Hints and tips:
...But both could face decades in prison for their respective roles in the 1MDB scandal, Bloomberg reports....
...Though the scrappy broker turned Manhattan mogul was the chief villain, Wall Street and the financial capitals of Europe were tarnished, too....
...The FT View is that China’s national security law has reopened the race for Asia’s premier financial centre....
...TSMC’s former chief operating officer, Chiang Shang-yi, and research and development executive Liang Mong-song have taken high-ranking roles at state-affiliated companies in China....
...Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has a five-year-old daughter, remains in prison....
...Instead they spent every night traipsing around the red-light district or sitting in shoddy tourist-trap coffeeshops....
...My abiding image: a proud Afrikaner-Namibian holding up a Walvis Bay red fish, beaming from top to toe....
...“It’s right up there with the South China Sea as a longer-term threat to peace and stability in the region,” says Richard Cronin of the Stimson Center, an international security think-tank in Washington...
...Another pointless day out of the thousands I’ve already spent, first in prison, and now here in the general regime [low security] colony 100km from the Finnish border....
...I crunch my way into the restaurant and wait for Saad Mohseni, television impresario, multimillion-dollar dealmaker and chief protagonist in Afghanistan’s culture wars....
...“Only the top five people in Shandong, for example, could see the Public Security Bureau figures: the party secretary and the governor and their deputies, and the police chief.”...
...In particular, with California $24bn in the red, hanging over Calpers is the spectre of the state and local employers trying to restrict their contributions in a year of negative returns on its assets....
...Leslie Crawford is the FT’s Madrid bureau chief. Whose side are they on?...
...Richard McGregor, Beijing....
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