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8 years agoAnalysis+22 22 0America’s painfully outdated approach to China
China has evolved over the past two decades. Why haven’t US policy ideas changed with it?
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8 years ago+31 31 0Japan to allow military role overseas in historic move
Japan's parliament votes to allow the military to fight overseas for the first time since the end of World War Two.
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8 years ago+10 11 1 x 1The Zipf Mystery
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8 years ago+25 25 0ALGORITHM: The Hacker Movie
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8 years ago+48 48 0 x 1Why vegetarians around the world need to get off their high horse
There is a need to delink vegetarianism from an intrinsic morality.
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8 years ago+30 30 0 x 1Art of the Marbler
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8 years ago+34 35 1 x 1Terrified dolphin throws himself at man's feet to escape hunters
Heartbreaking Video of Rissos dying on the beach. The Cove, Taiji, Japan Taiji, Japan, is a bloodbath once again — and a heartbreaking video captures the final moments of the hunt's first victims.
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Analysis
8 years agoAnalysis+20 20 0End of the road for journalists? Tencent's Robot reporter 'Dreamwriter' churns out perfect 1,000-word news story - in 60 seconds
Tencent publishes word-perfect business article on inflation, complete with analysts' comments, crafted in a minute by a computer programme.
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Current Event
8 years ago+26 26 0Censored: A Young Survivor Decries Handling of Tianjin Explosion
On Sept. 7, an anonymous user of social media platform Weibo posted what claims to be a first-hand account of the explosion, from a home merely blocks away. The author has not responded to a Weibo message seeking comment, and Foreign Policy has not b ...
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8 years ago+21 21 0It’s impossible to afford NYC rents on the minimum wage
A study found there is not one Big Apple neighborhood where a worker earning the state minimum can afford the median rent. In fact, a New Yorker would need to make at least $38.80 an hour — or more than four times the $8.75 minimum wage — to afford ...
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8 years agoAnalysis+23 23 0Peter Tasker: China's economic struggles and the lessons of the 'three Japans'
Is China turning Japanese? Official attempts to prop up the Chinese stock market and the recent run of poor economic data have had commentators grasping for precedents from the Japanese experience. The problem is that China's dizzying ascent has ...
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8 years ago+26 26 0Asia's smartphone addiction
A recent study surveyed almost 1,000 students in South Korea, where 72% of children own a smartphone by the age of 11 or 12 and spend on average 5.4 hours a day on them - as a result about 25% of children were considered addicted to smartphones. The ...
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8 years ago+23 23 0Canadian banks helping clients bend rules to move money out of China
Revelation raises serious questions among legal experts about the effectiveness of federal laws meant to curb money laundering and transnational crime / A recent study by Macdonald Realty said 70 per cent of clients who paid more than $3-million for ...
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8 years ago+20 20 0China's Silk Road initiatives could shake up European port cities' status quo
On July 23, a packed freight train came to a halt in the Port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where clattering forklift trucks unloaded heaping mounds of coffee. The beans' arrival marked the first time for goods from China to reach Europe’s bigg ...
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8 years ago+41 41 0 x 1Phone calls a thing of the past as Britons use smartphones for everything but phoning
Chatting on the phone has become a thing of the past for many Brits, with one in four adults now almost never using their smartphone to make calls
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Current Event
8 years ago+19 19 0China freezes outbound investment quotas as outflows hurt Yuan
China refrained from granting new quotas for residents to invest in overseas markets for a fifth month in August, the longest halt in six years, as authorities seek to stem weakness in the yuan.
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8 years ago+35 35 0 x 1Beijing’s policy flops don't spell doom for China’s real economy - just investor expectations
The market rescue attempt in particular, while not hugely damaging to the real economy, has raised the question of whether the Xi Jinping administration is committed to economic reforms. Those concerns were compounded when some observers initially co ...
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8 years ago+22 22 0White Rhinoceros
Hiroshi Sugimoto, White Rhinoceros, 1980; Gelatin Silver Print, 13 7/16 x 23 1/16 in.
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8 years ago+22 22 0China's transition is complicated, but the dragon has not lost its fire
Predicting China's long-term trajectory is vital not just for the global economy, but for the strategies of many businesses - By Vivek Tulpule, Rio Tinto’s head of economics and markets
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8 years ago+28 28 0It’s probably a myth that we’re not getting enough sleep
For a long time doctors and scientists had ignored sleep’s importance to health. We’ve only begun to see how much it matters in the last few decades. And thus, we have never systematically gathered data on how much people really sleep.
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