Sun Belt Land Investments GP

China sends finance experts to tackle regions’ debts

...A meaningful debt resolution would reshape the regional investment and financing landscape, but would also trigger the repricing of locally raised bonds and could affect the shares of regional banks that...

August 11, 2023

News in-depthChinese economy

China’s local governments boost revenue by selling land to their own entities

...Cash-strapped local governments in China artificially boosted their revenues last year by selling swaths of land to their own investment vehicles, an official think-tank said, raising concerns about the...

March 9, 2023

FT Live

Commodities Asia Summit

Enabling decarbonisation in a time of disrupted trade flows

FT Magazine

Battle for the American West

...In the pre-GPS Old West, a series of “range wars” bloodied these plains as frontiersmen battled for land, largely unbothered by legal ownership....

April 13, 2024

Person in the News

Hui Ka Yan: the Evergrande tycoon faces his downfall

...With additional reporting by Cheng Leng in Hong Kong, Ryan McMorrow in Beijing and Sun Yu in New York...

February 3, 2024

Personal Finance

Shedding light on the finances of solar panels

...FT Money looks at the main factors that will determine whether an investment in solar works....

February 9, 2024

Transcript

Transcript: This bond market rally is epic

...Sun Yu The Chinese authority has been trying very hard to sort of shift the economic model from one that is driven by investment to one that is driven more by consumption....

December 21, 2023

FT Live

FTWeekend Festival

Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life

Special ReportInvesting in Japan

Sun rises on resurgent Japanese art market

...While Japan’s economy is hardly booming post-Covid, it is relatively stable and open to overseas investment after decades of tighter controls....

October 1, 2023

FT SeriesBritain’s infrastructure impasse

Birmingham pays the price for UK’s infrastructure gap

...In places with lower land values and poorer infrastructure, developers often struggle to make schemes commercially viable in the first instance — particularly in post-industrial areas, where land requires...

January 25, 2024

Transcript

Transcript: Episode 3 — Sun, guns and sangria

...Episode 3: Sun, Guns and Sangria....

December 7, 2023

South Korea Politics & Policy

South Korea shoots for the stars in Asia’s space race

...“An interoperable KPS-GPS capability, with South Korea hosting GPS military payloads on KPS satellites, would offer heightened precision over North Korea and swaths of Russia and China,” said Wilson....

November 12, 2023

FT Magazine

Why are fake plants suddenly everywhere?

...A fairy-tale land, one of eternal summer. Looks great on Instagram. But just like my mum with her lily, we’re being deceived. Artificial plants have always been with us....

April 19, 2024

The Big Read

The looming trade tensions over China’s subsidies

...Edward White in Shanghai Letter in response to this article: In China trade war, beware those geopolitical grinches / From Simon J Evenett, Professor of Economics, University of St Gallen, Switzerland...

January 30, 2024

The Big Read

The breakdown of China’s social contract

...The flats across the road are being torn down because they were constructed years ago on former village land without the correct zoning, she says....

November 2, 2023

The Big Read

The precarious future facing Brazil’s new boomtowns

...Migration, particularly from the country’s southern states, fuelled the growth of Mato Grosso’s agricultural belt....

March 10, 2024

Special ReportInvesting in America

‘Our secret weapon’: how a university bolstered Phoenix’s rise as US chip capital

...In the city’s north-west, its burgeoning plants are rapidly growing out of a plot of land larger than New York City’s Central Park....

November 2, 2023

FT Live

TNW Conference 2024 - The Next Web

Europe’s leading tech event for corporates, startups, investors and governments

Travel

White sands and pink dolphins on an Amazon adventure

...At least a third of all land deforested and planted, he suggested, becomes abandoned and barren within a few years....

January 6, 2024

Travel

My cowgirl weekend in Fort Worth

...The sun in Texas was strong, I rationalised. And dang it if it didn’t suit me....

March 2, 2024

Travel

Our family adventure cycling France’s Atlantic coast — with ‘chariot’ in tow

...By sea it was tantalisingly close; by land it was going to be a 45km-plus, all-day slog. The border of the Vendée sits around 10km south of Pornic....

February 8, 2024

Simon Edelsten

Finding good investment returns in ill winds

...It means something like: “The neighbour’s tree may have fallen in the gale, but at least our garden will get more sun now!”...

December 8, 2023

Transcript

A year of the Inflation Reduction Act

...And that’s making it very difficult for the local authorities to sell land....

August 16, 2023

Camilla Cavendish

Why having a Gen Z child means parenting an adult

...Or perhaps the modern parent, screaming at their child on the touchline or doing their homework for them, is expecting a more sharply delineated return on investment....

February 17, 2024

Hong Kong economy

Hong Kong developer declares end of ‘golden era’ for housing profits

...Chinachem has made a series of investments in the UK over the past two years....

October 24, 2023

News in-depthNikkei Asia

Cambodia vexes Vietnam with plan to divert Mekong trade via China-built canal

...Further up the coast from Kampot, the new canal would allow easy access to and from the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone, a recipient of significant Chinese Belt and Road Initiative investment, and the...

March 21, 2024

The Big Read

How to make space-based solar power a reality

...With sufficient investment, adds Sanjay Vijendran, who leads the European Space Agency’s Solaris project, “space solar power could be available sooner than fusion”....

October 17, 2023

News in-depthUK by-elections

Three-way by-election battle offers hope to Tories as Lib Dems scrap with Labour

...Akinbusoye said: “Keir Starmer has been talking about building on the ‘grey belt’. What the hell is that? People are so fed up with top-down housing targets.”...

October 17, 2023

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