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Ina Zhou, Bloomberg News Hong Kong one-hundred dollar banknotes and a U.S. one-hundred dollar banknote are arranged for a photograph in Hong Kong, China, on Monday, April 15, 2019. The Hong Kong dollars one-month historical volatility climbed to the highest since early February as traders were whiplashed by the currencys price swings amid declining liquidity. With the citys de facto central bank having spent $2.8 billion in March to defend the peg to the U.S. dollar,...

570 All Roads Lead North: Nepal’s Turn to China by Amish Raj Mulmi. Westland. Pages 320. Rs799 Book Title: All Roads Lead North: Nepal’s Turn to China Author: Amish Raj Mulmi Maj Gen Ashok K Mehta (Retd) Nepal, the small Himalayan nation wedged between two giant neighbours, China and India, has for more than a century sought to create sovereign space to act independently of India. Since 2015, stars got so re-aligned that Nepal decided to turn to China when two major Communist parties a...

Mainland-Hong Kong-Macao joint ventures strike gold in Greater Bay Area Xinhua | Updated: 2021-04-20 16:23 Share The Penha Hill in Macao, South China, Jan 11, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua] GUANGZHOU -- It takes just 3 patacas (about 38 US cents) and half an hour for Macao resident and apprentice lawyer Cheung Sze-yuen to travel to work in Zhuhai, a city in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. His employer, ZLF Law Office, is the first joint venture law fi...

2021-04-19 11:05:48 GMT2021-04-19 19:05:48(Beijing Time) Xinhua English GUANGZHOU, April 19 (Xinhua) -- It takes just 3 patacas (about 38 U.S. cents) and half an hour for Macao resident and apprentice lawyer Cheung Sze-yuen to travel to work in Zhuhai, a city in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA). His employer, ZLF Law Office, is the first joint venture law firm in the country comprised of law firms from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Macao. It is situated in an in...

Rescue, as well as traditional and popular songs. View here for three days. 7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Verdi’s Luisa Miller. Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Olesya Petrova, Piotr Beczala, Plácido Domingo, Alexander Vinogradov, and Dmitry Belosselskiy, conducted by Bertrand de Billy. Production by Elijah Moshinsky. From April 14, 2018. View here and for 24 hours. 8 pm ET: Seattle Opera presents The Big Opera Show. A journey through Seattle Operas upcoming season featuring special gues...

Taiwan in Time: The tragic ‘half mountains’ Taiwan-born Sung Fei-ju and Lee You-pang both returned to home after decades in China to help the KMT rebuild their homeland, but became victims of the 228 Incident By Han Cheung / Staff reporter March 01 to March 07 There was only one Taiwanese department head in Taiwan’s first post-World War II provincial government: Sung Fei-ju (宋斐如), who served as deputy director of the department of education. Sung, who lived in China for over...

CHINA / SOCIETY By In-Depth editor & reporter writing both features and breaking news about ethnics, religions, social issues and environment. Shan Jie in Jinggangshan Published: Dec 17, 2020 08:08 PM Updated: Feb 25, 2021 10:03 AM A group of local government employees experience the "Red Army path" during a training activity on December 10 in Yuantou village, Jinggangshan of East Chinas Jiangxi Province. Photo: Li Hao/GT An army of 200 people, in full grey-blue uniforms with red-starred ...

Taiwan in Time: A farcical peace A historical novel published last year helps dispel the narrative that there was no unrest on Penghu following the 228 Incident By Han Cheung / Staff reporter Feb. 22 to Feb. 28 For 73 years, an imposing gateway leading to the eastern shore of Makung (馬公) praised the people of Penghu for remaining peaceful during the 228 Incident According to a plaque on the structure, when Taiwan’s population rose up against the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) on Fe...

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"Clouds cannot block the sunshine for good," reads a message on a building facade facing my window. The pinkish-white characters are set against an amaranth background, like peach petals resting atop a meadow ablaze with violets. "Spring buds prevail when harsh winter ends."