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...Back then its founder, Hui Ka Yan, still seemed hopeful he could save the world’s most indebted developer....
...Earlier this month, JPMorgan analysts Haibin Zhu, Grace Ng, Tingting Ge and Ji Yan published a fascinating deep-dive into the subject, which we have finally digested....
...“Lenders dislike prepayments,” said Yan. “If prepayment surges too much, they’ll fail to achieve the annual lending target set by regulators.”...
...Chaoping Zhu, strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management, said the cut reflected the government’s desire “to reach a balance between short-term stability and long-term reforms”....
...“They are trying to develop these . . . next-generation vaccines because with the first-generation vaccine, a booster injection must be done and might have to be done regularly,” said Jin Dong-yan, a virologist...
...Despite the state’s warnings and the threat of not being able to come back, Zhu, a delivery driver in Shanghai in his 20s, is one of those risking the trip after another year separated from his family —...
...Undeterred by the recent stormy protests in Hong Kong, Mr Xi has sought party solidarity by resurrecting Yan’an Rectification, a 1930s and 1940s Communist party ideological movement....
...Mr Yan still intends to marry someday, but he is growing concerned about China’s housing market....
...“We sold more than 20 flats last month, all bought by Chinese,” said Fame Zhu, an agent in Bangkok. Mr Zhu said his sales have increased faster than ever recently....
...His mother, Li Yan, said she wanted her son to “experience different cultures and forms of education”. She herself has never left China....
..., who has taken Zhu Qingfang’s place as village chief....
...Ms Yan believes compromise is inevitable as China seeks to wean itself from off-budget financing amid slowing growth....
...And the dancers — from the ardent movie star-handsome lead, Ma Xiaodong, and his elegant Liniang, Zhu Yan, to the droves of demons and fairies — made the most of everything they were handed....
...“The [forced] Point Piper sale scared investors,” says Michael Zhu, a real estate agent with House 18, which sells high-end property to Chinese buyers....
...This doesn’t happen every day,” said Zhu Ning, vice-dean at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance at Jiaotong University....
...Additional reporting by Julie Zhu and Zhang Yan...
...Additional reporting by Zhang Yan, Mitsuko Matsutani, Tae-jun Kang, Julie Zhu and Kathrin Hille...
...“The central bank’s policy to aid the market is having an impact,” said Yan Yuejin, researcher at E-house China R&D Institute, a Communist party-linked research organisation....
...“Overall the adjustment process continues, but the situation looks better than it did in the middle of the year,” said Zhu Haibin, chief China economist for JPMorgan, who forecasts that from peak to trough...
...Don’t take my word for it: this is the conclusion of three US-based academics, Campbell Harvey, Yan Liu and Heqing Zhu....
...Additional reporting by Zhang Yan...
...Additional reporting by Julie Zhu @AsiaNewsDemetri...
...I donned the mustard yellow uniform of a Japanese soldier or guizi (devil) and Yan put on the drab grey fatigues of a balu or Eighth Route Army soldier....
...Additional reporting by Zhang Yan, Julie Zhu, Tom Mitchell and Gabriel Wildau...
...Apple Daily said the ICAC had visited the offices of Lee Cheuk-yan, the Labour party chairman who has acknowledged receiving donations from Mr Lai....
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