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Disrupted Times
Tough times for retailers
...This piece by Alice Hancock in Brussels and Sylvia Pfeifer in London details the potential hit to global trade from the EU’s new tax on imports of carbon-intensive materials....
January 10, 2024
Hong Kong politics
Protest granny ‘prepared to die’ for Hong Kong’s freedoms
...Although less well known abroad than other protest figures such as activist Joshua Wong or dissident media tycoon Jimmy Lai, Ms Wong’s supporters say that few better represent the bravery and resilience...
December 28, 2020
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Visual Arts
Sculpture in the City — lending new life to London
...Outside Fenchurch Street Station, “Bloom Paradise”, Jun T Lai’s giant painted lotus flowers, is a symbol of regeneration....
June 16, 2021
Hong Kong politics
Hong Kong arrests pro-democracy media tycoon
...A regular at pro-democracy protests, Mr Lai has been labelled a traitor by Beijing....
February 28, 2020
The FT hair clinic
The best hair salons and barbers in the world
...I see him about once a month.” rudysbarbershop.com Alice Archer, fashion designer“I met hairstylist Carolina Crona on a shoot....
July 16, 2020
Coronavirus
Band plays on at Hong Kong Disneyland but visitors stay away
...Additional reporting by Alice Woodhouse...
April 2, 2020
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Hong Kong politics
Hong Kong protesters see shot teenager as a symbol of defiance
...“The protesters are under the impression that the young man was intentionally shot,” said Larry Lai, an honorary lecturer in politics and public administration at the University of Hong Kong....
October 6, 2019
FirstFT
FirstFT: Today’s top stories
...(FT) HK pro-democracy publisher’s home firebombed Media tycoon Jimmy Lai, who has been labelled a traitor by state media in mainland China, had his home firebombed in the early hours of Thursday....
September 5, 2019
Hong Kong politics
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam rebuffs protesters’ demands
...On Monday, Mike Pompeo, US secretary of state, met Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy newspaper publisher from Hong Kong....
July 9, 2019
Life & Arts
Film and photography dominate Gwangju Biennale
...Lais Myrrha’s giant, white wing-like sculpture makes for a dramatic opening to the show....
September 28, 2018
fastFT
Taiwan premier tells public to remain calm over toilet paper frenzy
...Taiwan’s premier, Lai Ching-te, told citizens via a Facebook post on Tuesday morning to rest assured, not to panic and that the situation would be resolved....
February 27, 2018
World
Court disqualifies Hong Kong lawmakers over oaths
...The court ruled lawmakers Leung Kwok-hung, Nathan Law, Lau Siu-lai and Edward Yiu had failed to take their oaths correctly when sworn in in October following city-wide elections....
July 14, 2017
Next Digital
Next Digital jumps on plan to sell magazine assets
...The publisher of pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, which was founded by colourful media baron Jimmy Lai, said it had received an indicative offer from W Bros....
July 17, 2017
Capital markets
Banks rush to trade on HK-China Bond Connect
...CG Lai, BNP Paribas head of global markets for China, said: Over the last year China has been normalizing policy and we’ve seen the currency stabilize and bond yields start to become more attractive....
July 3, 2017
ReviewLife & Arts
Nixon in China, Metropolitan Opera, New York
...Robert Brubaker blustered heroically as Mao, Richard Paul Fink bumbled deftly as Kissinger and Russell Braun exuded mysterious dignity as Chou En-lai....
February 4, 2011
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Andrew Clark
Access new arias
...Adams and his co-authors, Peter Sellars and Alice Goodman, did not home in on the Watergate affair, Nixon’s worst moment, but on his finest....
February 4, 2011
ReviewLife & Arts
Nixon in China: Marin Alsop
...Like Adams’s score, Alice Goodman’s libretto sometimes descends to caricature, but there is no doubting the dramatic vitality of either, and it is wonderful now to have this second recording (a decade after...
October 22, 2009
Life & Arts
Nixon in China, Opera Colorado, Denver
...A subtext of the opera is the transition of power from Mao to Chou En-lai, to which Mark Heller and Chen-Ye Yuan ably contribute, and Thomas Hammons is a slippery Henry Kissinger....
June 12, 2008
Life & Arts
Nixon in China, Coliseum, London
...The fact that the supporting cast – Mark Stone’s Chou En-lai, Roland Wood’s Kissinger, Judith Howarth’s Madame Mao – are ciphers is not their fault but the creators’....
June 15, 2006

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