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• Shein wins nod from UK regulators for London IPO

  11-04-2025 13:53
  FCA’s preliminary approval comes as the fast-fashion company faces challenges from Trump’s tariffs
  
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• South Korea’s female freedivers: TV has made stars of the haenyeo but what is their real story?

  15-05-2025 10:00
  
  The craze for Korean culture has brought fame to the ‘women of the sea’, but not always to their benefit. Now they want to reclaim their stories to inspire a new generationThere is an episode in the Netflix drama When Life Gives You Tangerines where a woman dives into the sea and brings back a catch of abalone (sea snails), which she says will feed her family. The woman is a haenyeo. Haenyeo, or “women of the sea”, have been recorded as far back as the 17th century and ar
  
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• Endangered New Zealand bird caught fighting ‘at risk’ reptile in rare footage

  15-05-2025 06:47
  
  A video shows the large flightless takahē bird in hot pursuit of the tuatara – but the tables soon turnTwo of New Zealand’s most rare and beloved animals – a large flightless takahē bird and an ancient tuatara reptile – have been captured chasing and nipping at one another during a bush-floor melee.Nick Fisentzidis, a department of conservation ranger on the pest-free Tiritiri Matangi Island near Auckland, saw the takahē attack the tuatara and quickly grabb
  
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• Why China’s cash-rich battery king needs a blockbuster share sale

  15-05-2025 06:00
  CATL’s Hong Kong secondary listing set to raise $4.6bn and would be world’s biggest so far this year
  
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• India and Pakistan: what now?

  15-05-2025 06:00
  
  The nuclear-armed neighbours have come back from the brink, but can the peace hold?
  
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• WTO chief warns US bilateral tariff deals could put trade principle at risk

  15-05-2025 04:21
  Comments from Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala highlight concern that pacts may undermine ‘most favoured nation’ equality concept
  
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• Vietnam faces the heat over Chinese tariff ‘backdoor’ to US

  15-05-2025 04:15
  
  Chinese exports to south-east Asia surge as producers reroute shipments to avoid Donald Trump’s levies
  
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• New Zealand MPs who performed haka in parliament given unprecedented punishment

  15-05-2025 03:34
  Te Pāti Māori co-leaders and youngest member to be temporarily suspended from parliament after performance protesting controversial billThree New Zealand MPs who performed a haka in parliament will be temporarily suspended, in what is believed to be the harshest ever penalty issued to parliamentarians.The co-leaders of Te Pāti Māori (the Māori Party) Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi, and the party’s youngest member, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, performed the
  
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• FirstFT: Wall Street’s dramatic rebound catches big investors off-guard

  14-05-2025 23:42
  
  Also in today’s newsletter, western carmakers risk wipeout in China, and Qatar orders up to 210 Boeing jets
  
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• Toy group VTech to move production out of China despite tariff reprieve

  14-05-2025 16:44
  
  Hong Kong-based group pushes ahead with plan to shift US-bound production and warns US consumers face higher prices
  
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• Western carmakers risk wipeout in China, warns Jeep owner Stellantis

  14-05-2025 16:17
  Maxime Picat, one of two internal candidates for next group CEO, ‘shocked’ at foreign groups’ loss of market share
  
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• US to cut tariffs on low-value goods from China to as low as 30%

  14-05-2025 15:12
  Executive order will offer to relief to Chinese firms Shein and Temu, but insiders say e-commerce ‘golden age’ is goneThe US will cut the “de minimis” tariff for low-value shipments from China to as low as 30%, according to a White House executive order and industry experts, further de-escalating a potentially damaging trade war between the world’s two largest economies.The order published late on Monday offers some relief to big Chinese e-commerce players Shein and
  
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• Taiwan’s double, double toil and trouble

  14-05-2025 13:29
  
  Quite the predicament
  
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• Japan’s hotel boom faces reality check

  14-05-2025 13:09
  
  As regulatory scrutiny intensifies and cost pressures rise, headline growth alone may not be a good guide to the future
  
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• China’s Baidu in talks to launch robotaxis in Europe

  14-05-2025 13:09
  
  Beijing-based tech rival to Google seeks to test self-driving vehicles in Switzerland and Turkey
  
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• China issues warning to UK over terms of US trade deal

  14-05-2025 11:10
  UK accused of aligning with US in move that could compel firms to exclude Chinese products from supply chainsUK politics live – latest updatesChina has warned the UK over its new trade deal with the US, accusing Britain of aligning with the US in a move that could compel British companies to exclude Chinese products from their supply chains.The UK-US trade deal, signed last week, offers Britain limited relief from US tariffs on car and steel exports, but only if it complies with strict Ame
  
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• After chaos of the Yoon era, South Korea prepares to pick a new president

  14-05-2025 07:22
  
  Koreans hope politics can return to a focus on record high youth unemployment and a cost of living crisis after impeachment dramaAfter the unprecedented turmoil of the past six months, South Koreans could be forgiven for breathing a collective sigh of relief that the political focus has shifted from an impeachment crisis to economic policy ahead of next month’s presidential election.The economy is expected to dominate the campaign to elect a new president on 3 June, after the impeachment o
  
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• Exporters ‘shocked and elated’ as China trade cranks back into gear

  14-05-2025 06:58
  Businesses fear agreement between Washington and Beijing to slash levies offers only temporary reprieve
  
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• US warns against using Huawei chips ‘anywhere in the world’

  14-05-2025 06:33
  Commerce department guidance aims to toughen export controls on tech used by China to make AI processors
  
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• US-China trade ceasefire to drive early Christmas stockpiling

  14-05-2025 06:00
  Ports and shipping companies expect surge in demand as retailers take advantage of lower tariffs on Chinese imports
  
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• My top 10: Jan Dalley’s guide to Hong Kong’s M+ Museum

  14-05-2025 06:00
  The FT’s former arts editor picks the greatest hits of a young gallery that houses a major collection of East Asian modern art and design
  
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• If the US wants more rare earths, it needs to tackle refining

  14-05-2025 06:00
  China has an unmatched dominance in the processing of critical commodities
  
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• How China’s Comac could reshape aviation

  14-05-2025 01:01
  Even if it doesn’t challenge Airbus or Boeing on the global stage, strong domestic growth will boost the aircraft maker
  
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• FirstFT: China criticises US-UK trade deal

  14-05-2025 00:01
  
  Also in today’s newsletter, Trump hails US-Saudi Arabia relationship, and Nissan to cut 15 per cent of global jobs
  
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• China criticises UK trade deal with US

  13-05-2025 22:00
  Security conditions in pact agreed by Trump and Starmer seen as targeting Beijing
  
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• China attacks UK trade deal with US

  13-05-2025 22:00
  Security conditions in pact agreed by Trump and Starmer seen as targeting Beijing
  
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• US puts sanctions on companies alleged to be shipping Iranian oil to China

  13-05-2025 21:00
  Measures come as Donald Trump offers olive branch to regime in Tehran
  
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• The challenge of using excess global savings

  13-05-2025 17:33
  We now seem unable to turn the surplus in some countries into productive investment elsewhere
  
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• China’s Xi backs Panama against US over canal

  13-05-2025 14:51
  Chinese president offers greater co-operation with Latin American countries
  
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• Foreigners snap up $57bn in Japan assets in ‘liberation day’ rush

  13-05-2025 12:33
  Investors buy a record amount of Japanese equities and bonds during April
  
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