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From Eastern Art Report Online:

The work of New York-based artist Xu Bing, highly regarded because of his innovative and playful use of Chinese and English calligraphy, or what appears to be akin to it, will be on show in London at the Albion Gallery. This is Xu Bing’s largest and most comprehensive gallery show to date and will bring together nearly 40 works as well as the more recent Book from the Ground, shown at MoMA, New York, in 2007.

The exhibition is held at

Albion Gallery
8 Hester Road
Battersea, London SW11 4AX
Tel: 020 7801 2480

until 23 June 2008.

 

Scotsman newspaper interviews Christian Hogg, founder and chief executive of Hutchison China MediTech (Chi-Med), which develops Chinese medicines and healthcare products, and bring them to the Western market.

Hogg, who grew up in Jedburgh and went to school at George Watson’s College in Edinburgh, founded Chi-Med in 2000 and became its chief executive in 2006, when the company floated on London’s alternative investment market (Aim).

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