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...In Annecy, a medieval town on a lake surrounded by mountains, there are four times as many short-term rentals in the old town today compared with five years ago, said mayor François Astorg....
...In both town and country, the presence of local, independent business is taken as an indicator of all manner of desirable goods: community, like-mindedness, affluence, quality, sustainability....
...But that hasn’t put off wealthy retirees relocating for fiscal reasons, from mainly Geneva, France or the Benelux countries....
...At the end of the night, back at my apartment, I’m stuffed, I’m tired and I realise yet again that this town gives you everything you could possibly need, and then some. Goodnight, New York....
...“It feels like a historic moment,” says co-founder Phoebe Saatchi Yates of the country’s participation....
...If completed it would be one of the country’s largest export terminals....
...In the town centre, “the queue of new customers by the deli is out of the door every lunchtime”, said Simon Crowe, Darlington-based director of the UK-wide architectural practice Corstorphine & Wright....
...Under an agreement signed in the seaside town of Saltsjöbaden in 1938, unions and employer organisations jointly set everything from wages to working conditions in each industry, and the government cannot...
...The country’s luxury brands are facing a succession crisis, the FT’s Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli reports, as a lack of domestic investment makes them ripe for foreign takeovers....
...Over those same decades, the Brits escaping suburbs and grey country towns met modern life in Soho....
...When selling books, “there are more differences within the countries than there are between the countries,” he said....
...The researchers, from the UK’s Francis Crick Institute, the universities of Cambridge, Liverpool and Cape Town, Imperial College London and the UK Health Security Agency, matched the signature in these mutations...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on November 23. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...There are some great secondhand shops, and we like Hot Numbers for coffee, Arjuna health food store and Meadows deli for treats....
...On the outskirts of the town on the banks of the Charente river, La Nauve is a former distillery that’s been converted into a 12-suite hotel....
...Almost immediately, Fraser went on a tour of the country, personally delivering the bad news of redundancies to the offices where much of the mortgage operations were based....
...We have incredibly high ambitions for this bank and, the train, it’s gonna move fast,” Fraser told employees at a town-hall meeting last week, according to people who heard the remarks....
...Others, such as Unilever and PepsiCo, have opted to keep up partial operations in the country....
...Across town, the electric-truck maker has opened a high-end showroom in New York’s Meatpacking District. The storefront is a 10-minute walk from Lucid Motors’ showroom in the same trendy hamlet....
...That deal sparked accusations from human rights organisations that its vast sums were being used to soften the image of a country accused of human rights abuses....
...“We get together every Tuesday to ride around the small town bars,” he says, but admits he is the youngest in the group “by about 20 or 30 years”....
...The CEOs of several global chipmakers, including Micron and Intel, were in town to promote their latest AI ventures and to meet key supply chain partners and clients....
...At a union-wide town hall meeting with members on Friday, Shawn Fain said he “will not accept any concessions” in their contract negotiations later this year....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on May 12 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...WaPo’s figures come from an article Cohan wrote for Inc, an American business magazine....
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