Chart: The Economist When China at last bit the bullet and published its own timetable, it did so with little fanfare. State-run television mentioned the move below several other headlines on its ...
Both give the same answers, all of which feature in articles in this week’s edition of The Economist. Email all four answers, along with your home city and country, by 9am BST on Monday to ...
Chart: The Economist Adapting will require not only ... Dry countries (such as China and the Gulf states) are buying up farmland in Africa and the Americas to secure future supplies of food.
National day in Somaliland means joy, pomp and machines of war. On May 18th the president and assembled dignitaries watched, from the grandstand, the annual parade in the capital, Hargeisa, as ...
And what exactly are your houseplants doing for your microbiome? Alok Jha, The Economist’s science and technology editor, speaks to Kathy Willis, professor of biodiversity at the University of ...
SHOULD THE world admire or fear China’s model of governance? Since this column was launched in September 2018 that question has become more urgent, as Xi Jinping declares it time for China to ...
On a recent visit to his hometown of Laixi, in eastern China, Guo Ping received a shock ... raise money—no matter how awkward. Chart: The Economist Bus operators in small cities are suspending ...
While China’s athletes won glory in Paris at this year’s Olympics and Paralympics, there was widespread agreement on Chinese social media that the country’s reporters did not. Bloggers and ...
At her education center in Jinan, a city in eastern China, she now offers singing, dancing, music and art classes for seniors. She organizes activities and educational trips for her students.
Gasoline exports from China fell to the lowest since April due to a plunge in margins and quota that is fast running out. Cargoes of the fuel fell to 770,000 tons last month, according to customs ...
A new documentary follows the Chapecoense, a Brazilian soccer team, after 19 of its players were killed in a plane crash. By Glenn Kenny Jakson Follmann, who lost his right leg in a crash that ...
Harris served as DA from 2004 to 2010, before moving on to attorney general of California. Harris’ abandoning law enforcers stung all the more because she had come into office pledging to get ...