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Diners who found themselves in London with a yearning for northern Chinese food used to have a hard time, given that the vast majority of Chinese restaurants in the British capital - run by southerners from Guangdong and Hong Kong - served mediocre approximations of it at best. The opening of Ba Shan, in Soho's Romilly Street, will therefore please purists...
...other marginal customers were denied further credit. To strengthen the bank's financial position even more, Sands raised $2.7 billion in capital through a December share sale, raising the bank's key "tier one" capital ratio to 10.1%. (An 8% ratio is considered healthy.) Jaspal Singh Bindra, StanChart's Hong Kong - based CEO for Asia, says that previous downturns like the 1997 Asian crisis made management especially wary of financial-system turmoil. "We learned that when there is a market problem, it spreads from a problem to a crisis very quickly," Bindra says...
NORTH POINT, Hong Kong — Eels swim in Styrafoam boxes, astonished dead fish shine in rows next to blocks of pink-white flesh, silver heads. A live fish flails on the counter. There are clams in purple shells, small octopi, and other sea creatures already mashed into balls for soup. Lengths of meat dangle in butcher shops, knuckled feet still attached, shoppers’ chattering punctuated by cleaver’s thud...
...except for the occasional van and the double-decker tram that winds down Chun Yeung Street, stopping at 7-11 at one end and the footbridge at the other. When I get back to my apartment at night, the market is closing down. The ground is usually wet, from Hong Kong summer rains or from hosing fish pieces and meat trimmings into the gutter...
...realizes the pavilion's title - It's Not You, It's Me - may come across as brash, but "It's about us, the U.A.E., and it's unapologetic," she says. "Like it or love it, this is who we are." Many cities that began life as mercantile enclaves - Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai - have gone on to develop thriving cultural scenes. There's no reason Dubai can't flaunt its newfound creative talent...