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...“Are China’s subsidies kindling a trade war?” The front-page teaser for your Big Read feature by Joe Leahy, James Kynge and Sun Yu piqued my interest (January 31)....
...But Li sold to Yu Pun-Hoi, a Beijing-friendly media baron. Xiong says he suspects that Li sold to Yu to ingratiate himself and improve his chances of becoming a conduit for Wall Street in China....
...Chen Ling-yang, a magazine editor and doctoral student of Taiwanese history, was born in 1991, the year Taiwan conducted its first free national-level elections....
...Tan Hooi Ling, co-founder of south-east Asia’s other superapp Grab, has said “hyper-localisation” is the key to creating new businesses in the region....
...The effort has led to the detention of tens of thousands of officials, including senior national leaders such as Zhou Yongkang, China’s former security chief, and Ling Jihua, a top aide to former president...
...“We were surprised to see such a big, rowdy crowd,” said Luo Ling, 31, who along with his wife attended the pool party. “People around us were . . . having the time of their lives.”...
...Wang Ling, a Moutai distributor in Beijing, said the liquor was a must-have at business banquets because it represented “a display of power”....
...The April 3rd Incident , by Yu Hua, translated by Allan H. Barr, Pantheon, RRP$25.95, 224 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...Outside the fairs and museums, visitors to Taipei should not miss Lin Li Ling’s (b1965) third solo show at Caves Art Center....
...Taiwan Association for Human Rights secretary-general Chiu E-ling said his interactions with Chinese activists were limited to the discussion of history and Taiwanese democracy....
...Her collection includes a personal portrait by Downtown and two Hermès bags personalised by Ling. Yu’s firm is sponsoring this year’s FIGAF, and she hopes she may take the fair abroad....
...Outbound investment has fallen back to a reasonable range,” said Yan Ling, economist at China Merchants Securities in Beijing....
...Zhang Yu, head of international research at Minsheng Securities in Beijing, warned that the currency’s January gains may be shortlived....
...The conductor Long Yu, who hosted Stern’s return to China for the 20th anniversary of his groundbreaking 1979 tour (commemorated in the Oscar-winning documentary From Mao to Mozart), fulfilled his own longtime...
...Mr Yu’s younger brother, Yu Zhengsheng, is now a member of the seven-man Politburo Standing Committee, the highest political body in China....
...Additional reporting by Gu Yu Wang Dan: ‘Sooner or later the young generation will stand up to fight’ Wang Dan’s Google Plus profile speaks volumes....
...Though occasionally monotonous in its lyricism, neither Chan’s melodies nor the cast’s delivery got much in the way of librettist Yan Yu’s text....
...Ling Jihua, a top official who has been engulfed in scandal since he allegedly covered up a car crash in which his son died in a Ferrari last year, found this out earlier in the week when delegates voted...
...Despite strong performances from Orion Lee and Ka-Ling Cheung we don’t really get close to the protagonists and their changing thoughts and feelings, while the characters of both the daughter and her grandma...
...Back in 2003, when conductor Long Yu assumed the GSO’s music directorship, he inherited a rough-cut gem....
...Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling, given to the US after Richard Nixon’s 1972 visit, were harbingers of Beijing’s desire to extricate itself from international isolation....
...Ms Ling’s sister made a provocative undercover documentary on North Korea in 2006, firing speculation that North Korean agents may have been after revenge....
...Additional reporting by Chen Yu-ting...
...But later that night, in our hotel room, she asked me about Ling Ling, an 18-year-old orphan, blind in one eye, who had never been adopted and has since acted as unofficial “mother” to many of the younger...
...Wang Yu-theng, signed the contract,” the report said....
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