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    Louise Lucas

    Asia technology correspondent

    Louise Lucas covers tech in Asia for the FT. She was previously Asia news editor and has done several roles at the FT, including writing for the Lex column and covering consumer industries.

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    • Friday, 9 September, 2022
      ReviewFiction
      Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata — spare and dreamlike Tokyo stories

      Everyday scenes are rendered strange and unsettling in this quietly subversive collection of short fiction

      A woman has lunch in front of a window in Tokyo
    • Thursday, 4 August, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      The Lazarus Heist — a rollicking ride through North Korean cyber crime

      Geoff White’s riveting investigation reveals a world of shadowy criminals, sophisticated hacks and bungled schemes

    • Wednesday, 17 November, 2021
      Lex
      Lex Letter from London: the City’s rivalry with Amsterdam deepens Premium content

      Trading and clearing may be flowing across the water but investors prefer companies to stay in Britain

      Homes on the bank of the river Amstel in Amsterdam
    • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
      LexCOP26
      Lex Letter from London: all aboard the bus for COP26 Premium content

      Centuries on from the industrial revolution, polluting activities form the UK’s corporate backbone even today

      People take part in a climate march in Brussels earlier this month
    • Friday, 10 September, 2021
      Lex
      Best of Lex: bids, bauxite and bitcoin Premium content

      EasyJet | PayPal | Pimco | 888 | Coinbase

      EasyJet aircraft on an airport tarmac
    • Friday, 27 August, 2021
      Lex
      Best of Lex: empty shelves and fantasy M&A Premium content

      Labour shortages | Maersk | GM | Afghanistan minerals | Sainsbury’s | Virgin Orbit

      Empty shelves at a London supermarket
    • Thursday, 8 July, 2021
      Inside BusinessUK manufacturing
      Welsh chip deal will show how UK’s view on foreign owners is evolving

      Sale of small factory that makes silicon wafers has been called in for review, despite few signs of national security risk

      Compound semiconductor production at the Newport Wafer Fab factory
    • Friday, 2 July, 2021
      Lex
      Best of Lex: Up, up and away — $76 oil, Facebook at $1tn and soaring Asia banker pay Premium content

      UK roaming charges | Amazon | Tesla | US banks

      A woman speaks on her phone as she walks along the beach in Normandy, France
    • Wednesday, 9 June, 2021
      Lex
      Lex Letter from London: Arm wrestling Premium content

      A sale to Nvidia would most likely result in the British chip designer dancing to the US tech company’s tune

      An Arm chip
    • Thursday, 20 May, 2021
      Rail
      UK’s new model railway is likely to serve the public poorly

      Latest revamp of network offers simpler system but contains questionable forecasts

    • Friday, 7 May, 2021
      Lex
      Best of Lex: a trippy-dippy week Premium content

      Mental health/psychedelic drugs, Darktrace, Unicaja/Liberbank, UniCredit, BlackRock and more

      Magic mushrooms
    • Friday, 26 March, 2021
      Lex
      Best of Lex: staunching the flows of trade, money and chat Premium content

      Suez Canal, Intel, Chinese delistings, Facebook, Leonardo/DRS and more

      The Ever Given container ship stranded in the Suez Canal, Egypt
    • Friday, 12 March, 2021
      Lex
      Best of Lex: stock market deliveries and funky assets Premium content

      Coupang, Deliveroo, Greensill/Apollo, lithium/electric vehicles, CBDCs and more

      A Coupang delivery truck leaves a distribution centre in Seoul, South Korea
    • Monday, 8 March, 2021
      UK immigration
      Life in the UK is not easy for former Hong Kong residents

      Those fleeing China’s crackdown face bureaucratic hurdles and high property prices

    • Friday, 5 February, 2021
      Lex
      Best of Lex: politicians and professional services back in the game Premium content

      Robey Warshaw/George Osborne, Kirkland & Ellis, McKinsey, Silver/WallStreetBets, Robinhood, Amazon/Jeff Bezos

    • Thursday, 28 January, 2021
      LombardDiageo PLC
      Runaway tequila sales make Diageo well worth a shot

      Lockdown cocktails help shake up world’s biggest distiller; rejigged US split plan leaves Prudential looking wounded

    • Friday, 15 January, 2021
      Lex
      Best of Lex: medical and political jabs Premium content

      Hong Kong delistings, WhatsApp, US tech/Trump, Sanofi, Moonpig, Dr Martens, Roblox

    • Monday, 11 January, 2021
      LombardLombard
      Signature Aviation’s bid battle cruises towards a smooth landing

      Bidders circle private jet services group; Ladbrokes owner Entain bruised not broken as another CEO exits

    • Monday, 21 December, 2020
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Why Japan’s more female future may not be more equal

      A tour of the country and its ‘womenomics’ concludes with a prescription for change

    • Friday, 4 December, 2020
      ReviewFiction
      There’s No Such Thing As An Easy Job — a disquisition on the value of work

      Kikuko Tsumura’s novel about workplace nihilism is both a smart and timely read

    • Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
      Lex
      Lex Letter from London: Et in Arcadia, his ego Premium content

      UK high street shops were a dying breed long before coronavirus came on the scene

    • Friday, 6 November, 2020
      Lex
      Best of Lex: the week that wasn’t Premium content

      J Sainsbury/Argos, US assets/election, Ant IPO/CCP, US health insurers, US tech stocks, PayPal

    • Thursday, 29 October, 2020
      LombardShell PLC
      Lifting Shell’s dividend does not change long-term game

      Oil group hopes to win back investors | Weighing up Horta-Osório’s legacy at Lloyds

    • Friday, 16 October, 2020
      Lex
      Best of Lex: banks, shops and going pop Premium content

      Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, AO World, Just Eat, Big Hit Entertainment and more

      South Korean pop group BTS performing last year. The boy band’s management agency Big Hit Entertainment made its stock market debut this week
    • Friday, 18 September, 2020
      Lex
      Best of Lex: politics, short-sellers and other spots of bother Premium content

      TikTok/Oracle, The Hut Group, Lloyd’s of London, Nvidia/China, Nikola/Hindenburg

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