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...newsletter What the Vice bankruptcy says about private equity Icahn vs Illumina The Cayman Islands takes on Singapore and Hong Kong Vice, TPG and a private equity reckoning More than a decade ago, by Shane...
...The more Sinicised and mainland it becomes, the more it could be seen as a part of greater China,” says Thompson. “It is an existential risk.”...
...(Vox Recode) We always want to hear your thoughts and feedback, so drop me a line at jennifer.thompson@ft.com or email us at longstoryshort@ft.com — and have a lovely weekend....
...A series of exhibition matches in 2015, organised by cricketing legends Shane Warne and Sachin Tendulkar amounted to little....
...But owner Michael Thompson said the “wheels started to fall off” late last month as Chinese families cancelled often-lavish new year banquets and food markets were closed over safety fears....
...Additional reporting by Nic Fildes, Attracta Mooney, Ben McLannahan and Barney Thompson...
...Shane McGowan’s “Fairytale of New York”, complete with a shaggy-dog tale of drinking with the author, is pitch perfect....
...Shane Smith, Vice’s 44-year-old hard-partying chief executive, co-founder and largest shareholder, dislikes the word “gonzo” to describe Vice’s style of journalism....
...Additional reporting by Jennifer Thompson in Tokyo...
...“In terms of regulation the [tobacco] industry doesn’t mind tax increases or even smoking bans because they’re predictable,” says Shane MacGuill, a tobacco analyst at Euromonitor....
...When I explain this to Shane Smith, hard-partying co-founder and chief executive of Vice Media, his response lifts the spirits on a gloomy winter’s day in southern California....
...Shane MacGuill, tobacco analyst at Euromonitor, says: “What’s key to tobacco companies’ earnings in Europe is the ability to innovate and ‘premiumise’ their products....
...DAY ONE 9:00 am-9:05 am Chair’s Opening Remarks Richard Waters, West Coast Managing Editor, Financial Times – Conference Chair 9:05 am-9:45 am Opening speech Mark Thompson, Director-General, BBC 9:45...
...Steve Olejnik from Mortgages for Business and Stephen Ludlow from Ludlow Thompson answer questions on the UK buy to let market and the best loans to take out. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………… I...
...So is Michael Simkins, author of Fatty Batter, a cricket memoir in the vein of Harry Thompson’s Penguins Stopped Play, an enjoyably self-deprecating account of life as a cricketing obsessive....
...The lugubrious Harris, toting a shotgun under his raincoat as embarrassedly as if it were an erection, could have come from one of Shane Meadows’s mournful gangland comedies....
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