China's central bank chief Zhou Xiaochuan is a soft-spoken, scholarly bureaucrat who chooses his words and his occasions carefully.
But from now on, he will have to be even more...
China's central bank chief Zhou Xiaochuan is a soft-spoken, scholarly bureaucrat who chooses his words and his occasions carefully.
But from now on, he will have to be even more...
ON THE FACE of it, Alex Zhang lives an enviable life. At 30, he holds a master's degree from Tsinghua University, earns a comfortable salary as an engineer with a major firm, and has bought a...
GUSTAVO WONG CHUN-KIT, 22, was kicked out of school after he failed his Chinese exam in Form Six. But looking back, Mr Wong considers this a blessing. 'I never enjoyed studying the subjects in...
'Everything that I do, I work hard for, therefore I have a lot of confidence,' Matthew Ko Kwan-yin, TVB's first Mr Hong Kong, tells CitySeen in explaining why he deserves the title.
The most intriguing aspect of the monsoon session of Parliament that got under way this week will not be the debates or the bills or the antics of MPs throwing tantrums.
It is who is...
MAGIC, MUSIC AND PUPPETS
Celebrated Hong Kong magician and musician Harry Wong will present Made in Hong Kong with Harry Wong, a family entertainment combining music, puppetry and...
Life was once an endless tunnel of despair for Matthew Lui Yu-chun, whose rocky path in life went from his parents' divorce to his dropping out of school and becoming a triad member.
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo likes to portray herself as the mother of the nation. So imagine for a moment that she is your mother.
Universities in Guangdong are farming out jobless graduates to employment agencies to improve their graduate employment figures.
Students listed with employment agencies can be...
Bernard Reilly
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State Street Global Advisors
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