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...AGBA’s majority owner is controlled by Taiwanese businessman Richard Tsai whose family founded the Fubon Financial empire. Tsai also holds a stake in Triller, according to regulatory filings....
...Inès Cross Okashi is at Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, from 13 April until 30 June SHOP A diamond-studded Breakfast at Tiffany’s Bound in black goatskin, studded with over 1,000 white-platinum-set diamonds...
...In today’s newsletter: London brokers cling together BYD seeks LatAm lithium JetBlue’s deal turbulence Bob Diamond bets UK market has hidden gems Former Barclays boss Bob Diamond has come a long way...
...Selling diamond and platinum mines when commodity prices are at their lowest point would be inadvisable, Wanblad has argued....
...All other units, such as De Beers diamonds, would have undergone a strategic review....
...Hackney Diamonds therefore represents a risk. It requires us to believe, contrary to evidence, that the Jagger-Richards songwriting partnership is no longer semi-defunct....
...Rio Tinto (which bought a South African business, Richards Bay Minerals, off BHP in 2012) is probably better placed to consider big M&A right now....
...Similarly impressive is the multicoloured diamond and gemstone-set Piaget Tanagra....
...“This merger will lift the level and quality of service to mid and small-capbusinesses and investors in the UK and beyond,” Diamond said in a statement.Ricci was one of Diamond’s key lieutenants at Barclays...
...The jeweller, which has launched lab-produced diamonds to compete with pricier luxury brands as well as its normal offering of bracelets and charms, increased its full-year sales guidance at the same time...
...Rio Tinto, which still owns titanium dioxide miner Richards Bay Minerals in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal region, has also tried to reduce its exposure to risky jurisdictions such as South Africa....
...Meanwhile, there’s a little bit of Barbie about Richard Mille’s RM 07-01 Coloured Ceramics ladies’ timepieces....
...Bulgari pink-gold, diamond, mother-of-pearl and aquamarine high-jewellery necklace and pink-gold, diamond, peridot, topaz and amethyst ring, both POA Penelope wears Pierre Cardin pleated Lycra column dress...
...“The underlying concern is that we are walking towards a bloodbath in lab-grown diamonds,” said Richard Chetwode, managing director of RCC Diamond Consultants....
...“The deal is not good for De Beers, the industry and even Botswana in the long term,” said Richard Chetwode, an independent diamond sector consultant....
...“There is a dissonance between the UK’s military ambitions and its capabilities,” Sir Richard Barrons, former head of Britain’s armed forces, said....
...The proposals were sent to European capitals by the European Commission last week, and governments are still debating a ban on Russian diamonds and tighter measures to enforce a price cap on Russian oil....
...This is the type of diamond-sharp insight that has made Icke one of the UK’s most exciting directors over the past decade....
...As with her work – a rosewood necklace carved out of a chest of drawers or an amorphous ear cuff with a dangling diamond – her home is anything but predictable....
...Richard Milne Mark Read, WPP For Mark Read, Christmas is the only day he gets to switch off emails, and when the calls stop to and from the advertising firm’s clients....
...“So I took my grandmother’s diamond ring from my finger, put it down and took the book,” she recalls. “I don’t think anyone has ever paid so much for a book by Nabokov. But it was worth it.”...
...Stylist’s assistants, Amelie Richard and Rémy Yombo....
...His musical partner, Keith Richards — who turns 80 on December 18 — did not attend, but Instagrammed Mick: “Have another good ’un; and give me a call — let me know what it’s like.”...
...UK government ministers have selected veteran TV executive Samir Shah as the new BBC chair, replacing Richard Sharp who resigned this year....
...Richard Moore, head of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, commented this week that the Wagner chief had “started off as a traitor at breakfast, he’d been pardoned by supper and two days later he’d been...
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