The emergence of negative growth in the total working-age population, which some demographers predict will happen as early as 2013, is likely to contribute to slower economic growth and higher inflation, according to analysts […]
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People of Chinese origin have become the second largest group of billionaires behind the United States, Forbes China said recently […]
Chen Xuyuan, president of Shanghai International Port (Group) Co, said Shanghai would hold on to its record as the world’s biggest port this year after it handled 7.4 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in the first quarter of 2011 […]
According to Gallup’s 2010 global wellbeing survey, only 12 percent of people on China’s mainland judged themselves to be thriving, the same level as countries such as Afghanistan and Yemen […]
China boosted electricity generation to a seven-month high in March/2011 […]
Back in 2009, China became the world’s largest automobile producer with the world’s largest automobile market, selling over 8 million units […]
More mainland tourists are expected to spend money on overseas travel in 2011, according to a report released to the national tourism authority recently […]
Erik is the co-founder of Ushahidi (which means “testimony” in Swahili), a web application created to map the reported incidents of violence happening during the post-election crisis in Kenya. Currently, he is working with a team of mostly-African programmers to continue development of this new free and open source platform that makes it easier to crowdsource crisis information and visualize data […]
Shanghai had 22.21 million residents by the end of 2010 – 14.12 million with registered residency and 8.3 million migrants who lived in the city for more than six months […]
We make important decisions every day — and we often rely on experts to help us decide. But, says economist Noreena Hertz, relying too much on experts can be limiting and even dangerous. She calls for us to start democratizing expertise — to listen not only to “surgeons and CEOs, but also to shop staff.” […]