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  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Hizbollah
    Hizbollah vows to retaliate against Israel over pager explosions

    Militants say they will continue attacks near Lebanon’s border with Israel after sabotage of communications devices kills 12

    updated
    Civil defence first-responders carry a wounded man whose handheld pager exploded
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Sheikh Hasina
    Britain asked to investigate assets linked to ousted Bangladeshi regime

    Dhaka central bank probes whether allies of autocrat Sheikh Hasina diverted upwards of £13bn overseas

  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Global Economy
    South Korea emerges as a top US investor as China tensions escalate

    US project commitments from South Korean companies totalled $21.5bn last year, more than any other country

    The Hyundai electric-vehicle and battery manufacturing plant under construction in Ellabell, Georgia
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    The FT foreign correspondents’ guide to business dining around the world

    The top tables for breaking bread and sealing deals in great global cities

    A group of business men in suits sitting around a restaurant table chatting.
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    News in-depthClimate Capital
    Chinese solar panel boom threatens Pakistan’s debt-ridden grid

    Industry rushes to switch to clean energy as cost of state power network becomes crippling

    A worker carries a solar panel plate at a market in Lahore
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Behind the Money podcast19 min listen
    How a 7-Eleven takeover could reshape corporate Japan

    Companies in Japan have long avoided foreign acquisitions, but that could be changing

  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    News in-depthShein
    How China’s ‘Shein village’ grabbed the fast fashion supply chain

    Thousands of factories depend on the retailer but rivals are putting pressure on a model based on speed and thin margins

    A large room full of piles of bundled clothing products
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Nippon Steel
    US delays decision on Nippon Steel’s $15bn takeover of US Steel

    Japanese group wins extension to probe of deal that is opposed by Biden, Harris and Trump

    Smoke and steam rises from a US Steel facility in Clairton, Pennsylvania
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East conflict
    Exploding pagers join long history of killer communications devices

    Israel, blamed by Hizbollah for Tuesday’s attack, has long used telephones and their successors to track and kill enemies

    CCTV footage of a man’s bag exploding in a Beirut supermarket on Tuesday, left
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    Middle East conflict
    Israel adds securing northern front against Hizbollah to war aims

    Decision increases fears about escalation of conflict with Lebanese militants

    Smoke rises above a hilly landscape as seen from Israel's border with Lebanon. Black and white smoke plumes are visible amid the terrain
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    Chess
    India well placed for first Olympiad gold as US falters

    Puzzle: find White’s endgame win

    Two chess grandmasters shake hands over the board before their match begins
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    LexMidea
    The great aircon paradox will keep this Hong Kong IPO simmering Premium content

    Midea would have found the public markets less welcoming had it listed 5 years ago

    Fang Hongbo, chair and CEO of Midea, at the group’s listing ceremony in Hong Kong on Tuesday
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    PwC
    PwC China stops work on $140mn campus as Evergrande crisis mounts

    Lavish training institute on tropical island under review as firm reels from fallout from its audits of failed property developer

    A partially constructed building with exposed concrete and support beams, surrounded by construction materials
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    US-China trade dispute
    US and Japan near deal to curb chip technology exports to China

    Potential agreement comes despite fears Beijing will choke critical minerals supplies in response

    A close-up of a hand with blue gloves holding a chip fabricated in China by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp.
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    Revolut Ltd
    Revolut prepares for India launch next year

    Fintech has not previously offered app or currency cards in country despite having 4,000 staff present

    A street vendor looks at his mobile phone in Bengaluru, India
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    News in-depthSouth Korean business & finance
    From steel to kimchi, South Korean exporters face flood of Chinese rivals

    Overproduction, tariffs and weak demand increase competition with a glut of low-cost goods

    Workers wash cabbage in a kimchi factory in Yeoncheon, South Korea
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Markets InsightGene Frieda
    Emerging markets has become a redundant term

    Innovations around EM indices are required with more thematic benchmarks

    People walk below Oriental Pearl Tower in the Liuiazui financial hub, in Shanghai
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    TikTok Inc
    TikTok warns of ‘staggering’ consequences from US divest-or-ban law

    App’s lawyer urges a federal appeals court to throw out rule requiring its Chinese owner to divest it or be shut down

    A TikTok advocate wears a button showing support for the app outside of the courthouse in Washington where the appeal is being hear
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Masoud Pezeshkian
    Iran’s new president signals readiness to resume nuclear talks with west

    Masoud Pezeshkian uses first press conference to deny sending missiles to Russia for Ukraine war

    Masoud Pezeshkian gestures as he speaks to reporters during his press conference in Tehran
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Taiwan
    Taiwan regulator blocks hostile bank takeover to clear way for rival deal

    Planned $17bn friendly tie-up between Shin Kong and Taishin would be country’s biggest financial sector merger

    Welch Lin, president of Taishin Financial Holding,  standing by a window
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Yen
    Yen strengthens past ¥140 against dollar ahead of rate decisions

    Japanese currency rises as US Fed prepares to cut rates this week

    Pedestrians in central Tokyo
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Gideon Rachman
    China, America and a global struggle for power and influence

    The whole world risks losing from the rivalry between Washington and Beijing

    A James Ferguson illustration of a bullet train passing through a landscape at dusk with Mount Fiji in the background, a bald eagle hovering above and some stars in the sky in the shape of the Chinese national flag
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Indian business & finance
    India’s top shadow bank lists housing finance arm in blockbuster $782mn IPO

    Shares of Bajaj Housing Finance shot up by as much as 130% on trading debut

    Sanjiv Bajaj speaks into a microphone while seated on stage
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why Russia’s increased co-operation with China and Iran spooks Europe Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: EU asylum applications stable amid frenzied immigration debate

    Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hand of Ali Akbar Ahmadian
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Shein
    Shein faces greater political scrutiny ahead of planned London IPO

    Labour MP calls for UK government to ban imported products made by forced labour in Chinese region of Xinjiang

    Clothes at the Shein pop-up store in New York
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