Lunch with the FT: Rajendra Pachauri
Financial Times March 30, 2007 As I arrive at Rajendra Pachauri’s office in a leafy part of New Delhi, my host also sweeps in, mid-conversation with another visitor. This overlap […]
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Get a taste of the wine business
Financial Times March 31, 2006 The fecund land of Napa Valley, northern California’s wine country, is waking to springtime with help from 400 hungry sheep. Trucked in from Colorado, the […]
Stakes high as Las Vegas welcomes in the new year
Financial Times February 9, 2005 US gaming groups with an eye on the East prepare for the annual Chinese pilgrimage A 10-foot tall animatronic rooster sits inside the glass-domed conservatory […]
‘We make it up as we go along’
Financial Times Profile of Craigs List founder January 19, 2005 With balding pate and slight paunch, Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, the US online listings company, is a self-described nerd. […]
Passion Flower
Boston Globe Magazine October 17, 2004 Years after meeting in Hong Kong, the author finds that Shiu-Ying Hu, one of the first Chinese women to earn a PhD from Harvard […]
Chapter 11 is nowhere near the end of the Trump story
Financial Times Interview with Donald Trump August 16, 2004 Seated in his New York office overlooking Central Park days after last week’s announcement, Donald Trump wore a black suit and […]
Bilingual US schoolchildren spread the word
Financial Times May 18 2004 The footsoldiers of globalisation are getting younger as American children take up Chinese, reports Amy Yee. It’s a typical afternoon for thexiao pengyou – or […]
First ‘walkies!’ Now talkies
Financial Times February 28, 2004 Amy Yee tests the Japanese-made Bow-Lingual, whose makers claim to use voiceprint technology to translate dogs’ woofs into human language. Freddie may be chatty but […]
Film’s image fades, eclipsed by digital
January 26 2004 Financial Times Kodak has signalled the beginning of the end for 35mm photography as a product for the mass market. Amy Yee asks what will be left […]
The green shoots of recovery
Financial Times September 27, 2003 It is autumn in New York but the future looks green. At least itdoes if you’re peering up at the 27 storeys of the Solaire, […]
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