The European Union threatens the mainstay of Cambodia’s economy
FROM STITCHING sequins to printing logos, making clothes can be a delicate, fiddly process. Even so, Cambodian factories swiftly fulfil huge orders pl…
New Caledonia holds a referendum on independence
MICHEL ROCARD, a former French prime minister, once described the peace deal he brokered in New Caledonia in 1988 as a “bet on intelligence”. A refere…
Sri Lanka’s president installs his arch-enemy as prime minister
FIRST TO GO was the navy honour guard, in crisp uniforms with brass buttons. Then the maintenance staff departed, followed by the cooks and gardeners and cleaners. The next day no drivers showed up, marooning a fleet of fancy cars in the compound’s g…
China’s public worries pointlessly about GM food
AMID AN ESCALATING trade war with America, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, has tried to reassure a nervous public by insisting that his country can go it …
China waters down its ban on the use of tiger and rhino parts
print-edition iconPrint edition | ChinaNov 1st 2018 | HONG KONG“IT’S GOOD news for my patients,” says Zhu Meng, a practitioner of traditional Chinese …
Think of China as a giant sub-prime lender in Latin America
SINCE ITS emperors first wrangled with distant barbarians, China has practised unsentimental diplomacy. Not much has changed, to go by its dealings with Brazil and Venezuela as the two Latin American countries struggle with political crises.Get our d…
India erects the biggest statue in the world—and it’s not Gandhi
At 182 metres, twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, it is the world’s biggest statue. Inaugurated on October 31st, it depicts Sardar Vallabhbhai…
A fashionable aesthetic confounds Chinese parents—and officials
print-edition iconPrint edition | ChinaOct 25th 2018 | BEIJINGNEW F4 ARE actors-turned-musicians with pebble-smooth chins and artful coifs (the “F” is…
150 Million USD in funding for China tech , from Investcorp
Investcorp, a Bahrain-listed asset manager, will invest in a Chinese state-backed fund with holdings in some of the mainland’s fastest-growing technology companies, joining a raft of global investors seeking to capitalise on the prospects for the sector in Asia.
The investment group has a…
Chinese-Israeli technological investment growth
While relations between China and the US continue to go downhill, relations between Israel and China are headed in the opposite direction. Just last week, China's Vice President Wang Qishan was the guest of honor at the opening ceremony of the Israel Innovation Center, together with Alibaba founder …