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    • Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
      News in-depthBangladesh
      Bangladesh’s finance minister warns on Belt and Road loans from China

      Beijing’s poor lending decisions risk pushing developing nations into debt distress, says Kamal

    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
      News in-depthKenya
      China’s role at the heart of Kenya’s election campaign

      Deputy president threatens deportations of Chinese nationals while veteran rival promises renegotiation of Beijing loans

    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
      UK infrastructure
      Housing development in England under threat as electricity capacity nears limits

      Data centres, which can use as much energy as thousands of homes, put London and the south-east at particular risk

    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
      Virgin Media O2
      Virgin Media O2 secures £4.5bn investment to expand fibre footprint

      Owners Telefónica and Liberty Global joined by investment firm InfraVia Capital Partners

    • Thursday, 28 July, 2022
      UK labour disputes
      Strike action threatens to shut down UK’s biggest container port

      Felixstowe dispute adds to pressure on transport network amid rail walkouts and burden on Channel crossings

    • Thursday, 28 July, 2022
      Alice Ross
      Extreme heat is a wake-up call for investors on infrastructure

      Time to target companies adapting to climate change

    • Wednesday, 27 July, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      China’s emerging Belt and Road debt crisis

      The architecture of global development finance needs an overhaul

    • Monday, 25 July, 2022
      Vodafone Group PLC
      Vodafone boosted by growth in UK business

      Europe’s largest broadband provider says it is on track to deliver full-year guidance

    • Sunday, 24 July, 2022
      Belt and Road Initiative
      China’s Belt and Road spending in Russia drops to zero

      Beijing shifts investment focus to Saudi Arabia but continues to buy Russian oil and gas

    • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
      The Big Read
      China reckons with its first overseas debt crisis

      The Belt and Road Initiative has seen a surge in loans going bad, prompting Beijing to issue countries with emergency credit

    • Wednesday, 20 July, 2022
      UK infrastructure
      Resilience of UK rail network faces review after heatwave disruption

      Ministers and experts point to need for infrastructure to adapt as impact of heat and wildfires assessed

    • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      Ministers wasted £190mn ‘repeatedly’ altering rail upgrade plans

      Watchdog finds constant changes have delayed Transpennine project by more than a decade

    • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
      Climate change
      UK public services under strain as temperature tops 40C

      Record reading in Lincolnshire amid fires in London’s outskirts and warnings of transport system buckling

    • Sunday, 17 July, 2022
      European Investment Bank
      European Investment Bank pledges to cut spending on roads

      Comments from vice-president Kris Peeters come amid criticism from environmental campaigners

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      Mergers & Acquisitions
      Virgin Media O2 submits bid for UK rival TalkTalk

      Approach values privately held group at £3bn and could create UK’s second-largest broadband company

    • Tuesday, 12 July, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Insurance rules should prioritise policyholders over politics

      The UK should unlock infrastructure investment but with caution

    • Monday, 4 July, 2022
      ReviewEconomics books
      British Rail: A New History — a timely reminder of how to run a railway

      Christian Wolmar’s examination of nationalisation reveals that in the 1980s and 1990s the system was making progress

    • Friday, 24 June, 2022
      UK Broadband
      UK ‘altnets’ risk digging themselves into a hole

      Overbuilding poses threat to business model of fibre broadband groups challenging the big incumbents

    • Friday, 24 June, 2022
      Christian Wolmar
      No one is in charge of Britain’s chaotic railways

      Since the privatisation and break-up of British Rail, train transport has proved itself ill-suited to conventional capitalism

    • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
      UK Infrastructure Bank
      UK Infrastructure Bank pledges to make direct equity investments

      Chief executive defends using third-party managers while group builds its own expertise

    • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
      UK labour disputes
      UK rail bosses push for job cuts as strike talks resume

      Echoes of lockdown as employees work from home but business leaders warn of painful economic impact

    • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
      OutlookJennifer Williams
      Britain’s northern rail project is running out of steam

      Promised investments in high-speed links to Manchester and Leeds are being eroded in favour of spending in the south

    • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
      Anglian Water Group Ltd
      Anglian Water pays £92mn dividend to owners as customer bills rise

      Supplier says payout is ‘below the level expected by our regulator’

    • Sunday, 19 June, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      Broadband market inequalities test Westminster’s hopes of levelling up

      Disparity in access to fast internet sets back rural and poorer areas, data analysis shows

    • Sunday, 19 June, 2022
      Belt and Road Initiative
      Chinese state-owned company accused of endangering rare orang-utans

      SDIC has marketed its environmental credentials but has invested in controversial hydropower plant

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