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...Reynolds ended the membership structure, and Walker introduced new genres: sci-fi, fantasy, romance and YA....
...Here’s NAR’s head economist, Lawrence Yun, on Friday: Housing affordability continues to be a major challenge, as buyers are getting a double whammy: rising mortgage rates and sustained price increases....
...Anyway, on to Truss, who is not certain to win the leadership race but, ya know....
...For the government, that is a very big concern,” said Yun Jiang, a China expert and former policy adviser to the Australian government now with the Australian National University....
...“In the Chinese mind, India wants Tibet to be independent in order to be a buffer,” said Yun Sun, director of the China Program at the Stimson Centre in Washington....
...Most of the global chip developers and manufacturers will still have to side with the US, as American technologies still prevail in their products or services, said Su Tzu-yun, senior analyst at the Institute...
...Headed by Bai Ya, a colourful character in China’s tech scene, Youzan and others such as Weimob are doing a roaring trade....
...So finds this year’s Art Market Report on the country, written by Kejia Wu, a faculty member of Sotheby’s Institute of Art and a columnist for Financial Times Chinese....
...Young painters like Chen Yun, Lai Wei-Yu, Shih Yung-Chun, Sun Pei-Mao and Wang Guan-Jhen appreciate the symbiotic relationship between young artists and young collectors....
...ambitious meditation on music, time, age and ambition, it embraced their many collaborators — Terry Riley, Philip Glass; and from the wider world the throat singer Tanya Tagaq, intense; the pipa player Wu...
...As Ora might say, Shine Ya Light on the data. The £8.8m an hour figure derives from the GVA of the “creative industries” in 2013 — £76.9bn....
...As Liang Ya Pai pulls out a nautical map of the South China Sea, he points to a string of resource-rich islands claimed by both Hanoi and Beijing....
...The list of signatories includes foreign company executives such as Zhang Ya-Qin, the president of Microsoft’s R&D in Asia, and Charles Wu, an IBM Greater China vice president....
...Worldwide”, and lyrics such as: The Jedi, only use the Force if ya force me Shaolin What?...
...With cellphone aloft, RZA dedicated “Shimmy Shimmy Ya” to “our fallen soldier”, Ol’ Dirty Bastard (born Russell Jones, he died in 2004 of a drug overdose)....
...Mr Wu was not available for comment. Lin Yun-long, vice-president, declined to discuss the buy-out....
...Now, turning 70, Loach can hold up a golden frond and exclaim, “Ya boo” (though he wouldn’t say anything so indelicate), “world cinema likes me.”...
...Economists Mao Yushi and Wu Jinglian have both had research institutes closed, in Beijing and Shanghai respectively....
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