Four FT pieces were recognised at the 2023 Awards for Editorial Excellence by the Society of Publishers in Asia. Read the winning works 👇 (1/5) A shortage of heirs jeopardises Japan's family enterprises and threatens its economy. This engaging read by @Urbandirt, @SugiuraEri and @slodek earned an award for excellence in arts and culture reporting (2/5) ft.com/content/dc5c19…

New investigation: thirteen women who worked for Odey Asset Management or had dealings with its founder Crispin Odey told the FT that he abused or harassed them.

Eight alleged he sexually assaulted them.

Nine of them are telling their stories for the first time… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… The incidents, which occurred between 1998 and 2021, included masturbating on a female entrepreneur after a business meeting and forcing a friend’s hand on to his penis ft.com/content/e5d143… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

🧵'Dare to fight' — Xi Jinping used the phrase recently to sum up China's new foreign policy. We break down Beijing's bid to shape the world around its own interests 👇(1/7) on.ft.com/42T0VXA Xi has adopted a more assertive stance on foreign relations in the past decade, militarising artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea and becoming more aggressive towards Taiwan (2/7) on.ft.com/42T0VXA

🧵UBS executives have started trying to sell investors on the benefits of its $3.25bn shotgun marriage with Credit Suisse. Here's what the Swiss bank might look like after it fully takes over its defunct rival 👇 (1/6) on.ft.com/40lq9M8 🏦 After the takeover, UBS would become the second-largest private bank in the world after Morgan Stanley, with $3.4bn of wealth management assets (2/6) on.ft.com/40lq9M8

🧵 How is China's economy doing? We break down Beijing's first comprehensive overview of economic activity since it ended its zero-Covid rules in three charts 👇 (1/5) on.ft.com/3ZZiEdQ 🛍️ China's retail sales grew 3.5% year on year in the first two months of 2023, compared with declines in the previous three months (2/5) on.ft.com/3ZZiEdQ

Silicon Valley Bank imploded last week under the strain of depositors pulling out their money in droves.

How did the chaos unfold? Here is a timeline of what happened 🗓
ft.com/content/56a8df… Wednesday: Silicon Valley Bank, the US’s 16th-largest lender, said it lost about $1.8bn.

Customers got scared the bank would not be able to pay out their deposits and a bank run started ft.com/content/56a8df…

🧵In Japan, prices for chocolate, tempura bowls and sukiyaki sauce are all rising. Here are three more everyday items that have seen rapid price increases 👇(1/5) on.ft.com/3F9pZiN 🐔Karaage-kun chicken nuggets. The popular convenience store snack in Japan now costs 10% more in its first price bump since sales started in 1986 (2/5) on.ft.com/3F9pZiN

Anorexia nervosa is the deadliest psychiatric disorder.

Could the active ingredient found in magic mushrooms help fight it?

FT global pharma correspondent @hannahkuchler reports in the latest @ftmag cover story 🧵 ft.com/content/e8dbea… Medical knowledge of anorexia dates back to the 19th century, but no drug has ever been approved to treat it.

Therapy, antidepressants and nutritional programmes often fail. Only about one-third of sufferers fully recover ft.com/content/e8dbea…

When Rönesans Rezidans was built, it was billed as a beacon of aspiration. Now it has become a symbol of the rot in Turkey’s construction system. Why did it collapse? on.ft.com/3Zp7SNv Experts say the luxury development should have survived the 7.8 magnitude earthquake. It didn’t ig.ft.com/turkey-earthqu…

One year since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the FT looks back at how Vladimir Putin made his decision to start the war 🔍 on.ft.com/3EAs6fq After consulting only a tiny circle, Putin gave the go-ahead to invade Ukraine, which stunned Russian officials who didn’t think such an enormous offensive without wider consultation was possible ft.com/content/800025…

A year since Russia invaded, @ftmag dedicates an issue to Ukraine.

Read this thread to discover an epic of resistance and resilience 🧵 We asked the FT’s Ukraine correspondent @ChristopherJM to share his journey.

