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South Korea
Scouts gathering in South Korea evacuated ahead of typhoon
...A K-pop concert that had been due to be held at the campsite on Sunday has been postponed to Friday....
August 7, 2023
FT GlobetrotterCharting London’s museums
Voyages of discovery at London’s National Maritime Museum
...Francis Drake arrived back from his 1577 circumnavigation of the world with so much loot that Elizabeth I was able to pay off the national debt with her share....
February 13, 2023
FT Live
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Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ObituaryFilm
James Caan, actor, 1940-2022
...Best known for his explosive, unpredictable turn as Sonny Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972) and for playing the compulsive, self-destructive Axel Freed in Karel Reisz’s The Gambler...
July 11, 2022
The world in 2023
UK economists’ survey: ‘miserable’ year ahead for households
...Noble Francis: The second half of 2023 is expected to see a rise in UK GDP as inflation eases....
January 2, 2023
ReviewWork & Careers
Lessons from the ‘risk business’
...The other is the Boys’ Own Adventure sort, who may or may not have aged out of a special forces unit but who now finds job satisfaction in “K&R” (kidnap and ransom) cases and extricating westerners from...
April 17, 2021
Best FT Weekend long reads of 2021
Can we defeat death?
...Most healthcare is already geared towards postponing death, points out John K Davis, a philosopher at California State University and author of New Methusalahs: The Ethics of Life Extension....
October 29, 2021
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
UK business
UK economists’ survey: recovery will be slower than in peer countries
...“K-shaped” recovery anyone? For more on this, check out my “Confessions of an economic forecaster"....
January 3, 2021
Film
London Film Festival: a jamboree in the midst of a circus
...London itself gets a supporting role in Citizen K, Alex Gibney’s densely packed documentary study of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, oligarch-in-exile....
September 27, 2019
Theatre to watch in London and beyond
Child-sex offenders — and their antagonists — are the subjects of Bruce Norris’s new play Downstate
...Above all, K. Todd Freeman as Dee clearly enjoys needling virtually everyone, but even when being more conscientious and supportive he seems to be acting out of a desire for control....
March 21, 2019
World
Macau’s upstart casino champ makes play for new markets Premium content
...For a casino mogul with global ambitions, Francis Lui Yiu-tung displays none of the flamboyance of his rivals....
May 16, 2018
UK business
Why the ‘Boris bounce’ is likely to be shortlived
...Noble Francis: Feel bad and continue to spend....
January 1, 2020
Global Economy
Daily briefing: North Korean missile tensions, bitcoin’s China challenge, the Rouhanicare revolution
...The former Soviet army officer talks about that meeting in Trump Tower — the one that was definitely about adoptions, then, based on email evidence, most definitely not about adoptions: “I will never f**k...
September 4, 2017
Brexit
Gloomy growth projections cloud hopes for UK economy
...The U.K. will have the weakest growth in the G7. Howard Davies, Professor in Practice, Sciences Po. The GDP growth figure will begin with a 1....
January 1, 2018
Aerospace & Defence
BAE to benefit as UK and Australia win fighter-jet support work
...“Two billion over 40 years isn’t much,” said Francis Tusa, editor of Defence Analysis. “We are in a spectacularly high stakes game of poker.”...
November 7, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
Summer Reading 2016: Fiction
...Zero K, by Don DeLillo, Picador, RRP£16.99/Scribner, RRP$27 At 79, the American master surprises yet again with a dystopian take on our desire to preserve life beyond its sell-by date....
July 1, 2016
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
FT AlphavilleRobin Wigglesworth
We read tons of hedge fund letters so you didn’t have to – here’s what they said about Brexit
...CWD, the leading real estate broker in the U.K., will certainly be impacted by the “Brexit” decision....
August 29, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
Best books of 2016: Fiction
...Golden Hill, by Francis Spufford, Faber, RRP£16.99 Spufford, known as a distinguished writer of non-fiction, brings 18th-century New York to life in all its hyperactive infancy....
December 2, 2016
FT Magazine
The secrets of London’s coffee doctor
...A Francis Francis machine, made by Illy. “Funny name I know but, there you are, very rarely get these.” A large Pavoni, a giant Elektra. An Ascaso Arc, alongside an Ascaso Dream....
August 19, 2016
UK economy
Trump’s presidency could have ‘mildly positive’ effect for the UK
...But effects on U.K. only marginally positive — and the fiscal expansion may not happen....
January 2, 2017
Brexit
Economists gloomy on UK prospects for 2017
...Peter Westaway, chief European economist, Vanguard I expect U.K. growth to fall away markedly next year, from its current 2% rate probably to around 1%, slightly weaker than the consensus view....
January 2, 2017
FT Magazine
Visionary vinyl
...Rapper Lil’ Kim poses in honeyed splendour in David LaChapelle’s picture for The Notorious K.I.M. (2000)....
February 26, 2016
Life & Arts
John Ruskin: the greatest eye in Europe
...‘Carrying off the Palaces: The Lost Daguerreotyoes of John Ruskin’, Bernard Quaritch £85 Photograph: K & J Jacobson...
March 20, 2015
Brexit
Most economists still pessimistic about effects of Brexit
...The long-term prospects for UK GDP are largely determined by the trade deal which the U.K. Is able to strike with the EU....
January 7, 2017
Life & Arts
The FT’s summer books 2016
...Clive Cookson Art Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, edited by Martin Harrison, Heni Publishing, RRP£1,000/The Estate of Francis Bacon, RRP$1,500 Art book of the year, perhaps the decade, this showcases...
July 1, 2016
John Kay
Playing dice with your money
...More than half a century ago, J.K. Galbraith presented a definitive depiction of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 in a slim, elegantly written volume....
September 4, 2015

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