I’ve just finished writing a book that took me into the world of Russian-British double agents during the cold war. I watched these people hop between countries, haunt British prime ministers and (if they were Russians) get killed. (Briti...
Nikolay Storonsky prides himself on straight answers. “Ninety-five per cent of founders, they will bullshit you. I’m not going to do it,” says the co-founder and chief executive of Revolut, which offers app-based financial services. The...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, battling scandal at home and facing collateral damage from a possible US-China trade war, has pledged to push ahead with his divisive plan to revise the “peace clause” of Japan’s constitution. 在竭力应对国内的...
The Philippines, faced with an approaching energy crunch and a maritime dispute with China overshadowing one of its biggest offshore gasfields, has outlined plans to invite oil and gas companies to develop 14 petroleum blocks elsewhere in...
Over the past three decades, China’s economy achieved one growth miracle by means of another: the expansion of its cities through the migration of hundreds of millions of rural workers. 过去三十年,中国数亿农村劳动力进城带来的奇迹般的城市...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is considered by Chinese entrepreneurs as the most promising area in the innovation economy in 2018, says a Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) report released last Tuesday. 硅谷银行上周二发布的一份报告称,人工智能被中国...
The US Federal Reserve raised the benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points and signaled two more rate hikes in 2018, citing strengthened economic outlook in recent months. 因近几个月经济前景“有所改善”,美国联邦储蓄委员会近日宣布将其基...
A recent fall of really strange orange-tinted snow is making headlines after it swept across a swathe of Eastern Europe. Images on social media from Russia show mountainous landscapes tinged auburn, where usually they are pristine white....
Chinese conglomerate HNA’s efforts to strengthen its finances have been dealt a blow with the collapse of plans to raise up to SFr1.3bn ($1.37bn) by listing Gategroup, the Swiss airline catering business it acquired less than two years ag...
The regulatory pressure on Facebook rose another notch yesterday as the US Federal Trade Commission confirmed it had opened an investigation into the company’s privacy practices after the scandal in which the data of 50m users was misused...