Hints and tips:
...“The company still hasn’t found a good commercialisation model,” said Miro Li, founder of the Hong Kong-based brand consultancy Double V. “This will be a problem in the long term.”...
...Arguably far more important, as Carl Henrik Knutsen notes in a 2019 briefing note for the V-Dem Institute, the outcomes of autocracy show much higher variance....
...Li feared the worst, but the ticket collector merely waved him through, signalling his support for the protesters by making a V sign with his hand and smiling....
...And they said that the problem is that there's not necessarily an account in Switzerland saying, V Putin, $50bn Swiss francs. That's not how it works....
...“The economic development in the first two months was affected by the outbreak of Covid-19,” said Mao Shengyong at the National Bureau of Statistics....
...“May a love arrive,” sings Santtana, “and stir up the sea . . . ” and then, on “Seu Pai”, co-written with Arto Lindsay, “Your Dad was a crook/but you appeared.”...
...(El País) mehreen.khan@ft.com ; @mehreenkhn...
...According to one senior executive in the territory who has attended many such events, the party’s favourite patriots invariably — to use the Chinese phrase — pai ma pi or “pat the horse’s rump”....
...They might respond: How many times do institutions like MoMA, The Smithsonian or the V&A have to spotlight gaming before the medium is taken seriously?...
...Seasonal appeal Investors v poachers Wildlife conservation finance, for decades the preserve of wealthy donors and governments, is now attracting institutional investors....
...But now, as they face the prospect of the first quarter of zero or negative growth since the chaos of Mao Zedong’s cultural revolution, they are closely watching the numbers of trucks rumbling in and out...
...PAI Partners has hired Maud Brown, a former managing director at Investcorp, as a partner to head up its New York office....
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...BoE v Treasury The FT splashes on in-fighting between the UK’s Treasury and Bank of England over the City’s access to the EU after Brexit....
...First, a scoop to start: French private equity firm PAI Partners is set to unveil plans to acquire Dutch soft drink bottling firm Refresco Group in a deal which is expected to value the Amsterdam-listed...
...El País reports Mr Puigdemont and his separatists now want to create an international branch of pro-independence institutions to push their cause abroad....
...Ajit Pai, the new pro-business FCC chairman, seems happy to help big broadcasters....
...“An extreme Brexit: May jumps into the void”, ran the title of the editorial in El País, the left-leaning Spanish newspaper....
...Of Mao suits and Nehru collars? It is, of course, an impossible question....
...[People like me] were called xiao yao pai, which means the ‘good-for-nothing guys’, because we did not have a clear political position.” This turned out to be a fortuitous decision....
...It is now the People v George Osborne. His enemy is austerity fatigue among precisely the reasonable swing voters who backed him in May....
...Even with what we Chinese call a “Mediterranean bald patch” in the middle, Mao’s remaining tresses are jet black....
...It also hosted the unforgotten England v Argentina match of the 1998 World Cup....
...As Liang Ya Pai pulls out a nautical map of the South China Sea, he points to a string of resource-rich islands claimed by both Hanoi and Beijing....
...“We are confident that Permira V has the right strategy to enable us to continue investing wisely in the current environment,” Tom Lister, Permira’s US-based co-managing partner, said in a statement....
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