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Improving 'quality' is crucial for China's development

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CHINA

The country's lingering reputation for unreliable products and infrastructure is increasingly belied by facts, and the government views 'quality' as central to China's next stage…

Space debris threatens global economy and security

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INTERNATIONAL

Space debris.

China's cyber strategy will have global impact

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CHINA

China's national cyber strategy.

Indian government seeks to 'democratise' e-commerce

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INDIA

This is an effort to ‘democratise’ e-commerce in the country and reduce the dominance of transnational e-commerce players such as Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart. Established as…

China's social credit system creates risk to business

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CHINA

Foreign media typically present China’s efforts to build the 'social credit' system as an Orwellian nightmare where the state uses information technology to conduct…

‘Smart cities’ offer partial solution to urban stress

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INTERNATIONAL

Smart cities.

Puerto Rican politics will not lead to debt solution

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PUERTO RICO

The island is in a debt crisis, with the governor acknowledging that it cannot pay off all its debt. While the overall debt burden is not excessive by national standards, a…

Greece's Syriza will proceed grudgingly with sell-offs

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GREECE

Greece's Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with its international creditors assumes that privatisation proceeds will contribute significantly to the financing of Greece's third…

Pandemic will power push for digitalisation in Japan

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JAPAN

Motivating the new initiatives were delays and snags in delivering cash handouts to families and firms at the height of the coronavirus crisis. Online applications ran into…

Asteroid mining becomes a serious proposition

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INTERNATIONAL

Asteroid mining.