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...Additional reporting by Thomas Hale...
...Brigety on Thursday said South Africa had placed arms on the Lady R, a vessel owned by a Russian fleet company, in December....
...Riester said the company’s local R&D department — made up of Chinese staff — had gained an edge over the German headquarters in the field of electric vehicles, where China is now the world’s leading producer...
...“It’s not recovered from last year,” said one shop assistant at Toys R Us, blaming a lack of tourists....
...When Toys R Us arrived in the country in the mid 1990s, it also initially eschewed collective bargaining....
...This is why we also do this R&D,” he said. “Because if we first talk to Germany to develop things, it takes too long.”...
...The play-out was funky and Wayne Shorter’s “Footprints” segued into the spiritual “Wade in the Water”....
...That idea might be supported by the data showing that growth was strong in areas like R&D, legal, advertising and market research, but there were falls in architectural, engineering, scientific and other...
...He tells me the UK government’s R&D budget is approaching £20bn a year, and that private-sector R&D now exceeds public money roughly threefold....
...PwC has resigned from the audits of developers Hopson Development, Shimao and Guangzhou R&F in recent months, stoking fears of an auditor exodus from the industry as groups face payments on their debts and...
...Two Wayne Shorter covers stand out for combining their acoustic jazz flavours with vocals and bustling modern beats....
...R&F is developing four London projects collectively worth about £2bn through its subsidiary R&F Properties....
...At one point, they had the largest collection of Klees, and the second-largest collection of Kandinskys after Solomon R Guggenheim....
...Additional reporting by Wang Xueqiao in Shanghai, Thomas Hale in Hong Kong and Hannah Kuchler in New York...
...Last week Guangzhou R&F, another developer, was placed in restrictive default by Fitch after extending maturities on its debts. Defaults are expected to continue this year....
...Aside from Evergrande, Guangzhou R&F has been one of the developers to come under the most scrutiny....
...R&F Properties, a subsidiary of Guangzhou R&F, and Hong Kong-listed developer CC Land that also owns the “Cheesegrater” tower, paid close to £500m in 2017 for a site in Nine Elms, south-west London, which...
...But I could see that discount retailing was where the puck was going,” said Arora, alluding to a famous quote from ice hockey star Wayne Gretzky....
...The bonds of Guangzhou R&F, another Chinese property developer, edged lower in Shanghai on Tuesday to about 60 per cent of their face value, following falls of more than 20 per cent a day earlier....
...This year it completed the $1.1bn purchase of a 70 per cent stake in a logistics park in south China developed by Guangzhou R&F, a real estate developer that this week came under severe pressure in bond...
...A sell-off in its bonds soon spread to other heavily leveraged developers, including Fantasia and Guangzhou R&F, whose bonds have fallen sharply in recent days....
...A frantic sell-off surrounding Evergrande’s debt and equity has shown signs of spreading to other developers, including Guangzhou R&F and Fantasia Group....
...Guangzhou R&F was downgraded by Moody’s on Friday over concerns it would have a tougher time issuing debt to settle old obligations, a process known as refinancing....
...Fears over refinancing have hit other developers with dollar debts, including Fantasia Group, which was downgraded last week, and Guangzhou R & F....
...Again”, while Lil Wayne has an impish singsong cameo on “I Heard You’re Married”....
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