Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Media myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox.The Barclay family has pledged its remaining primary UK businesses as security to loans provided by IMI, the Abu Dhabi investment fund, as...
3/5 starsWinner of the Best Narrative Feature prize at the 2023 Golden Horse Awards – which is often considered the most prestigious accolade in the Chinese language film industry- Stonewalling is a stripped-down, non-judgemental tale of a 20-year-old woman forced...
But perhaps the best known of the bunch is Shōgun (1975), the fictionalised history of an expedition to Japan in 1600, feuding warlords, and the culturally and politically seismic role of an Englishman who somehow rises to the rank of...
King had her work cut out for her when she opened one of the first art galleries in Hong Kong. King-Yao, then a young girl at Maryknoll Sisters’ School – now called Marymount Primary School – recalls her mother commenting...
Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Media myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox.Ofcom is investigating whether an hour long Q&A with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak aired on GB News has breached UK broadcasting rules. The media...
4/5 starsSeven years after he won the best short film award at the Cannes Film Festival with A Gentle Night, Melbourne-educated Chinese filmmaker Qiu Yang has released his first feature film.It is substantial and stylish and revolves around a woman...
In December 2020, China Guardian auction house in Beijing sold his painting Black Rose of Memory or Dancing for 20.7 million yuan (just over HK$23 million, or US$3.16 million).Monk by the Sea, by Caspar David Friedrich. Photo: DeAgostini via Getty...
When Gerry Cardinale left Goldman Sachs in 2012 he underestimated just how hard it would be to launch a successful private equity business without the balance sheet of one of the world’s most prestigious investment banks. “At Goldman you pushed a...
Oppenheimer, a three-hour epic about the making of the atomic bomb during World War Two, was the big winner at the BAFTAs on Sunday, picking up seven prizes in total.One of the highest-grossing films of 2023, it won the night’s...
With the Japanese still around, George Giffen and Henry “Harry” Ching camped in the office, with George regretting he had not brought his bedding from Stanley (internment camp). They were not friends, but George thought highly of the Australian-born Eurasian...
