Hints and tips:
...Lei Jun, head of phonemaker Xiaomi, is also serving for a third term....
...Qiu Jun, a teacher from Shenzhen who took a five-night trip to Macau, Zhongshan and Zhuhai, said the tough economy meant he was more restrained with his spending....
...The Varna gold medallist Fumi Kaneko set the bar chasteningly high, partnered by an elegant and attentive William Bracewell....
...Additional reporting by William Langley and Cheng Leng in Hong Kong and Nian Liu in Beijing...
...Jun Pang, policy and campaigns officer at the human rights group Liberty, described the events as “concerning” and said they had been “enabled and encouraged by the government’s wider, continued assault...
...Two weeks earlier, Lu Jun, the former head of SINO IC Capital, was detained by the anti-corruption body....
...The claims received prominent coverage in the People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist party’s Central Committee, which ran a story on comments made by Zhang Jun, China’s permanent envoy to...
...Zhang Jun, China’s representative at the UN, said the “so-called Xinjiang issue is completely a fabricated lie . . . to undermine China’s stability and obstruct China’s development”....
...The reports appeared after Zhang Jun, China’s permanent envoy to the UN, on Friday dismissed the US assertion that the biological laboratories allegations were “groundless”....
...Although exports between the UK and the EU have returned to pre-pandemic levels, this does not “mean that the UK is on track” though, said Professor Jun Du, co-author and professor of economics at Aston...
...Additional reporting by Guy Chazan in Berlin, Amy Kazmin in Rome, Aime Williams in Washington, William Langley in Hong Kong, Benjamin Parkin in Mumbai, Nic Fildes in Sydney and Antoni Slodkowski in Tokyo...
...Brexit in numbers This week’s chart comes courtesy of a new study by Professor Jun Du and research fellow Oleksandr Shepotylo at Aston University on the effects of trade frictions on the UK’s exports to...
...In the hours after the invasion started, Zhang Jun, China’s envoy to the UN, said the “door to a peaceful solution” was not yet fully shut and urged all parties to exercise restraint....
...Bethany Williams Founder, Bethany Williams Bethany Williams is a talented designer by any yardstick, but it is the social enterprise model she has built her business upon that won over the judges of this...
...Pharrell Williams has also adopted the golfing look, but he is an actual fan: his golf bag is custom-made by Hermès, and he once remarked that “golf is where sport and fashion come together”....
...Law firm Baker Botts hired Sian Williams as special counsel in the corporate department of its London office. She joins from Gibson Dunn....
...“It’s important for Didi to control the last mile of transportation,” said Li Jun, founder of tech news portal Zhulu....
...Here are the highlights: HNA disclosed that a non-profit organisation called the Hainan Cihang Charity Foundation now owned 29.5 per cent of the company — a stake that was until recently held by Guan Jun...
...Additional reporting by Jun-Youb Lee in Hong Kong...
...A third manager at the fund, William Tomita, has been exonerated after the SFC accepted that he was a junior member of the team acting on instructions and was not knowingly involved in the misconduct....
...The most bizarre segue has to be from faux Mahler to John Williams’ Jaws theme in the space of a few minutes....
...The BoJ’s grip on the market “represents nothing more or less than central bank financing of the fiscal deficit, and could ultimately lead to market turmoil”, says Jun Ishii of Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley...
...Indeed, Jun Takahashi of Undercover addressed the issue directly, with words and anagrams – God/Dog, Listen/Silent, Noise/Thought – splashed across sweatshirt tops with belled arms, leather A-line skirts...
...William Hague, Britain’s foreign secretary, told the BBC he was worried Syria was now “going to slide into a civil war”....
...“Comparisons with Iain Duncan Smith, William Hague or Michael Howard are well wide of the mark.”...
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