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Capitalism is having an identity crisis – but it is still the best system

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The 73-year-old Vietnamese refugee is responsible for bringing Sriracha to American consumers

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Electric Truckmaker Rivian, Backed By Amazon, Ford, Raises Whopping $1.3 Billion

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Taliban treatment of Afghanistan women violates international law, new NGO report says – JURIST

Amnesty International and the International Commission for Jurists (ICJ) highlighted in a report released Friday that the Taliban crackdown on Afghan women’s rights could amount to gender persecution under international law. The […]

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ZA Bank Set to Launch Virtual Asset Trading Services in Hong Kong

Hong Kong-based virtual bank ZA Bank is set to launch asset trading services for retail investors. Through the launch, ZA Bank looks to support the Hong Kong SAR government’s vision to develop […]

Germany sounds alarm over rise of anti-government extremism – JURIST

Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution—or the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV)—warned Monday against rising levels of anti-government extremism in the midst of provocation from authoritarian states, such as Russia. […]

ECHR finds Romania violated same-sex couples’ rights in denying marriage recognition – JURIST

European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found Tuesday that Romania violated the European Convention on Human Rights article 8’s right to respect for private and family life because of the “absence of […]

Banks

Financial Edge and Northeastern University London Launch Investment Banking Degree

Financial Edge, the training provider for Wall Street investment banks, has joined forces with Northeastern University London to launch a new Masters in Global Investment Banking. The programne caters to postgraduate students from […]

China and Russia compete for Central Asia’s favour

Central Asia’s top brass is on tour. On May 9th presidents of the region’s former Soviet republics were in Moscow, having been roped in as spectators for Vladimir Putin’s annual military parade. […]

China’s state capitalists celebrate their soaring shares

Remember the name: China Science Publishing & Media (cspm) might be the hottest state-owned textbook stock, ever. Shares in the company, which publishes titles such as “Gaseous Detonation Physics and its Universal […]

What performance-enhancing stimulants mean for economic growth

Towards the end of last year America began running short of medicines used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd), including Adderall (an amphetamine) and Ritalin (a central-nervous-system stimulant). Nine in ten pharmacies […]

Banks

Change for Good? Starling Bank Founder Anne Boden Steps Down as CEO

Anne Boden, founder of Starling Bank, is to step aside as CEO at the end of June. Her decision to step down after nine years at the helm coincides with Starling’s record […]

The American credit cycle is at a dangerous point

The celebrated tome “Capital in the Twentieth Century”, by Thomas Piketty, a French economist, runs to 204,000 words—longer even than Homer’s “Odyssey”. But the book’s central argument can be distilled to a […]

Germany expert commission releases report recommending legalization of early-stage abortion and amended laws for later-term pregnancies – JURIST

The Commission on Reproductive Self-Determination and Reproductive Medicine in Germany on Monday submitted a final report recommending the legalization of abortion within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy in the country.The German […]

Australia judge rules in defamation trial that former government adviser raped a colleague in parliament – JURIST

Australia Federal Court Justice Michael Lee found that former government adviser Bruce Lehrmann raped a colleague in a Parliament House office on Monday. The judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit Lehrmann brought against […]

Poland classifies attack on humanitarian aid workers as murder, demands Israeli cooperation in investigation – JURIST

The Polish government on Friday labeled the death of Polish aid worker Damian Soból as murder, following the deaths of seven humanitarian aid workers from the World Central Kitchen (WCK) serving in […]

Amnesty International urges immediate investigation into war crimes in Merawi, Ethiopia – JURIST