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Thomas Kwok, vice chairman of Sun Hung Kai Properties, the city's second-largest developer, praised the policy as "market driven" and "in keeping with Hong Kong's status as the world's freest economy." But will this course correction put a floor under falling prices? Most analysts say no...
Some Americans may question the evidentiary standards used to determine just who is eligible for summary execution-by-drone, but such qualms are likely to be muted by claims that the Yemen strike eliminated an active al-Qaeda kingpin. The danger arises when such operations go awry, particularly on the...
A half hour later, Beck’s low-key stroll onto stage was met with a deserved crescendo of shouting. But without a word he turned down the mood by launching into a slew of downers, from the old surreal folkie “Pay No Mind�...
The evidence is all around us. China's surprising cooperation with the U.S. after Sept. 11. Beijing's muted response despite the Bush Administration's de facto upgrading of relations with Taiwan. An equally taciturn response to Japan dispatching naval forces to the Arabian Gulf, an expansion of Tokyo's...
For a man who's appalled by the intellectual corruption of consumer culture, John Malkovich sure likes clothes. In fact, being John Malkovich begins with the outfit. At an audience with journalists last week in the library of Les Salons France-Ameriques, a Second Empire mansion just off the Champs...