In Britain for the G20 summit in early April, he was caught on camera squirming in embarrassment at being seated next to Fu Ying, China's sophisticated ambassador to Britain (and, before that, Australia).

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Matsushita has tried to get round this by setting up, in 1994, a joint venture with Beijing Hua Ying Sheng Electric Development Corporation, to distribute its products.

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Researcher Dr Ying Li said it might also be possible to use the technique to target drug treatments more precisely at cancer cells.

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' Every day I get some ying-yang calling me up because they think all they have to do is hire a publicist, and I'm going to make them a star.

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Chen Ying says that, no matter what, she is not going back to live in Dimuchong again.

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"Sports brands in China are generally slow to understand demand from end-consumers because of these multiple layers of distribution, " said Alfred Ying, analyst of Piper Jaffray Asia Securities Ltd.

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