Word: kwok
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...pianist Lang Lang will make a video appearance. The musicians will rehearse the program during a classical-music summit at Carnegie Hall from April 12 through 15. They've already had a chance to study the repertory in online master classes hosted by professionals like Maxine Kwok-Adams, a violinist with the London Symphony Orchestra, who offers bowing tips for the Tan Dun piece...
...newer strains of the virus spread around the region. A new study by University of Hong Kong microbiologists of a virus outbreak earlier this year found that chickens that had been vaccinated against the H5 virus had only one-quarter as many antibodies as those vaccinated in 2001. Yuen Kwok-yung, head of the University's microbiology department and an expert on avian flu, warned recently that the vaccine may be approaching total failure...
...evolving, $2.2 trillion U.S. plan to bail out its finance and banking system will prove effective. For those reasons, some see flightiness reigning in stock markets for the foreseeable future. "I expect volatility to continue for some time as long as confidence hasn't been restored," says Matthew Kwok, head of research at Hong Kong's Tanrich Securities. "Sentiments are quite pessimistic...
...admiring Hendra (who is better known simply by his first name) joined Sudjojono in the cultural arm of the PKI, the Institute of People's Culture, referred to by its Indonesian acronym LEKRA. Sudjojono was to become its leader. "In Asia, art was integrated into nationalist movements," says Kwok. "Sudjojono was in the forefront of this...
...rendered in art," says Ahmad Mashadi, head of the Museum of the National University of Singapore Centre for the Arts. In fact, by quitting LEKRA early, Sudjojono escaped the punishment that Suharto was to mete out to leftist artists, and became the most prominent figure of what Kwok calls "the more complex visual terrain in the 1970s...