The Economist

3 May 2013

For the second time in just over six months, China’s president, Xi Jinping, is gracing the cover of The Economist, although Beijing appears unimpressed and unamused.

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Ma Ying-jeou won't lodge protest over Economist's 'bumbler' quip

20 Nov 2012

Taiwan has no plans to lodge a protest with British magazine The Economist for its article branding the island's president an "ineffectual bumbler", a spokesman for President Ma Ying-jeou said...

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Economist story on 'bumbler' Ma causes storm in Taiwan

19 Nov 2012

An article in British magazine The Economist branding Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou "a bumbler" has set off a media storm on the island, causing even the opposition to give a rare show of support...

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Ex-Australian PM Rudd rebukes UN agency over food security 'failures'

27 Sep 2012

Kevin Rudd on Thursday slammed the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation for failing at its job, and threatened to pull Australian funding, at a conference in Hong Kong.

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Digest: Is Twitter a "media", or just a platform for media?

24 Sep 2012

It is no doubt that Twitter has become one of world's best platforms to share real-time information. At the same time, it also makes money from selling ads, just like media outlets do.

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Digest: More experiment needed for multiplatform strategy

11 Sep 2012

"Where to go" is no longer a major question for news publications. Many of them are aware that the future will involve offering content on multiple platforms.

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Opinion

Michael Cox

The 1-2 punch heard around the world

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Wang Xiangwei

Placating graduates a work in progress

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Normal service resumed as HK ranks 31st for liveability in annual EIU survey

Hong Kong's brief reign as the world's most liveable city has ended. The latest annual survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) ranks it 31st, after the city claimed top spot in a special...

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Nature's riches

How did Hong Kong top a global liveability ranking associated with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)?

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Great city, but only with a pinch of salt

Our city has no shortage of sobriquets - the world's freest economy, Asia's world city, Pearl of the Orient. We also feature in all sorts of surveys and rankings, some of which find that we are...

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Reality check

Hong Kong is a great city, but the world's best? That status is as subjective as the music we like, a matter of personal preference.

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Megachange: The World in 2050 (The Economist)

Megachange: The World in 2050 (The Economist)
edited by D. Franklin, John Andrews
The Economist

This book looks at our world 38 years from now. That's 38 orbits of the...

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HK workforce ranked 'best in Asia'

Hong Kong's workforce is the most productive in Asia, a report says, helping the city rank as the fourth most competitive in the world.

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