Populist rhetoric, heightened security reviews and global tensions contribute to reduced foreign investment in the West, report Tom Fairless and Paul Hannon for the Wall Street Journal. Foreign investment in the United States fell by 9 percent and 30 percent in Germany. The writers point out that...
Businesses around the world eye the massive Chinese market, and for professional basketball, that market makes up around 10 percent of NBA gross revenue. A tweet sent by the general manager of the Houston Rockets in support of the Hong Kong protests has jeopardized a market worth billions of...
You can dribble, but not speak: China's Party Chairman Xi Jinping inspects troops and warns the world; NBA Commissioner Adam Silver in a quandary over free speech
DURHAM: A Twitter post from the general manager of the Houston Rockets of the NBA,...
Fire conditions in Australia are horrific, and the rest of the world questions a strategy that relies on a largely volunteer firefighting force and poor examples of leadership, allowing a massive fireworks display to welcome the New Year. More than 12 million acres have burned. Tens of thousands...
Protests sweep throughout the United States after a handcuffed man died in police custody in Minneapolis. Onlookers filmed and pleaded with police officers to stop, after one held his knee to the back of the man’s neck for more than eight minutes. Some extremists disrupt the peaceful protests, and...
Young adults must become engaged in politics or risk living in poverty. “Borrowing rates are historically low,” explains Jessica Irvine for the Sydney Morning Herald. “But eventually the books should balance, and when they do, they will do so on the shoulders of future generations who will pay...
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Read about government debt to GDP. Jessica Irvine has been writing about economics for Fairfax since 2005, including a two-year stint in the Canberra Press Gallery. She has an honours degree in Economics (Social Sciences) from the...
WikiLeaks is releasing sensitive documents – including emails from the Democratic National Committee in the United States and those of the Turkish prime minister – without ample vetting: “lately the timing of and tone surrounding their leaks have felt a little off,” comments Emma Grey Ellis for...
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North Koreans are thought to be behind a cyber attack aimed at South Korean and US government and business websites. The attack – known as denial of service in which malicious software instructs thousands of personal computers to visit particular websites simultaneously – is not uncommon, though a...
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Barack Obama’s inaugural address had an international audience, hanging on every word to detect a new direction in American foreign policy. Some Chinese censors took offense at a comment on communism and in translations deleted the phrase, ”Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and...
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