Huangpu is a district of pigeon fanciers and the skies over Shanghai have seen birds racing back to their coops for the best part of a century. Words and pictures by Jonathan Browning.
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May 23, 2011
With the dust still settling, a phoenix has been born from AIG’s ashes. General insurance company AIU Holdings was born in the wreckage of its parent. Vice chairman of the new firm hoping to put some distance between it and the AIG past.
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