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...The talks to combine Vodafone UK and CK Hutchison’s Three UK, first revealed by the Financial Times last May, have been going on for nearly a year as Vodafone has faced pressure from its investors to streamline...
...Brussels has previously blocked big deals including CK Hutchison’s £10.5bn attempt to buy O2 in 2016....
...Two people familiar with the matter told the Financial Times that CK Hutchison has been in talks with Telenor, a Norway-based telecoms company, about a potential deal to combine their Danish and Swedish...
...Corporate earnings: Hong Kong property developers CK Hutchison and Henderson Land, along with China’s Ping An Insurance and CNOOC, have financial results....
...Angel Trains, Eversholt and Porterbrook — emerged from rail privatisation in the 1990s largely through a series of management buyouts, but have since been sold on to investors, including Hong-Kong based CK...
Vacancies rise in exclusive Beijing and Shanghai towers as tenants seek lower rents
...And finally To the Young Vic theatre for Kimber Lee’s untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play, a blazingly satirical drama about the prejudice and casual stereotyping that so many British east Asian and south-east...
...The UK competition regulator in January launched a formal probe into its plans to merge its domestic business with CK Hutchison-owned Three UK....
...Vodafone UK chief executive Ahmed Essam will be head of the new group and Three UK CFO Darren Purkis will be chief financial officer....
...Financial markets closed Senegal: presidential election Vatican City: Pope Francis attends a Palm Sunday service in St Peter’s Square...
...Vodafone’s chief financial officer Luka Mucic said he was “very confident that we will actually see improving returns over time” in light of the changes the company was making....
...No country for young grads For many young students in China today, the joy of graduation is overshadowed by worries about their future careers, write Nikkei Asia’s Marrian Zhou and CK Tan....
...F*ck the Tories.” Colum Eastwood, an MP from Northern Ireland’s small nationalist Social Democratic and Labour party, called Badenoch’s decision “highly irregular” and demanded an explanation....
...Shares in the Asian financial hub’s five largest builders had surged in December and January as local home prices rose and global investors bet on a robust rebound in Chinese growth....
...Drivers in China have embraced electrics — more than a quarter of all cars sold last year were NEVs — but experts say only EV makers with economies of scale and enough financial firepower will remain standing...
...BT told the Financial Times that 4G and 5G data and voice calls were “now delivered by non-Huawei core equipment”....
...“The ETFs are a game-changer,” CK Zheng, co-founder and chief investment officer at crypto hedge fund ZK Squared Capital, told me....
...But a crowded market has set the stage for a brutal price war, writes Nikkei Asia’s CK Tan....
...Vodafone’s merger with CK Hutchison Ring ring....
...The proposed merger of the UK businesses of Vodafone and CK Hutchison Holdings — a Hong Kong-based group — will also attract scrutiny under the act....
...Ofgem is looking at whether any further financial resilience measures are needed for the regional distribution companies, such as strengthening reporting requirements on debt structures....
...Vodafone in June also announced plans to merge its domestic business with Three UK, owned by CK Hutchison....
...“The golden era of high profit margins in the housing market is over,” he told the Financial Times....
...The company’s consumer unit EE could also face intense competition if a domestic merger between Vodafone and CK Hutchison-owned Three is approved....
...In June, Vodafone announced plans to merge its domestic business with CK Hutchison-owned Three UK in June. The deal is being probed by the UK’s competition regulator....
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