FirstFT: China set to hit EV sales target a decade early
What’s the scale? Domestic EV sales in China — including pure battery and plug-in hybrids — are set to grow about 20 per cent year on year to more than 12mn cars in 2025, according to estimates from ...
Transcript: What to expect in 2025
Gideon Rachman talks to Alexander Gabuev of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, Jeremy Shapiro of the European Council on Foreign Relations and Karin von Hippel of the Royal United Services Institute ...
Boom in US retail real estate defies prediction of ecommerce apocalypse
The clamour for stores comes despite rapid growth in ecommerce, which enables consumers to shop from home. US ecommerce sales ...
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies film review — hard-edged but warm-hearted Thai comedy
Grandma is Mengju (Usha Seamkhum), first seen sizing up potential cemeteries. (Seamkhum is superbly flinty in what is, at 78, ...
Russians turn to 'personal shoppers' to smuggle luxury bags
Wealthy Russians are routinely sidestepping trade curbs on luxury brands, using a cottage industry of personal shoppers, ...
The South African gold mines taken over by criminal gangs
The man from Mozambique, who was unable to give his name as he collapsed on the ground, was the latest survivor of a ...
Savage Theories — love and violence in post-revolutionary Argentina
Pola Oloixarac’s debut novel is an ambitious, if flawed, attempt to process political brutality through philosophy ...
Young Canadians ditch ice hockey for football and basketball
A Royal Bank of Canada survey earlier this year found that on average, young players’ parents spend C$4,478 on hockey each ...
The Order film review — dark tale of white supremacists in 1980s America
Nicholas Hoult is suitably icy as a truth-based neo-Nazi leader but Jude Law is miscast as the broken FBI man pursuing him ...
The one book to read to understand your industry
These offbeat classics, picked by people working in key sectors, can act as spiritual guidebooks, revealing the subtler ...
Emily Nussbaum’s Cue the Sun! — reality TV bites
An exploration of the history and legacy of this manipulative genre manages to navigate the silly and the serious ...
Throwbacks, comebacks and reunions — pop to look forward to in 2025
The star wattage emanating from pop’s golden couple does not light up new music — although that may be about to change. A$AP Rocky has a much-delayed album on the way, Don’t Be Dumb, due to land at an ...