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...Apple’s board of directors has nine members including chief executive Tim Cook and chair Art Levison....
...Torrey Peters’ UK book tour begins in London on 20 May; she will be in conversation with the British trans writer Shon Faye Megan Nolan Photographed in London by Antonia Adomako Such is the gut-punching...
...A decade ago, Guo’s Fosun along with conglomerates HNA, Dalian Wanda, CEFC and Anbang drove an explosion in offshore Chinese investment but most were undone after President Xi Jinping called time on the...
...The reader doesn’t have to be told any more about that can opener: in it are held all the dinners Davy’s mother would never cook....
...With the help of stylist Dustin Byrd, Brittany wore a Leanne Marshall Nolina top and Claire La Faye trousers paired with Chloé shoes....
...The beloved toastmaker in question was Slater’s mother, who was such a terrible cook that she even burnt the tins she’d warm in a saucepan (before opening them) for the day’s dinner: whereupon, with great...
...Faye Dunaway in Eyes of Laura Mars is so very stylish, chic and sexy in the most glorious way: only the ‘70s could create a character like that....
...HNA and Wanda have scrambled to unload their earlier acquisitions, while Anbang was nationalised and its founder jailed. Fosun seems to have been the least scathed by the campaign....
...The station master (Ron Cook, very funny) bustles about, pinning up timetables and fussing about regulations, but his significance has gone....
...An object I would never part with is my watercolour of a shell from one of Captain Cook’s South Sea voyages from Ursus Books in New York....
...Some are more inventive than others: for instance, property conglomerate Wanda built a tourism village in Guizhou where foreigners can apply to be mayor for a week....
...When Skye Gyngell comes in to cook an intimate dinner at the 18-seat table, you will be able to consume her interview if not the food....
...It will also recreate the store’s famed window displays, with Faye McLeod (the visual creative director at Louis Vuitton), to create digital “storefront” windows....
...Cook has worked at the industrial conglomerate since 2001. Yves Romestan has joined French PR agency ComCorp as an executive vice-president....
...(Bloomberg) China’s pile of debt DD has been tracking the high leverage at companies such as HNA and Dalian Wanda....
...It will feature an aboriginal village as well as shows based on the arrival of James Cook in Australia and the “Mystic Orient”, which will display the ancient culture of China and Southeast Asia....
...Both Disney and Wanda should also benefit from the government’s plans to create more national holidays and high-speed rail lines, says Reto Wilhelm, general manager for the Chinese arm of the Thomas Cook...
...Among the new projects is Vista Tower, a 93-storey condo and hotel building created as part of a joint venture between Chinese developer Dalian Wanda and Chicago’s Magellan Development....
...Airdine.com links visitors to home cooks around Sweden, who can specify their expertise in everything from traditional cooking to vegan feasts....
...And an arm of Citic, the Chinese state-owned group, has committed $125m to a venture run by Dick Cook, a former Walt Disney executive. Certainly, the economic fundamentals make sense....
...Fosun also bought 5 per cent of Thomas Cook and promised to launch a fund to invest in hotels managed by the holiday company. Dalian Wanda has promised to build a series of luxury hotels overseas....
...To this end, Wanda recently tied up with Baidu and Tencent, two of China’s biggest internet companies....
...Michael Palin, 71, a founding member of the Monty Python comedy group, has acted in films including A Fish Called Wanda and is known for his travel documentaries and books....
...Similarly, Linda Cook’s sudden departure from Royal Dutch Shell and Vivienne Cox’s exit from BP in close succession in 2009 stood out because, unusually, they had both reached the highest ranks of the male-dominated...
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