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...Additional reporting by Robert Wright....
...“Golden visas are an insane programme because obviously they are conduits for importing organised crime into the European Union,” says Portuguese politician and former MEP Ana Gomes....
...“Unsurprisingly, over 80 per cent of them fear they could be a victim of homicide in the next 12 months,” says Robert Muggah, a director at the Igarapé Institute....
...But the leading candidate from Brazil’s centre left, Ciro Gomes, has already publicly opposed the deal....
...“In the past we were just serving businesses,” said Belmiro Gomes, chief executive of Assaí....
...No wonder Robert Carsen’s production chooses nostalgia as its defining theme....
...It purchased the UK rights to Arabian Nights, a film about the eurozone crisis directed by Miguel Gomes, one of Portugal’s most prominent film directors, and received plaudits at this year’s Cannes Film...
...Edinburgh Mr James Best, University of Edinburgh Prof Jane Binner, University of Birmingham Dr George Bratsiotis, University of Manchester Dr Sean Brocklebank, University of Edinburgh Prof Miguel Costa-Gomes...
...“They transformed our business in 2013,” says Mr Roberts, whose firm sold properties worth about €50m to Chinese that year....
...“The climate keeps stimulating demand,” says Oswaldo Gomes da Cruz Jr, director of marketing at the 50-year-old company....
...There were conflicting reports about what had happened to Carlos Gomes Junior, who was widely expected to win the April 29 presidential vote....
...There may well be threats of outside intervention, because this is the only way the army can really be put in their place and their baleful influence eroded,” Martin Roberts, an analyst at IHS Global Insight...
...Paterfamilias Robert Duvall interacts with three variedly dysfunctional sons, all war veterans, in 1969 Alabama....
...Robert Cookson is the FT’s Asia markets correspondent....
...The Gome and Buynow cases mark the first time Microsoft is suing retailers in China, lawyers said....
...The same occasionally hallucinatory feeling pervades Tabu by the Portuguese film-maker Miguel Gomes. Framed by an old lady’s decline into fantasy (dementia again?)...
...Gome reappointed the three directors and on Tuesday shareholders formally re-elected them....
...Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has had its share of headaches after investing $112m in 2007 in China’s Tianrui Cement, amid well-publicised squabbles with the company’s founder....
...No Robert Mapplethorpe nudes, but a wall of copycat homo-erotic portraits, “Beach Triptych”, shot by Alair Gomes from a vantage point overlooking Rio de Janeiro beach....
...The Financial Times reported earlier this month that the deal was looming and that Bain Capital had eclipsed Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Warburg Pincus, two US private equity rivals, in the battle to become...
...Bain Capital eclipsed Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Warburg Pincus, two US private equity rivals, in the battle to become Gome’s partner....
...He points out that he decided against investing in Gome, the electronics retailer, after meetings with executives left him uncomfortable with its management and accounting....
...Confidence picked up last month when Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the US fund, acquired South Korea’s Oriental Brewery for $1.8bn, the largest leveraged buy-out in Asia for two years....
...In Asia, KKR is rumoured to be vying with other private equity groups to acquire as much as 20 per cent of China’s fast-growing Gome electronics retail chain....
...Robert Schumann’s Traumerei inspired Time, Craig Salstein’s recent solo for Michele Wiles. Unpretentious and given a nuanced performance, it impressed as a first effort....
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