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...“I’m worried about this issue, that it could turn into another trade conflict between two of the most important trading partners,” says Wang Yong, professor at the School of International Studies in Peking...
...“When the Communist military didn’t have so much advanced equipment and so many ships yet, this was the rear,” Major General Tan Yong, commander of the Taitung Area Command, told me....
...For me, as I write, that includes a black cat in the sun, a line of ants, my two-year-old daughter at play and my mother-in-law with an immobilised left side after a stroke....
...Tae Yong-ho says he was 14 years old when he first began to comprehend the true cruelty of the songbun, Kim Il Sung’s class system....
...Civilisations, by Laurent Binet, translated by Sam Taylor, Harvill Secker, RRP£16.99/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$27, 320 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Forty Hands has a second location on the residential east coast, and a whole plethora of bottled and packaged takeaway potables, from cold brews to honey oat lattes, but the original, opened in 2010 on Yong...
...In Africa is Not a Country (Harvill Secker, April) Dipo Faloyin challenges us to recognise the vast diversity of a continent....
...“The family control will continue with no major changes in ownership structure for the time being,” said Chung Sun-seop, head of corporate analysis group Chaebul.com....
...Cho Yong-sun, an analyst at SK Securities, said uncertainty had risen after Baemin came under fire in April when it attempted to raise commission fees for restaurateurs....
...Chung Sun-seop, head of corporate analysis group Chaebul.com, said that prosecutors might have a tough time proving the allegations....
...The implications of scientific innovation for humanity have also captured the imagination of some of literature’s biggest names, including Kazuo Ishiguro, whose novel Klara and the Sun (Faber, March) imagines...
...The Sun on My Head , by Geovani Martins, translated by Julia Sanches, Faber, RRP£10.99/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$22 Martins’ literary debut — a collection of 13 short stories set in the favelas of...
...Members of South Korea’s business community, including Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong, lined up on Monday to pay tribute to Shin in Seoul....
...Cho Yong-sun, an analyst at SK Securities, said the takeover will help Delivery Hero grow its presence in Asia, but he cautioned the deal could still face hurdles from South Korean competition regulators...
...Afraid the sun will go down before he has picked enough, he strays outside the work zone — and gets shot: “Rybakov lay between the hummocks. He looked surprisingly small....
...His three children, including 51-year-old Lee Jae-yong, face a tax of Won9.8tn ($8.4bn)....
...Mr Kim said: “Everyone in the world should have 20 hours a day of electricity, instead of being able to get electricity only when the sun is shining.”...
...Since 2002, when billionaire Stanley Ho Hung-sun’s monopoly ended, US groups such as Las Vegas Sands, Wynn Resorts and MGM Resorts International have poured billions into the city state’s casinos....
...Cho Sun Hi’s tale was incredible. She had been in the nearby North Korean embassy, where she lived with her husband, when a band of commandos broke in and began to beat residents....
...Last week China Molybdenum, a miner backed by Chinese billionaire Yu Yong, spent $1.4bn to strengthen its control over a giant copper and cobalt mine in the DRC, following its initial purchase of a majority...
...Elliott narrowly lost the battle to block that deal after Seoul’s National Pension Service, a key shareholder of Samsung C&T, came out in support of it, allowing Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong to strengthen his...
...Kim Sun-sig, senior vice-president, said Samsung would “actively co-operate” with the mediation committee, adding: “Only the complete resolution of the problem would be a consolation to the sickened workers...
...Lee Jae-yong was released after a South Korean appeals court halved the billionaire heir’s sentence to two-and-a-half years and suspended it for four years, allowing him to walk free immediately....
...“They sent six policemen to break down my door,” Sun Wenguang told the programme host before the line went dead. Mr Sun could not be reached for comment on Friday. Additional reporting by Xinning Liu...
...The global technology group on Friday appointed Kim Sun-uk to its board, only its second woman board member in its 49-year history....
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