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Three of China's most successful businessmen talk to the FT's Patti Waldmeir about their rags-to-riches stories, the difficulties they had to overcome and their recipe for a successful life. Hosted on...

10 Sep 20154min

United Continental Holdings announced on Tuesday that the US airline's chief executive Jeff Smisek would resign in connection with a federal investigation linked to a key ally of New Jersey Governor C...

9 Sep 20159min

Modern life forces us to do a multitude of things at once - but can we? Should we? Tim Harford, the Undercover Economist who has 150 things on his to-do list, talks to the editor of the FT Weekend Mag...

4 Sep 201511min

Henry Mance looks at how Europe woke up to the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, how we can learn to multitask better, and whether the banking industry is still just as broken as it was before the ...

3 Sep 201511min

China appears set to reveal a weapon so formidable it could upset the balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region. The missile is likely to be wheeled through Beijing at a parade marking the second wo...

2 Sep 20156min

Europe is facing its biggest refugee crisis in decades, with Germany assuming the greatest burden for absorbing the asylum seekers. Gideon Rachman talks to Jeevan Vasagar, FT correspondent in Berlin, ...

2 Sep 20157min

A bid by China’s Anbang Insurance to buy Novo Banco has collapsed, leaving the future of Portugal's biggest retail bank up in the air. Patrick Jenkins, the FT's financial editor, discusses the implica...

1 Sep 20155min

Hundreds of thousands of companies operating in Russia have been thrown into confusion by new data privacy rules that will help Moscow expand surveillance of its citizens. Kathrin Hille, Moscow Bureau...

31 Aug 20155min