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...Hui Ka Yan, the billionaire founder of the group, remains an executive director after stepping down as chair last year....
...“The purpose of the major is to train thought police to brainwash the entire population,” said Ming Xia, a political-science professor at the City University of New York....
...Together with his equally zealous lover, Xia Hongmei, Gao Aijun brings the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s to his sleepy home town in provincial China....
...The distinction does not mean Mr Xi is necessarily less powerful, according to Cai Xia, a retired professor from Beijing’s Central Party School....
...“Our sales are not really slowing,” said chairman and chief executive Yan Jianguo....
...Making it a success will take time, even decades. ——————————————- Additional reporting by Zhang Yan...
...Additional reporting by Zhang Yan...
...With additional reporting by Zhang Yan...
...Additional reporting by Zhang Yan ——————————————- Letter in response to this report: Hidden costs of overseas degrees / From Mr Paul Surtees...
...The Xia dynasty met a similar fate: its last emperor doted on his concubine Jie, who used to throw parties with pools of wine so big that guests could row across them....
...Yan Bo, 25, a vegetable oil trader at a local bank, says he is “too Chinese” to lunch at McDonald’s. “Last year I was very busy and I ate McDonald’s five times in one week,” he says ruefully....
...“There is no doubt that China is on its way to further tightening,” said Danny Yan, of Taifook Asset Management. “Food inflation in China is getting out of control....
...“People can see the progress of the party,” says Xia Jianming, the school’s director general. “This [setting] is a kind of harmony....
...Xia Xing’s “Perfume in February” was auctioned twice without explanation. Computer errors caused confusion during bidding more than once....
...It’s something Chinese gallery-goers expect to find, the gallerist Tamsin Roberts told me over gong bao chicken, silken spiced tofu, lotus root, bamboo shoots and heavenly greens at Tian Xia Yan, a humming...
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