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April 21, 2024

Vietnam names Vo Thi Anh Xuan interim president as corruption purge deepens

...Vietnam’s vice-president Vo Thi Anh Xuan has been appointed interim president, after her predecessor resigned amid a corruption purge that has fuelled concerns about political stability in one of Asia’s...

March 21, 2024

FT Live

Finance Disrupted at TNW Conference

Shaking The Foundations Of Finance | Formerly Future of Finance

Vietnam

Vietnam’s political turmoil deepens as president resigns

...“This causes hesitancy for foreign companies who want to make big investments in Vietnam,” he said....

March 20, 2024

Leo Lewis

Are we at peak K-pop? Goldman doesn’t think so

...Several big, powerful industries come out of this U-turn looking flattened; the K-pop entourage emerges as the steamroller. Investors, meanwhile, have chosen to treat all of this as markers of a peak....

April 4, 2024

Russia

How Ukraine war distracted Moscow from Isis-K threat

...A spokesperson for the US National Security Council said Isis bore “sole responsibility for this attack”. “There was no Ukrainian involvement whatsoever,” Adrienne Watson said....

March 24, 2024

InterviewTheatre

Minority Report and the rise of sci-fi on stage

...The question comes partway through Steven Spielberg’s 2002 film adaptation of Philip K Dick’s novella The Minority Report....

February 13, 2024

FT Live

Innovation in Wealth Management Summit

Augmented intelligence for client-centric services

Jayasree K Iyer

There are far too many avoidable deaths in childbirth

...This unacceptable death toll is especially high in sub-Saharan Africa. But it doesn’t have to be this way....

January 17, 2024

Bridge - Card game

Bridge: aggressive auction leads to ambitious contract requiring expert play

...South cashed A♦ and K♠ and went over to dummy with A♠ to play K♦, throwing a spade from hand. When this held, this is trick 11. For his 12th trick, he led dummy’s fourth diamond....

April 17, 2024

News in-depthTerrorism

How the Taliban’s return made Afghanistan a hub for global jihadis

...This has included operations in Europe either directed or inspired by Isis-K....

March 27, 2024

Bridge - Card game

Bridge: Silence from opponent marks partner with key card

...BiddingDealer: SouthE/W Game East could have raised to 2S — and many would — but, at this vulnerability, it seems a risky option. West led K♠....

March 20, 2024

Due Diligence

PE+QE made K&E. Will it last? Premium

...In today’s newsletter: Kirkland & Ellis confronts a dealmaking slowdown The PE dealmaker who’s everywhere right now KKR jumps on a deal Carlyle snubbed QE+PE= K&E Chicago law firm Kirkland & Ellis has...

December 13, 2023

InterviewHybe

The music label behind BTS is trying to recreate the K-pop ‘production system’ in US

...Hybe this year failed to acquire SM Entertainment, the K-pop record label behind boy band EXO and girl group Aespa....

December 24, 2023

HTSIHow To Spend It Wisely: the sustainability special 2023

Meet Daisy — she wants your waste tech

...As Ternus suggests, much of this work goes uncelebrated....

October 17, 2023

Bridge - Card game

Bridge: determined player’s aggressive bid sets challenge to bring home thin contract

...One method might be to lay down A♦ in case West holds a singleton K♦ but, here, this fails, as West’s ♦J74 becomes a third-round winner....

March 6, 2024

Bridge - Card game

Cheap first trick subsequently costs contract

...On this and his final two clubs, three diamonds can be pitched from hand, and the small slam succeeds....

April 23, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Bridge - Card game

Ambitious slam looks set to fail on 4-0 trump break: perfect timing is required

...West led K♥ and declarer’s plan was simple: cash A♦, ruff two low diamonds in dummy, draw trumps, and score up the slam. On the bidding, the distribution suited this plan....

April 3, 2024

Bridge - Card game

True skill is demonstrated when luck deserts you

...When this loses, East can cash K♠ and lead Q♦, but declarer has time to win A♦, cash J♣, cross to dummy with J♥, and then play A♣ on which he can discard a diamond loser....

March 27, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

Islamist terror returns to Russia

...The US has pointed the finger at Isis, and officials have confirmed they had intelligence this month suggesting Isis-K was planning an imminent attack in Moscow — which they shared with Russia under a “duty...

March 25, 2024

News updates from March 14: Chuck Schumer calls for Netanyahu’s replacement; China hits out at US push to ban TikTok as Steven Mnuchin plots bid

Risers and fallers in Europe

...can return this year”....

March 14, 2024

Travel

Back to Georgia, where ‘a guest is a gift from God’

...If you read this in a novel, you might criticise the author for a “convenient” twist of the plot. But it really happened this way....

March 7, 2024

Skechers USA Inc

Skechers’ family troubles

...This outcome is consistent with the results of our previously announced internal review and the corrective disclosures made over the course of last year....

March 8, 2024

Inside BusinessAnna Nicolaou

The last of pop’s superstars?

...Without this gatekeeper, it’s harder for them to predict the next hit. There is one massive exception to all this: K-pop and J-Pop....

April 11, 2024

Letter

Letter: Snails, not naked clams, are the real superfood

...David Willer’s article “To save the oceans, start eating ‘naked clams’” (Opinion, April 4) and the claim that this product was suitable for processing as nuggets, fishcakes and battered food made me sad....

April 10, 2024

War in Ukraine

Poland arrests man suspected of aiding Russia in plot to kill Zelenskyy

...The SBU said its agents and Ukrainian prosecutors had informed their Polish counterparts about the possible assassination plot and provided critical evidence in this case ahead of the arrest of Paweł K....

April 18, 2024

FT Magazine

‘We’re all maggots’: an audience with Jim Riswold, the copywriter behind some of Nike’s greatest adverts

...Sometimes this blurring of lines was obvious....

March 9, 2024

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