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...“The wobble in the gilts market was a fire drill for everyone else,” says Steven Major, global head of fixed income research at HSBC....
...“We are eating humble pie, after the bond market served up a lesson in humility,” said HSBC’s head of bond research, Steven Major....
...“She’s nice because she’s rich,” replies Ki-taek’s own wife Chung-sook (Chang Hyae Jin)....
...Yet although the 64-year-old South Korean director Lee Chang-dong always has a fierce critical social commentary running in the background of his films, diatribes are not for him....
...Korean film-maker Lee Chang-dong made Poetry (2005), a poetic master-dish about age, love and art. But hasn’t he spilled too much uncertainty spice into Burning? Cannes liked it; some critics rave....
...Isabel Stevens interviews its 64-year-old director Lee Chang-dong, who, unlike his contemporaries, has resisted the lure of overseas work. (FT) Video of the day Should we be frightened of AI?...
...“They were focused on cutting costs to the exclusion of other aspects of the business,” says Steven Davidoff Solomon, a former corporate lawyer at Shearman & Sterling who is now a professor at the University...
...Japanese media reported that Kim Chang Son, chief of staff to Kim Jong Un, also travelled to Singapore to meet White House officials....
...Mr Lighthizer, a hardliner who advocates using tariffs against China, is taking over the trade negotiations from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin — a sign that the US will take a tougher stance....
...“For internet companies, the most popular model all over the world is advertising . . . so we are working on that,” Steven Chang, a Tencent vice-president, told the Financial Times....
...Cheong Seong-chang, an analyst at the Sejong Institute, said that South Korea needed to work with its allies to increase pressure on China to stop oil imports to North Korea....
...Once past Festival in Chang’an, an overture from the early 1980s brimming with boisterous orchestral clichés, the evening fell into a more clearly discernible language....
...Doesn’t the success of Freakonomics (2005), written by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, disprove his notion that economics is closed to new approaches?...
...Built by New York architect Steven Holl, it is a triumph of light and form....
...“Volume has been increasing because more Chinese corporates are setting up procurement vehicles and doing third-party trading in Singapore,” says Jacqueline Chang, regional head of commodities, Asia, at...
...Steven Andrews, a Beijing-based intellectual property rights lawyer at Chang Tsi & Partners, says: “Contract is often your strongest right....
...Tim Geithner’s book Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises and Jung Chang’s Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China. Do you read on paper or ebook? Kindle....
...Ha-Joon Chang, economist, author. South Korea. 6. Paul Collier, development economist. UK. 7. Richard Dawkins, biologist, author. UK. 8. Mario Draghi, economist. Italy. 9....
...… Ha-Joon Chang Author of ‘Economics: The User’s Guide’ (Pelican) An Officer and a Spy (Arrow) by Robert Harris is a remarkable fictionalisation of an extraordinary historical event, the Dreyfus Affair...
...And as the prize shortlists and review pages showed, serious novelists have clearly shed any inhibitions they might have once had about venturing into the speculative: David Mitchell, Howard Jacobson, Chang...
...TSMC “is best positioned in the secular paradigm shift to mobile,” according to Steven Pelayo, HSBC’s regional head of technology research....
...Adam Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s Son; The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry and The Necessary Angel by Wallace Stevens. What book changed your life?...
...That gave us Lee Chang-dong’s Poetry, a masterpiece of insight into generational schism and the poignancy of aging. Iran?...
...issues such as Beijing’s detention of mainland lawyers involved in human rights cases over the past year as well as for publishing controversial columns by respected dissident Chinese journalists like Chang...
...Chang Sun, a veteran of both Goldman and Morgan Stanley, is running Warburg Pincus’s operations in China....
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