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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...Exclusive: French hotel group Accor is in talks with Dubai Holding to fund the €800mn development of two upmarket cruise liners under the Orient Express brand, in the latest example of Middle Eastern investor...
...The newer generations want to express themselves without fear.”...
...Two years ago, Igor Matovič, then Slovakia’s prime minister, was asked in a radio interview what his government had promised Moscow in return for supplies of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid vaccine....
...Among Kissinger’s clients were American Express, Rio Tinto, Lehman Brothers, Disney and JPMorgan, and a roster of foreign clients....
...However, livestream shopping has not yet taken off in western markets as it has in China....
...Yet Paula Rego at Tate Britain rang out magnificently for its radicalism — no painter has more inventively subverted male tradition to express women’s experience....
...As always, reach out to us at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com with thoughts and topics....
...Russian rhetoric is also heating up over Ukraine, with western allies increasingly worried that Moscow may intervene in the country’s eastern border regions....
...(FT) Serbia has become the first European country to start using China's Sinopharm vaccine after its efforts to obtain western vaccines were frustrated....
...He had already moved up from Class V to Class IV. I watched a replay of the Stockholm Sprint Championship, where he had fought off Bright Knight and Gandalf the White to win by a nose....
...It has five finger holes, with a V-shaped notch for the mouthpiece....
...National Express currently trades at 4.3x December 2022E P/E....
...There is growing optimism that a “V-shaped” rebound — which had been widely dismissed only a month ago — could be on the horizon....
...Chart du jour: PMIs hit a V Europe’s economies may be heading for sharp bounceback in activity after the relaxation of lockdown measures, according to a closely watched survey of businesses....
...sam.fleming@ft.com; @sam1fleming Chart du jour: Boris v Corbyn Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn went head to head in their first election TV debate on Tuesday night as polling suggests the Tory leader...
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...Louis Vuitton’s flat-top trunk had been developed a couple of decades earlier, enabling luggage to be stacked on trains and ocean liners, both then new modes of transport....
...Trans-Europe Express Customs controls Der Spiegel reports there is growing EU pressure on Ireland to accept controls on the border with Northern Ireland in the event of a no-deal Brexit....
...But clients are increasingly asking for probability-based terms [to express outcomes] . . ....
...EU v Poland latest Brussels has opened a new front in its battle with Warsaw, launching infringement proceedings related to the country's contested supreme court overhaul (FT)....
...When she does express herself openly, it is usually in set-piece speeches or bland conversations with diplomats or subjects....
...Amsterdam v Airbnb Amsterdam, which is expecting 18m tourists this year, wants to ban the accommodation sharing service from parts of the city....
...“The western idea of beauty comes from a Greek tradition of perfection, harmony and symmetry....
...It’s a foodie-theme park covering acres — I pass Starbucks, curry houses, a “Spanish bodega” and a period Pearl River Delta liner converted into “The Cruise Inn”....
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