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Illegal gangs in South Africa mining chromium, a component in stainless steel production, to meet Chinese demand for the metal leave behind a scarred land and divided villages.
Whether it’s to watch Netflix or access banned sites, the use of virtual private networks like NordVPN and ExpressVPN has rocketed in recent years. But are VPN users ever truly hidden?
Fake-meat pioneers Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods wanted to finish the global meat industry, but what hooked investors and looked like a game-changer now appears to have been little more than a fad.
The Toyota Prius hybrid and all-electric Nissan Leaf had early-mover advantage, so why is no Japanese company among the top 20 makers of electric vehicles now?
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China’s efforts to rein in its housing crisis have proved costly for everyone, from huge developers like Evergrande to workers with slim chance of ever getting on the property ladder.
British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said the move ‘underlines our disgust’ at the decision to put Alireza Akbari to death.
‘Recycling’ schemes from fast-fashion giants like H&M and Zara result in less than 1 per cent of old clothes turned into new items. In nations like Ghana, the result is all around.
Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine saw the pharmaceutical company become the world’s most visible drug maker, but with its stock falling in 2022, success has left investors impatient for an encore.
Ruili, on the China-Myanmar frontier, has endured seven lockdowns that shut off border traffic, shuttered businesses and left residents short of food.
Psychedelics have entered the mainstream to treat conditions from depression to PTSD. As legalisation looms, the ensuing gold rush could lead pharmaceutical firms and clinics to put profits first.
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Yuri Milner on Nov. 3, 2019, in Mountain View, Calif.

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Yuri Milner got rich investing in start-ups like Facebook and Twitter, with much of his seed money linked back to the Kremlin, but now he is distancing himself from Vladimir Putin.
Launched in 2018, the China Initiative has largely failed in rooting out spies in America’s corporations and labs, but has succeeded in driving many pioneering scientists back to China.
Once the world’s largest real estate developer, China Evergrande is at risk of drowning in a tsunami of debt as Beijing changes monetary tack. Just how far will the ripples be felt?
The racism in Silicon Valley that holds Asian-Americans back is subtle but pervasive, say its victims.
Tesla’s hi-tech halo, and Elon Musk’s star power, may no longer be enough to protect the company from the risks of doing business in China.
China’s efforts to kick-start a ‘global energy internet’, a worldwide network of power-transmission supergrids, might be gaining traction, but not exactly as President Xi Jinping envisioned.
With more than a billion downloads, the short-form video app owned by start-up ByteDance has captured the imagination of users across the globe. So what makes TikTok tick?
