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...In January, judge Linda Chan ordered the liquidation of Evergrande’s Hong Kong entity more than two years after its 2021 default set off a wave of similar failures across its peers....
...Hong Kong High Court Judge Linda Chan on Monday ordered China Evergrande, the world’s most indebted property developer, to be wound up....
...Two of Whatmore’s other characters are Irish — Edmund Burke and William Petty, the earl of Shelburne, a politician who created a kind of intellectual think-tank, the Bowood Circle....
...Brent crude, the international benchmark, traded as high as $92 a barrel on Friday after breaking above $90/b last week for the first time since October....
...“On factory floors across the nation, our autoworkers are making cars and trucks that give American drivers a choice — a way to get from point A to point B without having to fuel up at a gas station,” said...
...According to the title of a 1961 William Burroughs novel, what kind of machine is the human body? What was the title of David Bowie’s 1973 album of cover versions?...
...It was essentially a new-sheriff-in-town Western retooled as a pumped-up B-movie — in this case, B for brawn, booze and breasts. It has now been remade in a more sophisticated variant....
...It is too soon to say a) whether the reformed bus system introduced in September will be deemed a success in the long run or b) what a sustainable funding model might look like.)...
...“We had fun,” says Steven Meisel, who first shot Linda Evangelista in 1987. “Enjoy these photographs as much as we enjoyed creating them.”...
...William Wade, a credit analyst at JPMorgan, warned earlier this month that haircuts of 15-25 per cent on the ringfenced debt were now a “plausible” outcome that investors should be wary of....
...Sunak quickly moved in with a plan B, but will it work? The FT’s William Wallis has been following the case. Hello, William. William WallisHello, Lucy....
...Its author, former Netflix manager Sophie Williams, argues women running tricky companies need enough time in the job to do what is needed — which they often don’t get....
...Friedkin pushed the actors to their limits, especially young Linda Blair who played the demon-possessed adolescent Regan....
...Harbour’s oil and gas production will rise from about 190,000 barrels a day to more than 500,000 b/d when the deal completes....
...Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday it would keep its 1mn barrels a day reduction in place until the end of the year, while Russian deputy prime minister Alexander Novak said the country’s 300,000 b/d export reduction...
...Patterson points to a pewter beaker from the 1690s engraved with wrigglework portraits of William III and Mary II that sold at Christie’s for £14,400....
...“There’s a fight for talent in the whole energy sector,” said Linda Pålsson, head of energy at consultancy AFRY. Future solutions Governments continue to try to entice the private sector to help....
...its 1mn-barrels-a-day production cut for July into August, state media said, while Russia’s deputy prime minister Alexander Novak said Moscow would make a “voluntary” supply cut of an additional 500,000 b/...
...Asked if ministers were preparing a Plan B in the event that the government’s scheme to remove asylum seekers to Rwanda was struck down in the courts, Downing Street said: “We consider all options to stop...
...The Varna gold medallist Fumi Kaneko set the bar chasteningly high, partnered by an elegant and attentive William Bracewell....
...Additional reporting by Amanda Chu in New York and Aime Williams in Dubai...
...There had been amazing black designers, a thousand per cent, but there hadn’t been musicians, and specifically the R&B, rap world, being able to come in and not just wear something, not just use something...
...Linda Dove, a retired undertaker was less hopeful about the alternatives, sharing with many of her generation a sense of being let down....
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