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...The ministry said on Thursday that Lan Fo’an will succeed Liu Kun as its party secretary and is soon expected to become finance minister, a role still held by Liu, according to people familiar with the matter...
...Another person familiar with the matter said Lan’s connection with Liu would stand him in good stead with his new boss, China’s economic policy chief vice-premier He Lifeng....
...Additional reporting by Wenjie Ding and Nian Liu in Beijing...
...In that situation people will short the renminbi at all costs,” Liu said....
...Additional reporting by Tom Mitchell in Singapore and Xinning Liu in Beijing...
...So is lobster — if it is wild not farmed, as is probably the case in the Yu Zhi Lan restaurant. Sea cucumber is also under threat....
...Yu Zhi, an analyst at consultancy Yanglee, said: “We are seeing the bursting of a bubble that has been under pressure for many years.”...
...Hundreds of demonstrators, some clad in creative, protest-themed costumes, marched through the city’s financial district to Lan Kwai Fong, a nightlife area known for its raucous Halloween parties before...
...Yu Zhi Lan is located in a modest house in a side-street in Shanghai’s former French Concession. There is no sign outside to tell you that you have arrived....
...The Chinese are big on anniversaries and the centennial of the May 4th Movement is a big deal indeed,” said Kin-ming Liu, a senior Hong Kong-based journalist and editor....
...Luo Lan, from Analysys Enfodesk, a Beijing-based internet consultancy, said the case for a subscription-based service has yet to be proven....
...The kitchen at Yu Zhi Lan is an immaculate, galley-like space, sleek with stainless steel....
...The company, Tong Tai Sheng, was a grocer and money-lender that operated in the small town of Da Liu....
...Business people-cum-poetry aficionados attending included investment guru Wang Chaoyong, billionaire activist Wang Gongquan and restaurateur Zhang Lan....
...Banks currently carry about 2 per cent of their deposits as excess reserves and Mr Liu forecast that this could fall to 1 per cent....
...“But a city heading towards hyper-congestion is often like a patient not wanting to take the tough dose of medicine until the illness becomes too serious,” according to Liu Zhi, an infrastructure specialist...
...“I bet many people in the west hope that will happen to give you another pretext for demonizing China,” said Liu Jun, an engineering student, on his QQ instant messaging group....
...Li was approaching 60 and was bitter because he felt he was being sidelined by his colleagues and his boss, Zhang Zhi’an, Communist party secretary of Yingquan District and the man who oversaw the building...
...Take, for example, liu, which means to pre-cook pieces of food in oil or water and then marry them with a sauce that has been prepared separately: how to describe this succinctly in English?...
...His [Chen’s] ‘homecoming’ can only hurt Ma Ying-jeou [KMT presidential candidate] in the election because it highlights that the KMT has not dealt with its authoritarian legacy properly,” says Cheng Chin-lan...
...However political critic Liu Xiaobo and Reporters Without Borders wrote that an earlier jailing of Li Zhi, a Chinese dissident, showed Yahoo been cooperating closely with authorities as early as 2003....
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