Into the shadows: The first of an FT series investigates how China’s precarious shadow banking system could inflict severe damage on the world economy

Into the shadows: The first of an FT series investigates how China’s precarious shadow banking system could inflict severe damage on the world economy

It has been eight weeks since the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls from their school dormitories in Chibok, in northern Nigeria’s Borno State. The Chibok girls – kidnapped simply because they wanted an education – have become a powerful symbol of a global struggle for equal rights and opportunities.

After China’s long spring of industrial unrest, the last dispute, with Walmart, is nearing resolution as officials urge workers to accept settlement

Human rights groups protest the arrest of Chinese civil rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, who was active in the campaign to abolish labour camps

Anti-corruption campaign has engulfed a vice-chairman of the nation’s top political advisory council who is being probed for ‘discipline violations’

Fewer and fewer would-be exiles are managing to take flight as Beijing tightens its grip on the region it has controlled since 1950