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...“I always used to be known around the ward because I was the youngest there. But the other day I was sitting in chemo with a guy who must have been late 20s....
...Alex Chen, a technology industry worker who has begun conducting informal infection surveys of Beijing residents on WeChat, found that by Wednesday, 52 per cent of 150 respondents said they were positive...
...FT reporters, however, have found a sharp increase in activity at Beijing’s crematoriums and have witnessed bodies in hospital Covid wards....
...There were travel books that took readers through “wild Norway” or “joyful Russia”, or big game hunting, but also the brisk Bicycling for Ladies by the “wheelwoman” Maria E Ward....
...Margaret O’Hara, a trustee at patient group Long Covid Support, fell sick with Covid-19 in April 2020, after assisting on a critical care coronavirus ward....
...We stay only in the wards and corridors, hospital life hermetically sealed. With good reason....
...In one of his last posts, Mr Chen wrote about visiting makeshift wards in Wuhan being thrown up in the city’s shopping malls and stadiums....
...Robot developer TMiRob deployed 10 disinfection robots across wards in major hospitals in Wuhan. The start-up Antwork is using drones to deliver medical supplies in Zhejiang province....
...Chen Qiushi, a lawyer and citizen journalist, began posting videos from around Wuhan in which he showed long lines of weak, frustrated patients waiting to see doctors....
...Anning Chen, former chief executive of state-owned Chinese carmaker Chery, has been appointed to head Ford’s operations in the country, the FT reported....
...Chen Borshow, director-general of the Taipei economic and cultural office in Ho Chi Minh City, said more than 100 of the 4,000 odd Taiwanese businesses in the country had been attacked....
...An example is a manager in retail marketing whose perfectionism, combined with a demanding job in an insecure climate, resulted in him working late hours most nights to try to ward off his fear of making...
...The Westminster Choir contributes vitally, with members in traditional costumes (designed by Elizabeth Caitlin Ward) that include pointed hats with wide brims....
...An EU official sought to play down the meeting, saying that Brussels would wait to see what level of co-operation the Chinese would provide in an effort to ward off a formal trade complaint....
...Rabia Bhopal and Renee Chen, formerly with Standard & Poor’s and Macquarie Capital Securities, respectively, join as economists and investment strategists....
...Additional reporting by Gwen Chen in Beijing....
...Additional reporting by Gwen Chen in Beijing...
...China and Chen: China appears to have agreed that Chen Guangcheng, the blind legal activist at the heart of a diplomatic incident with the US, can apply to leave the country, reports the FT....
...Charlie Chen, Huawei’s head of marketing in the US, told the Financial Times last month that the company would not give up its US push. “It may take a long time....
...Additional reporting by Shirley Chen in Shanghai. To comment on this article, please e-mail magazineletters@ft.com...
...Even Theo Angelopoulos and Chen Kaige, those godfathers of modern art cinema, made us offers too easy to refuse....
...High-level figures from the western political and economic spheres …envy China’s superb performance …as well as “China’s spirit”– the kind of solid, unbreakable “Great Wall” at heart to ward off the financial...
...Unfortunately, Wu’s brilliant playing was undercut by lacklustre arrangements, from Chen Dawai’s unimaginative orchestration of Jin Melody to Chen Xinruo’s uneasy augmentation of Guo Wenjing’s Sounds of...
...It’s no accident that the only lasting relationship depicted is between Ming and Chen, who work opposing shifts....
...We see people in modern dress – everything from bikinis to gardening clothes (costumes by Elizabeth Caitlin Ward) – but don’t know who they are or why they feel the way they do....
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