Mr Armstrong had been living on the island of Koh Tao where he had been taking a diving course.

BBC: Helen Armstrong-Bland and Tom Armstrong

Mr Armstrong had been in Thailand since last April and was living on the island of Koh Tao for a diving course.

BBC: Tom Armstrong

Tom Armstrong has been in Thailand since last April and had been living on the island of Koh Tao for a diving course.

BBC: Tom Armstrong

Mr Armstrong, who is 6ft 2ins tall, has fair hair and an occasional short red beard, had been in Thailand since last April and had been on a diving course on the island of Koh Tao.

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"WTO could be just the thing to put China's reforms on the fast-track, " says Dong Tao, senior regional economist at Credit Suisse First Boston.

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In this vein, Timothy Gowers of Cambridge, who like Tao is another math world Mick Jagger, remarked on the risk of advocacy being substituted for argument.

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Having dropped his Jaguar off with the valet, the 64-year-old bon vivant--now grayer on top and plenty of pounds more prosperous at the waistline than he was on TV--struts through the Venetian resort and into a nightclub called Tao.

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Tao established the blog in February 2007 as a way to facilitate updates on his faculty home page.

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Wang Tao, chief economist with UBS AG in China, told China Daily on Tuesday that extensions of local-government debt already started last year amid concerns that municipalities were hurting from a sharp decline in housing development and fixed asset investments from Beijing.

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Tao, a math celebrity of sorts, has a page-long list of rules on his faculty Web site prescribing how he likes to be contacted.

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