He wrote a 12-year story describing how he only wanted an adventure – and ended up in Ukraine’s most brutal war zone: ft.com/content/f19830…

The NHS is in its most perilous state since its foundation.

@camillacavendish – patient, author of government reviews, former head of the government’s Policy Unit and temporary adviser to the Department of Health during Covid – shares her personal take 👇 ft.com/content/52fc83… ‘Waiting lists are gargantuan,’ she writes. ‘Insufficient capacity in threadbare social care services is gumming up hospital beds as elderly people can’t be discharged. Staff who worked tirelessly through the pandemic are burnt out & running short of hope’ ft.com/content/52fc83…

In a single week last November, Sam Bankman-Fried, who is facing charges including money laundering, watched his $40bn company disintegrate into a pile of financial toxic waste.

What follows is the most detailed account yet of FTX’s final days 👇 ft.com/content/6e912f… This piece is based on extensive internal messages and emails, as well as an interview with Bankman-Friedman.

Many FTX employees also spoke to @ftmag on condition of anonymity, for fear of legal repercussions ft.com/content/6e912f…

Do you know more about global trends than chimpanzees? Let’s see how you do in our quiz…

In 1990, 58% of the world's population lived in low-income countries. What is the share today? Around the world, women do more unpaid care and domestic work than men. How much more?

Arming Ukraine has forced US defence companies to shift from peacetime production to war footing.

But the high-intensity, land-based fighting has exposed vulnerabilities within the US defence industry on.ft.com/3HJKTqI The US has supplied at least 38 multiple rocket launchers called Himars, and about 8,500 Javelins missiles to Ukraine.

As demand for munitions increases, defence companies are working around the clock to increase the production of these weapons ft.com/us-defence-ind…

'This is insane'. That's how a former IMF chief economist described the idea of a joint Brazil-Argentina currency.

What would both countries gain from it? What difficulties would they face? The FT took a deep dive into this topic👇ft.com/content/59cc26… Latin America’s left has long wanted to reduce the region’s historic dependence on the United States. A common currency is seen as a clever way to claim greater economic sovereignty while also pursuing a long-held dream of closer political union ft.com/content/59cc26…

In 1961 Patrice Lumumba, anti-colonial hero and Democratic Republic of Congo’s first democratically elected PM, was tortured and killed by political opponents. His body was dissolved in acid.

His only remains were two teeth – here is their 60-year story ft.com/content/eca1ba… In the Congolese spiritual tradition, a single part of a body — a nail, a clump of hair, a bone or tooth — could represent the whole person. Burying the tooth would allow the person’s soul to rest in peace ft.com/content/eca1ba…

Germany and the US have announced they will send western tanks to Ukraine. Why does Ukraine need them and how useful will they be on the battlefield? Here is what you need to know:
ft.com/content/d79c4d… The US will be sending 31 M1 Abrams tanks, while Germany said it would send 14 Leopard 2A6 tanks. How do the models compare? ft.com/content/f8ba6d…

Nadhim Zahawi, chair of the UK Conservative party, is at the heart of the biggest scandal to engulf the premiership of Rishi Sunak.

Here is what happened👇
ft.com/content/9a495d… At the weekend, a Zahawi ally admitted that he had paid a penalty to HM Revenue & Customs, as part of a total settlement of £5mn for unpaid taxes
ft.com/content/9a495d…

Can you predict how 2023 will play out better than expert forecasters? Take our quiz to find out 👇 on.ft.com/3j1iT8n ❓Will Russia and Ukraine sign or announce an agreement to end the current conflict in Ukraine before January 1 2024?

Tap here to find out what superforecasters thought: ft.com/content/d1172b…

Imagine this: 300 nuclear missiles are screaming towards the US – and you, as president, are in charge of the response.

What do you do? 🧵ft.com/content/06b223… This is likely to be a pre-emptive strike by Russia to destroy all land-based intercontinental ballistic missile silos in the country. A secret service agent bursts into the room and tells you to relocate immediately to the White House crisis centre ft.com/content/06b223…