The permanent collection, which will be exhibited whole again in 2003, includes British portraiture from the 15th to 18th centuries, Neapolitan art from the late Renaissance, Chinese bronzes and British folk art.
McMillan says his lines have been copied by Chinese, Indian and British companies, but nonetheless the company won an order equal to 10% of last year's revenue from Sinopec, the state-owned Chinese oil company.
For CMR, we interviewed potential clients and found that French, British and Chinese companies were the ones most likely to increase their spending, along with companies that targeted Chinese consumers.
On Monday, Mr. Browne highlighted the ties between the U.K. and China following meetings between some British and Chinese officials.
Thailand became a free-market economy, open to all investments from all countries, and it absorbed its Chinese immigrants, who had arrived during and after British rule.
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So a golden rule of survival in this settlement is that every building must have its front door unlocked - and that includes those of the hosts, the Norwegian Polar Institute, and of the French and Germans, the British, the Indians, the Chinese and many others.
American oil companies do have important contracts in Iraq, but so do British, Russian and Chinese companies.
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On one recent outing, to a funfair, he enjoyed a ride with a young British diplomat and the Chinese ambassador.
Valley is not overawing: according to a recent survey, Russians comprise only about 2.4% of immigrant entrepreneurs in the area, a modest figure when compared to Indians (33%), Chinese (8%), and even British (6.3%), Canadians (4.2%), Germans (3.9%), and Israelis (3.5%).
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The transaction will only turn out to be important if it is the priming of a financial pump that then gushes a flow of Chinese money into British roads, rail, hospitals and the other things that our indebted government is struggling to afford.
Following the release of the IAEA report and ahead of the UN General Assembly's opening meeting later this month, this week US, German, British, French, Russian and Chinese diplomats met in Germany to discuss the possibility of ratcheting up Security Council sanctions against Iran.
The United States is also unique in the scale on which it attracts human capital: of the 314 laureates who won their Nobel prize while working in the U.S., 102 (or 32%) were foreign born, including 15 Germans, 12 Canadians, 10 British, six Russians and six Chinese (twice as many as have received the award while working in China).
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The foreign secretary said he was informed of the claims the next day and immediately instructed British officials to ask the Chinese authorities to investigate.
The Shenzhou themselves are based on Russia's Soyuz craft but, according to Phillip Clark, a British-based consultant and expert on the Chinese space programme, they are not a straight knock-off.
The loosening of restrictions on trading yuan started in Hong Kong, a former British colony under Chinese sovereignty but with its own legal and financial systems.
The British have suggested that, to help win Russian and Chinese agreement for tougher measures, another package of proposals might have to be put to Iran (it turned the Europeans' last lot down flat without even reading them).
Industry insiders are convinced that, by Easter, Airbus will have landed a Chinese order for the plane, while leading carriers such as Cathay Pacific and British Airways are merely sitting temporarily on the sidelines, waiting for the inevitable teething troubles to be sorted out and for the even bigger versions of the new aircraft expected before long.
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Recent bets taken by Chinese investors on Blackstone, a private-equity firm, and Barclays, a British bank, have not yet paid off.
In 1943, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss the war against Japan.
He commended the high educational achievements of Chinese British pupils, however highlighted his worries with the "persistent" under achievements of black Caribbean and black African pupils.
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