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...The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the US audit regulator, wrote a stinging report on BF Borgers in 2022 that criticised the “tone at the top” of the firm....
...August 27 to September 29; further information and tickets here Sport World Lacrosse Women’s U20 Championship, Mong Kok Stadium Since it was founded in 1995, the US has won this quadrennial tournament...
...August 24 to 26; further information and tickets here Notting Hill Carnival Each year over the August bank holiday, revellers descend on Notting Hill for the much-loved Caribbean carnival dating back to...
...(Without a graduate degree, the term is seven years). Still, Pérez acknowledges that it has been “difficult” for a control freak — unfettered by a board of directors — to relinquish control....
...Celebrity of a different sort hovers around the more reclusive Jez Butterworth, theatrical royalty since 2009’s Jerusalem, who drops a new play now and again just to keep us keen....
...And on August 24, two Dresden galleries, the Albertinum and the Kupferstich-Kabinett, partner on a third show, Caspar David Friedrich: Where It All Started (to January 5 2025, albertinum.skd.museum)....
...the board....
...The sky-high cost of energy is incentivising homeowners to generate their own power. France’s centrally regulated electricity prices jumped 15 per cent in February and another 10 per cent on August 1....
...Since then, however, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government has almost doubled the limit on how much each party could spend on the coming election to £35mn, considerably raising the stakes in the race to...
...at £1.3bn....
...By November, Chailley could no longer tolerate the risks. “As you know, we have in excess of €600mn unsettled trades with Sapinda in our books since August 2017,” he wrote to Windhorst....
...It is the largest base of low-cost airline Ryanair Tim Johnson, director of the Aviation Environment Federation, an NGO, says industry and government plans to decarbonise are banking on “the best possible...
...Now that the federal government was prosecuting her, Gold was worried about the future of America’s Frontline Doctors. In March 2021, she asked Gilbert to join the non-profit’s board of directors....
...It is, after all, just six months since the near-catastrophic collapse of Credit Suisse. “It feels very much like the Swiss brand is on the defensive,” he says....
...$1.5bn....
...He has spent $1.5bn to gut One Wall Street, the Art Deco headquarters built for Irving Trust in 1928, and turn it into 566 luxury condominiums....
...Since 2009, the Extreme Traveler International Congress has run meetups for tourists wanting to go beyond the brochures....
...He’s in Bolinas, which is a 20-minute drive south of Point Reyes on Highway 1....
...Whether it was obvious at the time or not, the apotheosis of the idea that trade would lead to a freer China occurred on August 8 2008, during the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Beijing....
...Marc Spiegler, global director of Art Basel, will stay in his role and on the board of its owner, MCH Group....
...Prices across the bloc have been sky high, even if they have come down since a sharp rise in August....
...Barcelona Global, an association trying to attract expatriates, points to a list of new investments since the peak of the Covid pandemic: Apple and Microsoft AI centres, Amazon and Google offices, Siemens...
...Dalio has transferred all of his voting rights to the board of directors, said people familiar with the details. 5....
...It is famous for being the home of the prolific film director Ingmar Bergman, who notched up multiple awards and shot six films, a television series and two documentaries on the island....
...“We’re certainly entering a different period,” says Noble Francis, economics director of the Construction Products Association....
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