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...Wolverhampton Wanderers chair Jeff Shi has sought to reassure fans that Fosun, the club’s Chinese owner, is not looking to exit....
...Most protesters come from Iraq’s Shia majority and analysts say their anti-Iranian message has taken Tehran’s Shi-ite leaders by surprise....
...A resumption of trade talks is “probably the best outcome we can expect,” Shi Yinhong of Renmin University had said before the G20....
...“But Trump doesn’t want to hear these things,” added Prof Shi. “He needs unprecedented concessions that are very specific and enforceable....
...They will wait and observe,” said Mr Shi. Japan welcomed the outcome in public....
...The surprise announcement, which came a fortnight after Mr Mnuchin said both sides were “putting the trade war on hold”, angered Chinese officials....
...“In the short run China faces a difficult situation,” said Shi Yinhong, a US expert at Renmin University in Beijing....
...“[With a rising stock market] it is not a surprise to see that Chinese equity funds have performed well,” Mr Chan said....
...Lebanon maintains a delicate sectarian balance after Sunnis, Shi’ites, Christians and Druze fought a civil war between 1975 and 1990, with factions often backed by regional rivals....
...Wang Yang, 62 Politburo member Mr Wang was a surprise addition to the politburo in 2007, when he was just 52, but failed to advance to the Politburo Standing Committee in 2012....
...But Jialong Shi, an analyst at Nomura, said cloud service revenue called “a negative surprise” increasing 103 per cent year-on-year, versus his estimate of 112 per cent....
...But to Tokyo’s surprise, Mr Wang sought to ease rather than exacerbate tensions during his visit....
...A surprise move by Vanguard to include onshore Chinese A-shares in its flagship emerging market fund will “put pressure” on other asset managers to follow suit....
...He won a part in the movie, Mei Shi Zhao Shi (Looking for Trouble), and was promised Rmb3,000 (then worth about $362). Yet, he never received any cash: the producers claimed to have “run out of money”....
...Decisive battles are rarely publicised in advance and so the early signals from the US military that there is soon to be a major battle for control of Mosul have understandably been greeted with a mixture of surprise...
...The iPhone 6’s later launch came as a surprise to local operators, who were angered by the issue....
...That someone would want to silence Rao’s opinions is hardly a surprise given his high profile and outspoken views....
...Already a wealthy country, South Korea’s reign as the strongest of the Next Eleven grouping of future world powers is no surprise....
...Translation: body parts that shouldn’t be exposed shouldn’t be exposed – especially to business functions, where Rogers thinks that surprise skin is taboo....
...Since March, there have been a number of surprises. Until then, creditors assumed that China Inc would bail out the ailing company “in the mysterious Chinese way,” says one creditor....
...both countries have air defence identification zones that cover the Diaoyu Islands and some areas are overlapping the possibility of a military confrontation escalating into conflict has increased,” said Shi...
...The demand is clearly there – 280,000 users from Singapore alone registered on Taobao last year, although demand can often present surprises....
...Every pundit we’ve read so far expects the 2013 growth target to be maintained at 7.5 per cent, but there may be some surprises....
...Sony, as it reported a surprise Y260bn full-year net loss, said last week the cost of lost production and sales was likely to cut Y150bn from its operating profit this financial year....
...Flynn’s book cleverly outpaces its neo-noir trappings and consistently surprises the reader. The Orphan Master’s Son , by Adam Johnson, Doubleday, RRP£18.99 Can a whole country be mad?...
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