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...When it comes to the science prizes, the Nobel committee does at least wait until the value of the scientists’ work has earned wide acknowledgment before it distributes gongs....
...suspensions after the market closed on Tuesday — bringing the total to around 940, or more than a third of all listed firms on the two exchanges — with reports of even more suspensions before the opening gong...
...Additional reporting by Emma Dong...
...Nina Warren is superb as Scheherazade in an overly bustled dress, more Alice in Wonderland than Arabian Nights, while the rich bass of Dong-Jian Gong’s Kublai Khan emerges from a hot bundle of fur....
...Before Gong there was Zhai Zhenfeng, ex-director of the housing administration bureau in a district of Zhengzhou, with his 29 homes....
...Mok’s Carlo became a victim both of romantic rivalry with his father, Gong Dong-jian’s Philip II, and of the machinations of Yang Guang’s spurned Princess Eboli....
...Dong-Jian Gong and Yanan Li rise far above such dangers, singing with precision that feels fresh and spontaneous, creating a sense of ghostly borderlines, of half-life and hallucination....
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