The deployment of reserves and spiffy Western weapons has not yet yielded any big breakthroughs. Wet weather and a shortage ...

How Asian donors interact with poorer neighbours may shape the region as much as the defence and security contest between ...

Little of this bravado was on display on September 19th, when Instacart was welcomed on New York’s Nasdaq exchange. The ...

Macau is best known as the casino capital of Asia. But the former Portuguese colony, on China’s south coast, is hoping to ...

Such last-minute procurement of uranium is very rare, notes Per Jander of wmc, a trader. Utilities usually take deliveries ...

The phrase “factory Asia” describes one of history’s most impressive economic achievements. Over the past half-century Japan, ...

The magnet that drew Lula to São Paulo has lost strength. In the mid-1980s manufacturing accounted for a third of Brazil’s GDP; now it represents just 10%. The country’s surplus in manufacturing trade ...

South-East Asians have long suffered from Chinese expansionism in the South China Sea. China’s notorious “nine-dash line” is both symbol and tool of its extravagant claims: a U -shaped tongue of ...

C limate Week NYC got off to an early start in California. In the days running up to the launch of the annual jamboree in New York City, America’s most populous and economically powerful state seized ...

Florida, once a swampy frontier, is now America’s third-most populous state. It is also the state most often hit by hurricanes. By 2015, the Atlantic and Gulf coasts boasted more than $13trn of real ...

Bears occupy a special place in myth and mind. Youngsters are read stories about Paddington, Winnie-the-Pooh and the three bears and are presented with stuffed teddies. Perhaps also because bears can ...

Some states and ngo s already give prophylaxis to drug injectors and sex workers. If the six-month injection works, it should be routinely offered to teenage girls in high-risk countries (a fifth of ...