India's foreign minister this week threatened to expel all of Amazon's foreign employees over a doormat imprinted with the Indian flag that was on sale on its website. Josh Noble asks the FT's Kiran Stacey why the item caused such offense.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A rush of high profile winter signings has prompted the authorities in China to intervene to curb spending on foreign players. Josh Noble asks the FT's Tom Hancock and Murad Ahmed what's behind the spending splurge and what impact it is likely to have on China's World Cup hopes.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Egypt recently clinched a deal with the IMF for a $12bn loan over three years. But it has had to implement painful measures which include floating the currency and reducing subsidies. The FT's Heba Saleh talks to Sahar Nasr, Egypt's minister of international co-operation, about the government's latest efforts to restore the economy.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Zuckerberg plans to tour the US following Donald Trump’s election as president. The Facebook founder said, “we are at a turning point in history” and spoke of the need to “find a way to change the game so that it works for everyone”. Chris Nuttall discusses the reasons for the tour and how other tech leaders are reacting to the Trump victory with Hannah Kuchler, the FT's San Francisco correspondent.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rohingya Muslim refugees have been leaving Burma for decades but in the last few months, the numbers have swelled amid allegations of a campaign of brutal violence by the Burmese military. The FT's Kiran Stacey talks to refugees in Cox's Bazar on the Bangladesh-Burma border.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Denis Koslowski former head of Tyco, tells Andrew Hill, FT management editor, how he reinvented himself in the wake of public disgrace and imprisonment.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Marcela Sapone, chief exec and co-founder of Hello Alfred, tells Andrew Hill, FT management editor, how she coped with the pressure of maintaining momentum after a successful launch.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Former chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland Stephen Hester tells Andrew Hill, FT management editor, how he found himself in the eye of the storm during the financial crisis.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pascal Soriot, chief executive of the Anglo-Swedish drugs company AstraZeneca, tells Andrew Hill about his 2014 battle to head off a hostile takeover bid from Pfizer of the US.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It was a familiar story: a small town, a big factory, overseas owners and job cuts, another tear in the social fabric of an English community. Except that in Kendal, on the edge of the Lake District, the ending has been rewritten. Andrew Bounds, the FT's north of England correspondent, tells the story.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.