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...While in the 1950s there was much discussion about the formation of subsidiaries in former colonies, by the 1960s attention had turned to the international role of the dollar, problems with the Bretton Woods...
...Yet the topic is dividing the club of advanced economies....
...With fine dining and lounge areas, it’s a mix between a luxury beach club and a sporting event....
...In well-heeled Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, Jemma Scott, partner at The Buying Solution, had an octogenarian client battling her octogenarian cohort from the tennis club over a property....
...found their way through the Commonwealth Office into the colonies and positioned themselves as architectural firms.”...
...And she’s basically on the run from international law enforcement....
...The coexistence of the Chinese- and English-speaking worlds in Hong Kong, originally part of an imperial trade bureaucracy, had shifted to an arrangement based around international business....
...I think it’s really interesting that countries like Togo, Gabon, Rwanda are joining that Commonwealth club. even. Gideon RachmanEven though they weren’t British colonies....
...Cat and mouse A Chinese spy sought out to uncover secrets from the aerospace unit of GE and defence giant Honeywell International....
...Government spending in 2021 was 59 per cent of GDP, the highest in the OECD, the club of rich countries....
...The conflict, lasting between March and July 1992, was Russia’s first post-Soviet war aiming to keep a former colony under its sphere of influence....
...The expected appointment of Lee, 64, as Hong Kong’s fifth chief executive since the former British colony reverted to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 was all but assured this week after the incumbent, Carrie...
...The Artemis programme aims to return astronauts to the Moon and establish a long-term lunar colony as a precursor to human exploration of Mars....
...Well before independence in 1947 there was great diversity of opinion in the west about the future of India and the other colonies....
...After the second world war, Spanish aristocrats promoted the village of Marbella to the burgeoning international jet set....
...Europe’s climate diplomacy is about more than negotiating at international forums such as the UN’s COP summits....
...It’s about how many Spacs you’ve invested in One private equity executive recently told DD that “Spacs are like a country club membership”....
...Babcock International has hired former Cobham head David Lockwood as chief executive to drive change at the UK defence contractor. More here....
...Between peep shows and brothels, theatres and cinemas, between the offices of Private Eye, the Establishment club, the Coach and Horses and the Colony Room sat the Gay Hussar....
...Historically, Hong Kong’s business elite — perhaps meeting in the private boxes of the Jockey Club or at the Shek O Country Club — might have exchanged notes on the mood music from “up north” in Beijing....
...The former British colony is not a democracy but rather “a city ruled in effect by an alliance between the local government, the Beijing authorities and the city’s all-powerful real estate tycoons.”...
...And the FT’s Murad Ahmed has just broken news that underscores how sport has become an asset class where international finance is pouring in....
...(FT) Tom Barrack faces pressure at Colony Capital The real estate investor and close friend of Donald Trump faces an attempt to unseat him from the board of his Colony Capital investment firm after an activist...
...Club Med, in particular, was a European institution dating back to 1950, when a Belgian entrepreneur set up a colony of tents on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca....
...(FT, Guardian, Times) SoftBank eyes KPMG club SoftBank is in advanced talks to take over KPMG’s private club in Mayfair, after regulators raised concerns that the accounting firm was handing out memberships...
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