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    Antoni Slodkowski

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    Antoni Slodkowski writes about the biggest business stories in the world's third largest economy as the FT's Tokyo correspondent. Before he joined the FT, Antoni worked as the Japan deputy bureau chief and the Myanmar bureau chief for Reuters. In Myanmar, he led a team of reporters that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for "expertly exposing...the systematic expulsion and murder of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar."
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    • Wednesday, 27 July, 2022
      Behind the Money podcast17 min listen
      Is Sri Lanka’s economic crisis a canary in the coal mine?

      The south Asian nation is facing dire fuel and food shortages amid ongoing economic and political crises. What does that mean for the rest of the world?

    • Wednesday, 27 July, 2022
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      The white elephants stoking fury over Sri Lanka’s debt crisis

      The Rajapaksas lavished spending on vanity projects that are rotting away in the heat

    • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
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      Sri Lanka police clear protest site stoking fear of more unrest

      IMF talks at risk as security forces raid Presidential Secretariat hours after Wickremesinghe sworn in as president

    • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
      Special ReportJapan and Sustainability
      Pandemic piques employee interest in Japan’s social enterprises

      Desire to make an impact is prompting workers to reconsider career plans

    • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
      Special ReportJapan and Sustainability
      Ukraine war spurs LNG demand in Japan despite fossil fuel activism

      Climate groups target Japanese company AGMs over finance for liquefied natural gas

    • Wednesday, 20 July, 2022
      Sri Lanka
      Sri Lanka MPs risk renewed unrest by electing unpopular PM as president

      Ranil Wickremesinghe must regain public trust while pushing through reforms needed for IMF bailout

    • Wednesday, 20 July, 2022
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      No food, no fuel and no jobs: the economic catastrophe engulfing Sri Lanka

      Workers at Colombo’s once thriving Pettah bazaar say their families have been forced to skip meals

    • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
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      Sri Lanka opposition forces unite ahead of presidential vote

      Tensions high as parliament dominated by ousted Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s party set to pick new leader

    • Monday, 18 July, 2022
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      Sri Lanka picks a new leader

      Nearly half a trillion dollars were wiped from once high-flying financial technology companies

    • Monday, 18 July, 2022
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      Industry body charged with overseeing exchanges is in the grip of a crisis

    • Sunday, 17 July, 2022
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    • Monday, 11 July, 2022
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    • Monday, 11 July, 2022
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      Voters hand Tokyo a historic opportunity to revise pacifist constitution

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      Washington’s request aimed at further financially isolating Moscow

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    • Sunday, 26 June, 2022
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      The chief of Japan’s leading semiconductor materials maker explains how he restructured the company through honest dialogue with staff and stakeholders

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      Industry body says 35,000 engineers needed within 10 years to revive country’s semiconductor sector

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