Shanghai was hit by Typhoon Bebinca on September 16th. Hundreds of thousands of residents were evacuated in what state media ...

But huge protests in France last year against a higher pension age triggered anxious and angry comments in China over the ...

Depending on where you draw the line between rich and poor countries, the worst-off have stopped growing faster than richer ...

In sum, private-sector investment will not preserve declining American economic influence in Asia. America has no clear ...

If the trend towards smaller and more specialised models continues, then the ai universe could contain a constellation of ...

E ach year China makes as much steel as the rest of the world combined. The vast scale of its output—around 1bn tonnes a year ...

Progress on infectious diseases, which thrive in the poorest countries, has slowed sharply. If the share of people ...

The accusation of Western double standards, gleefully amplified by Russia and China, resonated across the halls of UN ...

The firm, which now goes by PwC rather than PricewaterhouseCoopers, at least spares Edwin’s memory the indignity of having ...

A major redrawing of the map of the South China Sea began when Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. In the subsequent three ...

These measures reduce China’s Gini index—a common measure of inequality—from about 54.5 to 51.6. Chart: The Economist But redistributing cash is not the only way to help the poor. Governments can also ...

Private tutoring is well known as an East Asian phenomenon. Apart from in China, most students in East Asia get it: 72% in ...