The paper cited an unnamed
sector analyst who said
the restructuring is very likely
to take place after both
Shanghai Airlines gets the EGM
approval over raising
funds of around CNY 1bn
(USD 147m) on 13 March
and CEA [Dong Fang
Hang Kong] is approved
by its EGM on 26 February
over its CNY 7bn (USD 1.03bn).
The source went on to say
that the restructuring could
be made [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Work
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Warming Her
The night they moved into a new
Place in a new city they arrived
Before the movers with the bedding
And the blankets and had nothing
To sleep on but a bare mattress
Or in but the few clothes they’d brought
The temperature went down
He warmed her till morning
Holding her close and tight
Breathing his breath against
Where her neck curved to become
Her [...]
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The beating of man vs beast
Why is it intolerable to me
Who emotionlessly have watched
The most graphically violent movies
Of my generation, to watch
The beating of an animal shown
In the context of doing something
To shut down fur factories in China?
The beating of a person
I could watch and it
Would be sickening
Though not intolerable.
A true crime show
With some crack addict
On a mad rampage,
Striking at [...]
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Unknown City
Walking along a beach I see waves crash
And roll slowly up to where they halt
Momentarily and turn to go the other way.
I see people enjoy the warmth of a holiday’s
Late afternoon, and rifts in the sand;
Craters created by the steps their feet take;
The slanted light of sun caught along the ridges;
The pockets of contrasted shadow.
But [...]
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Joubert on Rain
Standing at an urban corner
Contemplating the words of French writer
Joseph Joubert on rain:
“[Rain’s] effect on our bodies forces us
To withdraw into ourselves…
The very noise the rain produces,
Which the Latins called densissimus imber…
The brownish hue the moisture gives
To the walls, the trees, the rocks…
Enveloped in his coat, his head covered,
The traveller is struck by everything
And everything [...]
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The Vampire
Sick of blood and tired of draining hearts
till they cease to beat and die, the vampire
lay down in a grave. Once covered with dirt
and confined within earth’s supple womb
the blind worms, hungry orifices agape,
began finding their crawly way to him
and the panic of most stringent imprisonment waned
he began to thrill at the appalling hallucinations
seen by [...]
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Fear
Dreading the monster idling on the seabed,
sensory organs attuned to the far-reaching
vibratory currents of the swimmer’s splashes
carried through water by its essence, his heart
raced in panic and the fitful breathing of desperate,
vigorous movement; his head held up,
kept dry to protect his eyes, wide open, against
the stinging salt as he imagined it prepared
to dart up and [...]
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The Viking
Smoke, burnt cloth and singed skin
lingering as smell and pain, dissipate slowly
like the ashes that wafted above the charred wreck
Of the razed structure they left behind, on the viking
as he stands, head bowed and brow furrowed at
the prow of his ship as its hull ploughs through
the icy sea; poised there though the planks of
the deck [...]
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The glass bottle
The muted shatter of a glass bottle
that had clankingly rolled around the road,
forced by wind on a speedy freeway
to dance in darting avoidance of giants,
like ants that run scattered, dumb
to the danger towering above, crushed
into sudden silence and stillness in the merci-
less pinch of a hard rubber wheel
awakes the dreamer who having risen
stumbles in [...]
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Truck Burgers
I get to the hospital and meet my dad. He says, “We had a pretty bad incident with Chris. I came home and all the floors were covered with broken glass. He had broken two really big mirrors and kicked his foot through one of the panes in that glass door we have in the [...]
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