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...everyday occurences that may seem insignificant to the casual observer. Inspired by the likes of Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan, Ritter paints evocative pictures of life. His lyrics are full of metaphor and are rich in description and imagery: “I keep you in a flower vase / With your fatalism and your crooked face...
...Whether Yang's Euro-Asia Agricultural (Holdings) has sinned remains unclear. But the company, which grows orchids and sells flower seedlings, is certainly being punished. Trading in Hong Kong-listed Euro-Asia Agricultural (Holdings) shares has been suspended since Sept. 30; the stock price had plummeted 86% since May, to less than $0.05. Since Yang's arrest, the company looks very much like it is imploding. Four top officials, including the vice-chairman, resigned in the last two weeks citing "personal reasons," according to company statements. The chief executive officer stepped down in September. The company also disclosed that...
...have been forced to act quickly before Yang's untidy affairs made him an international diplomatic problem. So what happens now? Wang Huizhong, a colleague of Yang's in the Sinuiju project office, insists everything "is still proceeding as planned." But it's a fair bet that the flower king's brief reign as chief of North Korea's special economic zone is coming...
...Lincoln Center, London's Barbican or, considering its harbor-side perch, the Sydney Opera House. Never mind the debate over what these animalized structures most resemble?hedgehog or scarab? Porcupine or mollusk??the real issue is whether Singapore can remake itself as the "Renaissance City" the government hopes will flower on the banks of the Malacca Straits...
...territory's financial underpinnings, reminds people of a discount coupon for laundry detergent. "It looks juvenile," says local merchant Jeremy Chia of the garish pink and purple banknote. Part of the problem is the inclusion of numerous anti-counterfeiting features, including embossed text and a watermarked bauhinia flower. "The abundance of security features may not be appropriate," admitted monetary authority chief executive Joseph Lam?especially since the note, worth about $1.28 U.S., is too small for counterfeiters to bother with. We suspect the bill's cryptic graphical motifs have a hidden meaning: the government is sending out subliminal messages...