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...Zhang added that the group would not appeal against the decision....
...Additional reporting by Xinning Liu and Archie Zhang in Beijing...
...The partisan blogs on WeChat with the most reach are Republican leaning, according to research by Chi Zhang with Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, who describes the platform as “asymmetrically polarised...
...But his business profile inside China appears almost non-existent, with corporate databases showing only a role as “legal representative” of Beijing Tian Yi Hua Sheng Technology, a company with just Rmb2m...
...Five years ago Beijing-born bass Haojiang Tian launched a bold initiative: teach enough non-Chinese singers the repertory and perhaps China could rival Russia and eastern Europe on the world opera stage....
...“The [industrial robot] market really took off last year, when sales grew 53 per cent year on year, representing more than 25 per cent of the global market,” wrote Sean Tian and Anderson Chow, analysts at...
...On Valentine’s Day, Tian Huimin is marrying the man she met when she logged on to the company’s singles chatroom to ask if anyone could give her a lift home....
...Ella Zhang, a 30-year-old office worker in Shanghai, leads a comfortable life even though she makes a mere Rmb5,000/month. Ms Zhang dines out a dozen times a month and spends up to Rmb400 each time....
...The list includes the son of Xie Xuren, China’s former finance minister and current chairman of the $200bn National Council for Social Security Fund, and the son of Xiao Tian, deputy head of China’s sports...
...Under conductor Zhang Guoyong, the episodic structure of the first half unfolded in a near-seamless flow....
...One is on unreported ‘grey’ income by Professor Wang Xiaolu of the National Economic Research Institute; the other is on consumption underestimation by Professors Zhang Jun of Fudan University and Zhu Tian...
...“I thought the chancellor’s speech was logical,” said Zhang Shuo, a first-year international relations student....
The belief that the country’s consumption is too low is flawed, write Jun Zhang and Tian Zhu
...That is the intriguing claim by two academics, Jun Zhang and Tian Zhu, respectively of Fudan University and China Europe International Business School, who argue that consumption has been consistently underreported...
...Sir, Jun Zhang and Tian Zhu make useful points concerning understatement of Chinese consumption (“Abandon the myth of the reluctant Chinese shopper”, January 15)....
...Zhang speaks for many Chinese when she questions the logic of performing it in the vernacular....
...“We used to need two people, but now I can look after it myself and I have little to do,” said Mr Zhang, standing at a counter stacked with bathroom accessories....
...Zhang was found guilty of selling more than 600 tonnes of melamine-laced protein powder....
...Tian Long Ba Bu, a martial arts game, was responsible for more than 90 per cent of Changyou’s revenues last year and will have a longevity similar to World of Warcraft’s, in Mr Zhang’s opinion....
...Changyou – which draws all of its growth from its hugely popular Tian Long Ba Bu multiplayer online role-playing game – is only the third IPO on Nasdaq this year....
...part by the gap in their apparent affinities for the material, also played out on a smaller scale between soprano Yao Hong’s tentative Liu, whose voice bloomed only during her climactic aria, and bass Tian...
...We know, too, the last group of victims: those directors of the so-called Fifth Generation – Zhang Red Sorghum Yimou, Chen Farewell, My Concubine Kaige, Tian Horse Thief Zhuangzhuang – who could never win...
...Expertly conducted by Zhang Guoyong and directed by Lin Zhaohua, it drew maximum purchase on the minimal designs of Yi Liming, fragrant in the Chinese style....
...Caught in the middle is a grumpy China Netcom, which is now firmly in the grip of chairman Zhang Chunjiang and other career Chinese telecoms bureaucrats who don’t like the idea of PCCW’s core telecoms assets...
...said Edward Tian, Netcom's chief executive. The four operations are in the provinces of Jilin, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia and Shanxi....
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