European leaders convene emergency summit on Ukraine
Rising violence in eastern Ukraine has prompted the leaders of France, Germany and Ukraine to convene an emergency summit to try to halt the fighting; at the same time Kiev's talks with its creditors ...
19 Aug 20158min
Amazon denies work hard, weep hard culture
Jeff Bezos, Amazon's chief executive, has been forced on the defensive over stinging allegations about the retail company's management style. Matthew Vincent talks to Hannah Kuchler, FT correspondent ...
18 Aug 20155min
Iraqi prime minister cracks down on corruption
Iraq’s prime minister has responded to a wave of street protests by launching a sweeping overhaul of government to tackle corruption and strengthen his own powers. Fiona Symon asks the FT’s Middle Ea...
17 Aug 20158min
Best of the FT podcasts: Google, China and migration
Henry Mance reviews Google's transformation from a profitable search engine to a tech conglomerate, China's decision to devalue its currency and the abuse of migrants by British employers, and talks t...
13 Aug 20159min
China's mixed message on the renminbi
Is China's renminbi devaluation a move towards liberalisation or a desperate bid to halt the country's economic slowdown? Ben Hall discusses the move with James Kynge and Gabriel Wildau. Hosted on Aca...
12 Aug 20158min
Google reinvents itself as a conglomerate for the tech age
Google has announced a broad restructuring which sees the US technology company renamed Alphabet and puts its internet search business into a subsidiary company. Matthew Vincent asks Richard Waters wh...
11 Aug 20154min
Strategic tensions in the South China Sea
China's island building in the South China Sea has led to friction with countries that share maritime borders around the sea and with the US which remains the dominant power in the region. James Kynge...
11 Aug 20156min
Japan's lifetime employment system
Students who fail in the first round of recruitment after leaving education in Japan are excluded from the country's lifetime employment system and condemned to a precarious life of temporary contract...
9 Aug 20154min
