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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “I have a pet peeve about Chinese festivals,” says Amy Poon, gathering coriander and spinach into bunches in her west London kitchen. “I get asked for stuff at Chinese New Year and I’m always laughing. I’m like, ‘You know that the Chinese do eat the other 11 months and two weeks of the year?’ A lot of the Chinese festivals are fetishised. It’s all been a bit Crazy Rich Asian-ised; I…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The six-storey INS Land complex in Shanghai is usually thronged with partygoers swarming nightclubs dedicated to hip hop, disco and metal. But this month it made a very different pitch to the city’s young: as a venue for wedding ceremonies. When the Financial Times visited the site, construction workers were setting up a lavish reception room bedecked with piles of fake grass where couples will register their marriage and celebrate…

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “We used to get people saying, ‘you’re making in India: shouldn’t you be cheaper?’ — with no regard to what we were producing or the wages we’re paying,” says Deepak Srinath, co-founder of Bengaluru-based Phantom Hands, which retails in 20 countries. “That went away once people started seeing the quality of our products.” With a construction boom and a young population well versed in international influences — and with increasing…

This article is an on-site version of our Inside Politics newsletter. Subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday. If you’re not a subscriber, you can still receive the newsletter free for 30 days Good morning. Stephen here. The United Kingdom has the worst of both worlds when it comes to saving: much of our saving is in cash, compared to higher-return ways of saving, and we have weaker pension pots. Georgina has written about the UK’s investing culture and how it compares with Japan’s in…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Japan has approved the restart of the world’s largest nuclear power plant more than a decade after its closure following the Fukushima disaster, as the country returns to atomic energy to address rising power costs. The governor of Niigata prefecture approved the reactivation of one reactor unit on Friday, clearing the last major hurdle to restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant. Japan retreated from nuclear power after a tsunami cut off cooling…