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...Kai Wegner, the centre-right mayor of Berlin, demanded an investigation into the whole gala evening. German sensitivity on the subject of Israel is understandable....
...The great-grandson of the late dictator Chiang Kai-shek has been elected mayor of Taipei, giving a much-needed boost to the Kuomintang, Taiwan’s struggling opposition party....
...His leading in-party opponent, Arthur Vandenberg — the Mitt Romney, or perhaps John McCain, of his time — spoke up for the internationalist wing....
...Hong Kong developers such as Henderson Land and Sun Hung Kai Properties rely on rent from companies that used to cater to mainland Chinese shoppers....
...The Kwoks of Sun Hung Kai are the region’s second-richest family, according to a 2020 Bloomberg survey....
...Just as Treasury staff may have to move to Darlington, so Kai Havertz may have to go to Burnley....
...Champion water athletes Kai Lenny, Annie Reickert and Robby Naish are all converts – their Instagram accounts show them clearing the water and performing a series of flips and twists mid-air....
...I enjoyed the comforting but delicate crab broth, with braised endives and bottarga, beautifully cooked ray wings with capers, and a risotto with celery, Parmesan and walnuts....
...Lee Wing-chun, a retiree in his 70s, wants to borrow HK$90,000 to leverage his HK$10,000 investment....
...The following month, Mr Meuthen had The Wing dissolved altogether....
...“Hong Kong is just like an ATM, you key in the password and you get the money,” Mr Tse said....
...Charlie’s son, Tse-ven (TV Soong), and his son-in-law Kung Hsiang-hsi (HH Kung), were both major figures under the Nationalist regime of 1927-49, each serving as prime minister and using family and political...
...Designed by Eero Saarinen (who died before it was completed), it was an expressionistic concrete sculpture evoking the wings of a great bird or some kind of alien spaceship, suggesting that flight was something...
...government for the escalation in violence, 74% the police and 41% the protesters “It is very unfair for anyone to put the blame on police officers for the current chaotic and panicked situation,” says John Tse...
...Shares in large Hong Kong-focused developers have fallen this year, with Henderson Land Development down almost 12 per cent, Sun Hun Kai 8 per cent, Wheelock 7 per cent and Great Eagle 5 per cent....
...Only now is the American economy beginning to renew its strength on the wings of President Donald Trump’s four-point growth plan: historic tax cuts, a wave of constructive deregulation, the unleashing of...
...One was with the venture capitalist Kai-Fu Lee, who launched Google in China before setting up his own investment firm....
...“2030 is too pessimistic,” says Kai-Fu Lee, a veteran of Microsoft Research and Google who now runs his own venture capital firm Sinovation Ventures in Beijing....
...Director So Wing Hoi had also resigned as executive director as of April 17, “for health reasons as he is still recovering from a recent scheduled heart surgery.”...
...So maybe they [think they] need to clip their wings a little,” adds Mr Brennan. In response, the tech companies are working directly on projects with the government....
...Li Wing Sang, who held 19 per cent of Tech Pro Technology before its shares fell 90 per cent last July, now holds just 8 per cent....
...position, Mr Nishimuro was strident in his criticism of listed subsidiaries that were more than 50 per cent owned by a listed parent, and encouraged companies to buy those subsidiaries back under their wings...
...When Chiang Kai-shek went to America, he described himself as “Generalissimo”. I wonder how a pope would describe his occupation....
...Today, says Siu Wing Chu, deputy managing director of Savills Shanghai, “Tomson Riviera is a trophy asset, similar to Number One Hyde Park [in London]”....
...Wing Hang and Chong Hing, two local independent banks, are both in talks with potential suitors as an environment of increasing regulatory costs and higher competitive pressure encourages owners to look...
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