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Tuesday 17/May/2016 16:55 PM

What’s wrong with executive compensation?

It’s annual general meeting (AGM) season for public companies around the world, and, as in previous years, one issue has been moving company news from the...

Tuesday 17/May/2016 16:41 PM

Why China doesn't care about privacy

For a few days last week, China appeared to have its own, slow-motion Wikileaks. Via Twitter, someone using the handle @shenfenzheng leaked personal...

Tuesday 17/May/2016 16:23 PM

The return of yellow fever

Before the horrors of the latest Ebola outbreak in West Africa could even begin to fade from our minds, the Zika virus emerged as a major global health...

Tuesday 17/May/2016 15:52 PM

Libyan quagmire to inevitably continue

The decision on Monday in Vienna to provide 'arms' to a Libyan Government that exists in name only, the GNA, has taken the international communities...

Sunday 15/May/2016 17:06 PM

Finishing what Einstein started

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, two enormous black holes – each with a mass roughly 30 times larger than that of the sun – collided and...

Sunday 15/May/2016 16:50 PM

Improving governance in the Arab world

A recent survey of 100 Arab thought leaders conducted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace revealed a sweeping consensus about what underlies...