Intent on making a flawless impression as the first host of the world’s fair in…
China Says 85% of Citizens Will Use Mandarin by 2025
China is launching an aggressive campaign to promote Mandarin, saying 85% of its citizens will use the national language by 2025. The move appears to put threatened Chinese regional dialects such as…
Carbon Labelling Can Potentially Encourage Eco-Friendly E-Commerce
Having the world at our fingertips was one of the promises of the age of information. With electronic commerce (e-commerce) giving us the power to buy almost anything from anywhere with a…
Ethiopia PM Says He Will Lead Army ‘From the Battlefront’
Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister says he will lead his country’s army “from the battlefront” beginning Tuesday, a dramatic new step in a devastating yearlong war. “This is a time when leading…
Rights Groups Demand ICC Probe into Libya Migrant Abuses
Human rights activists sent a dossier of evidence to the International Criminal Court on Tuesday demanding an investigation into abuses of migrants in Libya that they argue “may amount to crimes against…
World Cup Host Qatar Used Ex-CIA Officer to Spy on FIFA
The tiny Arab nation of Qatar has for years employed a former CIA officer to help spy on soccer officials as part of a no-expense-spared effort to win and hold on to…
Blinken Eyes African Crises, Says Continent Must Reform
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday called on African nations to heed warnings posed by crises in Ethiopia and Sudan, take seriously popular demands for better governance and enact reforms. In a speech…
Where’s My Package? Expert Finds Kinks in Global Supply Chain
Every consumer who has seen empty grocery store shelves or waited extra weeks for an online purchase over the past 18 months is aware of how the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the supply…
Stimulus Designed to Help Restaurant Workers Led to More Covid Cases
A new paper in The Economic Journal indicates that a large-scale government subsidy aimed at encouraging people to eat out in restaurants in the wake of the first 2020 COVID-19 wave in the United…
