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...Crane's Nest - rescues the two-story property from ignoble obscurity. It has been operating as a "love motel" catering to amorous couples looking to rent a room for an hour for a romantic tryst. Last year, the home's owner, Chinese real estate tycoon and philanthropist Yu Panglin, announced plans to sell it for up to $13 million so he could donate the proceeds to victims of the Sichuan earthquake. But that caused an uproar among Bruce Lee fans, who feared a new owner would bring in the wrecking balls...
...hardly the biggest charitable sum that China has seen. Property magnate Zhu Mengyi has given away $160 million in the past five years (and the octogenarian entrepreneur Yu Pengnian has set aside well over twice that for the provision of cataract operations). But the One Foundation is not about billionaires. It is about a celebrity who has forsworn a pleasant life of premieres and parties, and the ordinary people who support him with their pennies. It is for them, perhaps, that Li places an almost neurotic stress on the One Foundation's "transparency" and "professionalism." He says he wants...
...time, she said. “I think that it was definitely harder to have fun,” she said. Others said they found little negative impact. “I wasn’t even aware that there were restrictions in place,” said Dian Yu ’11, another member of Cabot House. Administrators said that preserving the Harvard-Yale experience while simultaneously creating a safer game environment was the chief motive behind the changes. Despite a lower turnout perhaps attributable to the bitter cold, McCoy called the 2008 match a success...
...latest candidate for such a fall is Wong Kwong Yu, 39, the chairman of mainland electronics retailing giant Gome. Wong, named by the Hurun Report last month as China's richest man with an estimated net worth of $6.3 billion, was detained last week on suspicion of fraud, Chinese media reported. According to a report in the financial magazine Caijing, Wong (his name is also spelled Huang Guangyu) is being investigated for manipulating the share prices of Shanghai-listed Shandong Jintai Group, a medical company controlled by his brother, Wong Chung-yam. (See pictures of what money...
...negative voices in Allston ring loud but they also ring few,” Yu said. “The majority of the community is excited about the benefit from this presence...