https://www.scmp.com/rss/519126/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Joseph Sipalan Joseph Sipalan For decades, London’s property market has offered sanctuary to fortunes of murky origins, its red-brick mansions and gleaming office blocks standing as monuments to global impunity. Now, as anti-corruption watchdogs from Malaysia to Bangladesh demand justice, Britain is once again forced to reckon with its role as the world’s premier laundromat for kleptocrats. Malaysia’s investigators revealed earlier this month that they were investigating the alleged London-based assets of former prime... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3326142/malaysia-bangladesh-asias-dirty-money-finds-home-uk-property?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3326142/malaysia-bangladesh-asias-dirty-money-finds-home-uk-property?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:12 +0000 Submerging bottles of wine in the ocean to age them may seem unusualbut, given that it has proved to be an effective technique, one might wonder why it isn’t used more often. Away from the shore and shallow water, the ocean is quite temperate, even in tropical seas. Shipwrecks – most famously the Titanic – are often found to contain bottles of wine that sur­vived the sinking. In 2010, a wreck discovered at a depth of 50 metres in the Baltic Sea, just off the Åland Islands, in Finland, yielded... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/food-drink/article/2160996/underwater-winery-champagne-house-hits-spot-ocean?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/food-drink/article/2160996/underwater-winery-champagne-house-hits-spot-ocean?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 26 Aug 2018 04:45:00 +0000 I stand on the gently rocking bow and measure the distance with my eye, then jump onto a granite boulder covered in orange lichen and scramble up the rocks, using scrawny fir trees to pull myself into the forest. Bright green moss swallows my foot­steps and releases a musty, earthy scent I’ve never before smelled on a sailing trip. But then, I’ve never before sailed in Åland. Cruising these islands, sprinkled across the Archipelago Sea, between Finland and Sweden, is as much about exploring the... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/travel/article/2040320/sailing-away-it-all-baltics-archipelago-sea?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/travel/article/2040320/sailing-away-it-all-baltics-archipelago-sea?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 28 Oct 2016 03:30:45 +0000