Hints and tips:
...“So, the main newcomers in Dali are these two types [tang ping and lüju]. Their primary need is economic stability . . ....
...As we come to the high valley’s endpoint, beneath Lurcher’s Crag, where Aviemore comes into view, we get back into signal range and our phones ping....
...Ping. Ping. People look at their phones, their faces barely reacting. I check mine. The start has been delayed by an hour. No one grumbles. They’re not easily unsettled, this lot....
...Working It — Rewind a few years and shared offices were the realm of WeWork, filled with beer and ping pong tables. But employers have different demands post-pandemic....
...The only people allowed to let their phones ping are characters in 2000s romcoms conceived to illuminate the mores of the Tinder age....
...Zhong Zhengsheng, chief economist at Ping An Securities in Beijing, said China’s fiscal outlay would fall 12 per cent in December following many months of increases....
...My phone pings. “Can I have a spot out of the sun, towards the end of the bridge, away from the street food queues and preferably not near that cheese woman?”...
...“The rise of expensive private schools is making it harder for students of modest means, who mostly go to public schools, to move up the social ladder,” said Yang Ping, a Zhoukou-based office worker whose...
...Sun Yu says Xi Jinping made this mandatory. Sun Yu He’s giving a much smaller, sort of, say, authority to these private companies....
...HSBC chief executive Noel Quinn denied that Beijing is driving Ping An’s campaign to spin off its Asian business....
...The outdoor terrace, skirting the bar, is its antithesis: a glorious sun trap, lined by sofa-like banquette seating and dotted with tables crowned by large parasols....
...It has joined tang ping or “lie flat” as a new buzzword to capture their state of passivity in the face of a hopeless situation....
...But by late Tuesday, both Friedberg and Sun had resigned. Sun emailed colleagues to say he quit. Friedberg seemed to “disappear,” according to colleagues. Sun declined to comment....
...Upstairs, in the teen area, there are pinball machines and a ping pong table floating in a shallow pool. A skateboard ramp is apparently imminent....
...Investment titans dance until music stops under California sun The mood in the first few hours of last week’s Milken Conference was almost giddy....
...Now phones ping with reports from Ukraine. How should we wine-drinking western Europeans process events on the other side of our continent? What can we do for Ukrainians?...
...China Fortune Land Development, the Hebei-based developer that defaulted in February, for instance, has a creditor committee run by Ping An, China’s biggest insurer, which took a $3.2bn hit from the missed...
...Tall grass swayed on either side of me in the warmth of the afternoon sun. I was eight months pregnant with my second baby, and my partner and I were indulging in a child-free weekend in Norfolk....
...Part one opens with plucked strings, mellow-figured bass and a sense of urgency, the slower part two adds strums, finessed pauses and harmonic pings....
...Duan disappeared on September 5 2017, just six weeks after Sun was detained for alleged corruption....
...Tall grasses that glint silver in the sun; a lemon tree in fruit....
...Ran Ping has no plans to apply for a much-coveted hukou in the eastern Chinese city of Jinjiang, even though the local government has made the once tightly controlled household registration permit readily...
...The top two buyers in the past year have been China’s Ping An Insurance and China Cinda Asset Management....
...Kee Sun-Tuan, chief information officer in China at Standard Chartered, said: “Micro-expression technology acts like a lie-detector, using the camera in a phone to check people’s responses to questions and...
...He added that he was careful to lose to Mr Ren at ping-pong when they played in Hainan....
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