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...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...maritime solution US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Chinese President Hu Jintao today on a mission aimed partly at prevailing on China and Southeast Asian nations to use diplomacy instead of...
...feared that Islamabad would have warned Osama bin Laden of the US operation that killed the al-Qaeda leader, the FT reports....
...that killed the al-Qaeda leader, the FT reports....
...Dugong et al v Robert Gates, a lawsuit that has been playing out in a San Francisco court since 2003, gained fresh importance yesterday after Japan’s government agreed to build a replacement for the Futenma...
...Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States By Andrew Coe Oxford University Press, £15.99 The story of America’s love-hate relationship with Chinese food, from the first American...
...The market’s afternoon plummet came in spite of the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank’s move to double the size of their currency swap line. Smaller banks were among the biggest victims....
...In 1999 I had to stand before the membership and say if we trade 800,00 contracts a day financially we’ll be fine, because we had about $100m of debt....
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