Word: jades
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...wealthy Western and Eastern collectors seeking to decorate their SoHo lofts and Shanghai penthouses with everything from ancient Buddha heads to Khmer sculptures. During art auctions in London this summer, two of the brightest sales were of prized Asian objects, both of them legitimately acquired: a Chinese Qianlong-era jade vase from a private collection that went for $280,000 at Bonham's and a calligraphy-brush washer from the Southern Song dynasty that sold for an astounding $1.2 million at Sotheby...
Stephen E. Dewey ’07 and Jade F. Jurdi ’07, roommates who attended Politics Day, joked that even though their Wigglesworth common room is divided politically, they will both join the IOP because of its renowned reputation...
...farang," he tells us, using the Thai word for foreigner. "Would you be sorry about a sunset?" Jitpleecheep is also half American and half Thai, which makes him uniquely qualified to understand both the tourists lured by the promise of sex, money, drugs and contraband jade and the Thai nationals who make sure they pay dearly for Bangkok's many pleasures...
...dark room off a dirt lot, a child leafs through the laminated pages of a picture album. There's jade green grass and a white paneled house and a little blond girl smiling. There's a big minivan and a bigger play set. There's a countertop completely covered with food. "This is a very nice place," Emmanuel Williams, 10, says in a quiet voice. "I would like to go to this place." From the point of view of an orphan in Liberia, suburban America looks like paradise. But for Emmanuel, it is a paradise beyond reach...
...were spotted at ICAC offices and were thought to be among the 29 other show-biz folk brought in for questioning. It appears that record companies may have paid off TVB personnel in exchange for gaining top placement for particular artists on the network's weekly music-chart show, Jade Solid Gold, which puts singers on the inside track for TVB's annual award ceremony. Juno Mak, who appeared numerous times on Jade Solid Gold, won one TVB award this year despite a decidedly hostile reaction from the award ceremony's in-house audience. TVB declined to comment to TIME...