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...In his native South Africa, the former policeman had been involved, by his own account, in some shady operations as the country transitioned from apartheid....
...Li’s company, which has offices in Hefei, near Shanghai, as well as in Silicon Valley, designs and sells EV chassis — known as skateboards....
...Access is also seeking to invest more in South Korea as a centre for film and television....
...Private actors are responding to the real advantages of doing business in dollars, like deep capital markets and predictable courts. This, not currency allegiance, is at the root of dollar dominance....
...Anecdotally, I can report that my Brooklyn florist was doing standing-room-only business on Mother’s Day. Send your own observations to: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...Winfried Franz Wilhelm Bischoff was born midway through the second world war and spent his early years on the family farm in the Ruhr Valley not far from Cologne....
...Driving is best as it is just 75km or an hour’s drive south-east of the city centre. 1....
...We barrel along, climbing the escarpments of the Rift Valley, the Land Cruiser starting to strain....
...The authors write about Mountain View, California, a posh town in Silicon Valley....
...For their second date, Gil sent a private jet to fetch her for lunch in Las Vegas, where he was doing business. They divorced in 2017....
...For years, however, regional start-ups were derided as “cloners” or “copycats” of Silicon Valley and China....
...There is only one place to start a business in Silicon Valley: the garage....
...“Most other people come here thinking it will be easy to do business in a ski resort, but don’t know what they’re doing and fall over,” he says....
...But it shouldn't be all we're doing....
...As I drive through the Rhondda Valley in south Wales for this Lunch with the FT, I reflect that it is hard to imagine anywhere in the UK further removed from the highly charged City environment where my...
...The Black Rock wind farm, nestled in the remote mountains of outer West Virginia, is exactly the sort of project President Joe Biden hopes will proliferate as a result of the unprecedented clean energy cash...
...Half of south of England was in flames at one point when these machines just first started to arrive on these farms....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 23. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...This is particularly important in China, where the legal system is weakly enforced and relationships are crucial to doing business....
...A taipan’s memories For those interested in the inner workings of Hong Kong Inc, as well as a melancholy reminder of how much both the territory and China-US commercial relations have changed for the worse...
...So what does this tell us about what will happen after this latest tech boom turns to bust, as it shows signs of doing?...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on May 27 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...Perhaps that’s why the Amazon founder believed not even Ambani could stand in the way of the Silicon Valley titan’s quest for dominance over India’s booming retail market....
...Startup Girl has helped fund 11 women-led companies to date, including Sea Star, a water-shoe company; Pepper, which makes underwear; and Bouches, which makes South African leather goods....
...Thaco cultivates farm equipment market...
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