Tokyo Metro gets retail investors on board Japan’s biggest IPO since 2018
The long-awaited listing, which was heavily oversubscribed and has raised ¥348bn ($2.3bn), is Japan’s first privatisation of a government-owned company since the IPOs of JR Kyushu, which raised $4bn ...
Roubles and rollercoasters: how Moscow won over Moldova’s south
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Bank of England chief economist criticises statistics agency over poor jobs data
Huw Pill told ONS in private letter that efforts to fix key labour market survey ‘have not yet led to improvement’ ...
Jodie Whittaker stars in an ambitious but muddled The Duchess (of Malfi) — review
Zinnie Harris’s drama shifts John Webster’s Jacobean play to the Sixties, with mixed results, at London’s Trafalgar Theatre ...
Mubadala Capital sees chance to buy up large private equity stakes
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Carbon credit standards body defends policies after former director charged with fraud
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Floods recovery ‘test case’ leaves millions still in tents
Debt-burdened Pakistan becomes an example of how not to tackle the massive rebuild from extreme climate events ...
Tim Burton should have stayed in the suburbs — interiors is where his power lies
A new exhibition highlights the ‘Beetlejuice’ director’s preoccupation with architecture, and his understanding of houses as ...
Patriot — Alexei Navalny’s fight for a ‘beautiful Russia’, in his own words
Patriot is defined by what Navalny, an anti-corruption activist whose brio, wit and online savvy made him President Vladimir ...
PureGym plans US expansion as it pursues Blink Fitness deal
PureGym plans to make the US its second-biggest market, with more than 300 sites by 2030, as it pursues a $105mn deal to buy ...
Under a quarter of UK workers want alcohol at social events, study finds
Only one in four UK employees want alcohol at workplace social events while little more than half attend after-hours events ...
Three big economic ideas that explain the US election
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