There are certain spots in major metropolises that become so iconic the very thing that once made them famous can become overly laurel-resting and highly touristic – think The Galle Face in Colombo, The Ritz in London and Les Deux Magots in Paris, to name just a few. But there's a most interesting diversion in the case of the Quanjude restaurant in Beijing, a purveyor of the capital's finest roast duck for more than 150 years, and which has served the likes of Fidel Castro and Richard Nixon from its multi-storey headquarters. This venerable institution now has branches all over the sprawling Chinese city, but chose to open its first European outlet on October 29 in, of all places, the French port city of Bordeaux.
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The writer is an associate professor of accounting and deputy director of the accounting department at Peking University's Guanghua School of Management.
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The yen was traded at about 106 per dollar on Friday. The longer-term outlook implies that the yen can advance all the way to 100 per dollar, but that would depend on whether global trade tensions continue to get worse.
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The zone will house an internationally competitive industrial cluster featuring integrated circuit, artificial intelligence, biomedicine, and civil aviation companies, all of which will pillar the economic growth of Lingang, said Chen.