Cheng Li-wun. Photo: Zhu He/China News Service/IC photo Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of Taiwan’s main opposition Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang, will lead a delegation to the Chinese mainland in early April at the invitation of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee. Cheng will visit the province of Jiangsu and the municipalities...
Cheng Li-wun. Photo: Zhu He/China News Service/IC photo Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of Taiwan’s main opposition Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang, will lead a delegation to the Chinese mainland in early April at the invitation of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee. Cheng will visit the province of Jiangsu and the municipalities of Shanghai and Beijing from April 7 to 12, according to an announcement Monday by Song Tao, director of the Taiwan Work Office of the CPC Central Committee. As reported by the state-run Xinhua News Agency, Song noted that Cheng had repeatedly expressed a desire to visit the mainland since taking office, adding that both sides will communicate to make proper arrangements.
Guo Xudong A former Chinese securities regulator once dubbed the “Iron Lady” of IPO approvals is facing prosecution for alleged bribery and serious duty-related violations, as Beijing intensifies scrutiny of ties between regulators and the companies they oversee. Guo Xudong, a former official at the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), has been transferred for prosecution, the country’s ...
Guo Xudong A former Chinese securities regulator once dubbed the “Iron Lady” of IPO approvals is facing prosecution for alleged bribery and serious duty-related violations, as Beijing intensifies scrutiny of ties between regulators and the companies they oversee. Guo Xudong, a former official at the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), has been transferred for prosecution, the country’s top anti-graft agency said Friday.
Are you planning to retire around the age of 62? If so, you won't be alone. According to the 2024 MassMutual Retirement Happiness Study, both retirees and pre-retirees see the age of 63 as a perfect retirement age -- and the average actual retirement age is very close to that, at 62. (It's probably not coincidental that 62 is also the earliest age at which you can claim your Social Security benefi...
Are you planning to retire around the age of 62? If so, you won't be alone. According to the 2024 MassMutual Retirement Happiness Study, both retirees and pre-retirees see the age of 63 as a perfect retirement age -- and the average actual retirement age is very close to that, at 62. (It's probably not coincidental that 62 is also the earliest age at which you can claim your Social Security benefits.) But should you join this crowd and retire at or around 62? There are some good reasons to think twice before doing so. Here are some. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
Wei Li, global chief investment strategist at BlackRock, discusses her neutral stance on the overall direction of equities and how the conflict in the Middle East is prompting a thematic approach. (Source: Bloomberg)
Wei Li, global chief investment strategist at BlackRock, discusses her neutral stance on the overall direction of equities and how the conflict in the Middle East is prompting a thematic approach. (Source: Bloomberg)
Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool Elgar’s more-tea-vicar salon Victoriana sat primly beside Simpson’s cataclysmic celebration of occultism, while Sibelius’s climactic payoff needed a bigger buildup Elgar’s much-loved Serenade for Strings was given its unofficial 1892 premiere by the amateurs of the Worcester Ladies’ Orchestral Class. The perfect piece of salon Victoriana, it was an ideal more-tea-vicar...
Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool Elgar’s more-tea-vicar salon Victoriana sat primly beside Simpson’s cataclysmic celebration of occultism, while Sibelius’s climactic payoff needed a bigger buildup Elgar’s much-loved Serenade for Strings was given its unofficial 1892 premiere by the amateurs of the Worcester Ladies’ Orchestral Class. The perfect piece of salon Victoriana, it was an ideal more-tea-vicar, bone-china-and-bread-and-butter scene-setter for the cataclysmic eruptions of Mark Simpson’s The Immortal. Inspired by Victorian occultism, Simpson’s 2015 oratorio invites its audience to a Victorian seance. Texts collated by Melanie Challenger represent the scattered anxieties, pleas and nonsense of the automatic writing produced by mediums of the time. Against these are set the words of Frederic Myers: founder of the Society for Psychical Research, obsessed with the afterlife since the suicide of his childhood sweetheart. Continue reading...