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FINANCIAL TIMES - Week ahead
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Monday May 09 2011 

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May 9 – May 14
Monday
MAY 9

US and China stage talks
The two countries hold their third round of strategic and economic dialogue over two days in Washington, led by Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, and Wang Qishan, the Chinese vice-premier.

UN Security Council meets
The United Nations body meets in New York with briefings on the situation in Libya and a discussion of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Lee Myung-bak, president of South Korea, visits Germany, Denmark and France in a six-day trip for talks with leaders on trade, investment and renewable energy.

Stem 
cell congress
Industry leaders gather for the Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine congress in London (until May 11), focusing on commercialisation of treatments.

Russia remembers fallen
Financial markets close as the country commemorates the millions who died in the second world war with a parade in Moscow’s Red Square.

FT Reports
Global Brands (online only)

Tuesday
MAY 10

IMF monetary system
Volatility in the international monetary system will be discussed by speakers including Dominique Strauss-Kahn, International Monetary Fund managing 
director, and Christine Lagarde, the French economic minister, at the IMF-Swiss National Bank conference in Zurich.

Google focuses on apps
Google holds its I/O (Innovation in the Open) developer conference in San Francisco, on building the next generation of web and mobile apps.

Olympic tickets billed
Visa starts to charge for successful London 2012 ticket applications from today until June 10.

Endeavour’s final mission
Space shuttle Endeavour is due to blast off on its final mission from Florida to the International Space Station after scheduled April 29 
launch was delayed.

Wednesday
MAY 11

Cannes Film Festival opens
The 64th Festival de Cannes opens in the South of France with new films by directors including Woody Allen, Pedro Almodóvar, Terrence Malick and Lars Von Trier (until May 22).

Greece public sector strike
Bodies including the largest public and private sector trade unions, Adedy and GSEE, stage another general strike against austerity measures agreed as part of the multibillion-euro European Union-IMF bail-out.

AT&T and T-Mobile merger
A US Senate judiciary committee in Washington 
debates proposed merger of AT&T with T-Mobile.

Information gathering
The Information Security Expo begins in Tokyo alongside other expos including cloud computing, data storage and smartphones (until Friday 13).

Europe’s bankers meet
Senior bank executives look at how retail banks can drive revenue through customer solutions, operational efficiency and risk management at the European Banking Forum in Brussels (until May 13).

Thursday
May 12

EU discusses border issues
The Justice and Home Affairs council meets in Brussels to discuss the impact of the migrant crisis in Greece and southern Europe on the EU’s open borders policy.

Weiwei sculpture on show
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s outdoor sculpture “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads“ opens in London at Somerset House as part of a world tour. The artist was arrested at Beijing airport on April 3 and has not been seen since.

Warhol’s portrait auctioned
Andy Warhol’s portrait “Liz #5” of Elizabeth Taylor, the actress who died in March, is auctioned at Contemporary Art Part I in New York for an estimated price of $20-30m.

Europe’s space age
The EU’s space programme will be discussed at a European Commission conference in Budapest under the FP7 research framework, focusing on exploration, monitoring climate and future research (until May 13).

FT Reports
Islamic Finance 2011
State of the UK Economy 3 (UK only)

Friday
MAY 13

Arab ministers gather
The Arab League’s foreign ministers meet to discuss unrest in Syria, Yemen and Libya and to set a new date for the postponed March Baghdad summit.

Report on human rights
Amnesty International launches its 2011 report on the state of human rights in 157 countries which sets its agenda for tackling human rights abuses in the year ahead.

Strike in South Africa
Nationwide strike called by the South African Municipal Workers Union ahead of May 18 local elections, protesting against privatisation, limitations on worker rights and the dissolution of provincial governments.

Best of French food
The Salon Saveurs des Plaisirs Gourmands, a four-day event dedicated to regional specialities and luxury produce both traditional and modern, starts in Paris.

Saturday
MAY 14

Haiti inaugurates president
Michel Martelly takes over Haiti’s presidency from René Préval after winning a March 20 election run-off.

FA Cup final kicks off
Manchester City face Stoke City at Wembley in London for the 130th final of world football’s oldest domestic cup competition.

Barcelona geared up
Barcelona International Motor Show begins, with events continuing until May 22, when the Spanish Grand Prix takes place at the city’s Circuit de Catalunya.

Sunday
MAY 15

Syria deadline expires
A deadline set by the interior ministry in Damascus for protesters who have committed ‘unlawful acts’ to give themselves up is scheduled to expire.

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