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REUTERS: --Chinese people fly a kite with at the Great Wall on the outskirts of Beijing May 24,2003. Close to one thousand Chinese attended a kite flying event in an effort to mobilize support for the fight against severe acute respiratory syndrome(SARS). --A Chinese woman files ...
Not content to be mere property developers, the couple behind Soho China want to change the face of homes in China By Susan V. Lawrence/BEIJING NESTLING IN THE HILLS north of Beijing, the Commune by the Great Wall is the sort of project that's supposed to inspire gasps. But at ...
May 24,a volunteer flies a kite emblazoned "China Spirit" on the Great Wall. Now past the worst of the epidemic, Beijingers treat SARS with smiles. By choosing active, relaxed and humorous ways to fight the disease and encourage each other by words and actions, China shows the ...
A Chinese woman files a kite with letters reading "China Spirit" and "We Shall Overcome" at the Great wall on the outskirts of Beijing May 24,2003. Close to one thousand Chinese attended a kite flying event in an effort to mobilize support for the fight against severe acute ...
A small girl waves her hand at the top of a big drum before an event entitled "Let China's Spirit Fly High - Fly a Kite, Fight SARS." The event, held on Saturday at the Badaling section of the Great Wall, was organized to allow Beijingers an opportunity to fly kites at several ...
A woman flies a kite during an event in support of the fight against the SARS virus, on the Great Wall of China at Badaling, north of Beijing Saturday May 24, 2003. A few hundred gathered to fly kites at the launch of China Spirit, a campaign organized by business and artist ...
China's leading real estate developers, facing stricter mortgage regulations, are trying to mount a counter-attack against the central bank's housing-loan policy. "Any new policy aimed at regulating the real estate market must be implemented with caution, otherwise it will cause ...
CHINESE Commune at the Great Wall Chinese Restaurant, Commune Clubhouse, Great Wall, 8118-1888 A meal on the Great Wall used to be a stop-in at a random roadside restaurant (or family's home), or a packed lunch of apples, water, an assortment of crackers and biscuits stuffed into ...
A noteworthy architectural project is just getting underway in a Chinese valley within easy commuting distance of Beijing: builders Soho China have commissioned various Asian architects to build a number of homes on the hills overlooking the Great Wall. The dimensions of the ...
The average traveler heading to the West of China packs his bags, roughs it, takes a few poignant photos of the scenery, the people, and their traveling companions - and then emails a few shots off to their friends. If you're a legendary figure in China's real estate circle - ...
SHANGHAI IS A CITY WITH A SPLIT PERSONALITY. In little more than a decade its modern financial district, Pudong, has sprouted dozens of shiny glass-and-steel skyscrapers-most of them mundane, and a few over the top, such as the Pearl Oriental Tower, adorned by two pink balls that ...
It seems like everything is topsy-turvy, and that the world can change with just a cast of the dice on the board of destiny. This is the feeling that lingers in my mind after my encounter with the almost-legendary Pan Shiyi, President of Beijing SOHO. Born and brought up in a ...
Two Hong Kong-based banks closed their first deals with the Beijing-based property tycoon Pan Shiyi to provide mortgage service to his luxury housing project. Does this signal the beginning for overseas banks to fight for their market share in the Chinese mortgage business? On ...
From October 24 to the end of this year, SOHO New Town, located in the CBD of Beijing, is going to welcome over 1,000 new residents. At the same time, the developer of New Town, Pan Shiyi, reiterated his company's 'no-questions-asked return' policy. The policy offered at SOHO New ...
The following comment has been made in reference to Laopan (as Pan Shiyi's close friends may call him): If Pan Shiyi were in the IT business, he would be Zhang Chaoyang; If Zhang Chaoyang were in real estate, he would be Pan Shiyi. This is because both of them know how to "put on ...
On the outskirts of Beijing near the Shuiguan section of China's Great Wall stand 12 unconventional buildings settled in a tree-lined valley. The houses, which are scheduled for completion by September 2002, were all designed by avant-garde architects from Asia. This new ...
Brimming with confidence and charm, Beijing's power couple Pan Shiyi and Zhang Xin are creating a revolution of their very own. They walk into the press conference together. He resembles a scholar with his round glasses and Mandarin collared silk jacket. She is worldly and ...
Avant-garde and alternative, Zhang Xin views the world's architecture from the shoulders of the talents with whom she surrounds herself. Open and tolerant, she is a woman without a woman's weaknesses. She makes the most of her strengths to compensate for her drawbacks. It is ...
From April 11 to April 14, the annual conference of the Asia Forum will be held in Boao, Hainan Province. Boao, once a small fishing village, has in recent years become a hotbed of real estate development and tourism activity. Due to the impact of the Boao Forum for Asia and Boao...
Rome, Sept. 8 (Xinhuanet) On Sept. 8, Terence Riley, chairman of the International Jury of the 8th International Architecture Exhibition, announced that the 'Special Prize to an individual patron of architectural works' went to Ms. Zhang Xin for her 'Commune by the Great Wall' ...
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