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Sunday 05/August/2018 14:30 PM

Rethinking the Internet of Things

At a telecommunications conference hosted by Huawei late last year, I told a group of senior executives looking for growth opportunities in a saturated...

Sunday 05/August/2018 14:10 PM

China’s summer of discontent

Politics has a nasty habit of surprising us – especially in a country like China, where there is little transparency and a lot of intrigue. Five months...

Saturday 04/August/2018 15:14 PM

Steve Bannon’s boost to Europe’s far right

The various movements gathered under the name of Europe’s "far right” have not risen like a straight line on a graph. There have been - still are -...

Saturday 04/August/2018 14:18 PM

Lebanon hits political logjam after election

Lebanon faces a political impasse three months after an election produced a parliament tilted in favour of Hezbollah, with no sign of compromises needed to...

Wednesday 01/August/2018 17:00 PM

Pakistan’s IMF problem

After Pakistan’s recent election, Imran Khan and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party are now forming a new government. As usual, it will be greeted...

Wednesday 01/August/2018 16:25 PM

The venality of evil

On July 23, Alejandro Werner, the Director of the International Monetary Fund’s Western Hemisphere Department, announced that the Fund was expecting...