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...The People’s Bank of China reiterated its criticism of Hui Ka Yan for Evergrande’s woes again in October and early December....
...“We try to strike a balance [in admissions] even though we could fill an entire class with students from the mainland,” says Tam Kar Yan, dean of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s business...
...“By nature, companies like Bytedance are more sensitive . . . because China controls videos more rigorously, and so government regulation and inspection of [these platforms] is stricter,” said Yan Zhanmeng...
...Chinese airline-to-finance conglomerate HNA Group said that co-chairman Chen Feng would absorb the duties of his colleague Wang Jian, who died in a fall in France this week, but left unanswered the question...
...One of them, Gao Yan, was driven to suicide, according to her friends. The professor was only lightly fined at the time but was fired this month from his positions at two other Chinese universities....
...Yang Yan’s 12-year old son Chen Zirui spends more than seven hours a week outside the school day doing classes in Chinese writing, maths and English....
...Shi Yan, director of Puchi, a comedy club in Shanghai also backed by Fun Factory, says the relative lack of resources for young comedians in China requires new techniques for cultivating talents....
...Nevertheless, sales did seem buoyant at both locations, and this despite local rumours of bad feng shui at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre....
...Vantone Holdings’ Feng Lun wrote: “A private tycoon once said, ‘In the eyes of a government official, we are nothing but cockroaches. If he wants to kill you, he kills you....
...Additional reporting by Zhang Yan...
...Gao Feng, head of the economic crimes investigation unit, says four senior Chinese executives from GSK have been held....
...Additional reporting by Zhang Yan ——————————————- Letter in response to this report: Hidden costs of overseas degrees / From Mr Paul Surtees...
...Not surprisingly, Yang Yan, the Diancha Tea sales manager agrees: “Just think about the Chinese food of today, always contaminated with heavy metals....
...Additional reporting by Yan Zhang...
...Feng Jianmei is one of those women....
...“People don’t want to put their money in a bank,” explains Zhu Yan’an, a store official. “The growth in gold bar sales has been really pronounced.”...
...His mockery of the authorities is unusual, says Peng Feng, a professor of aesthetics at Peking university....
...Neither Mr Chan nor members of Ms Wang’s family, now led by her brother Kung Yan-sum, appeared....
...On Tuesday a Hong Kong court awarded Ms Wang’s disputed fortune to her family charitable foundation, now headed by her brother Kung Yan-sum....
...Kung Yan-sum, Ms Wang’s brother and chairman of Chinachem, said in his first interview since the court case that the property company would go public as long as it benefited its charity works....
...Zhou Jin Feng is one of the clinic’s satisfied past clients (blackhead removal)....
...However, other prominent figures from the student movement, including Tong Yi and Xiong Yan, were allowed into Hong Kong to attend an academic conference on Tiananmen....
...But I was struck by how cut off from their surroundings she and her boat-mate Wang Feng seemed....
...‘The Legend Behind Lenovo: The Chinese IT Company That Dares To Succeed’, by Shan Feng and Janet Elfring, published in Hong Kong by Asia 2000...
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