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As China's youth excercise their new-found wealth and independence the battle for their custom is hotting up. Engine of change: rock band The Wheels are example of a newly expressive youth in China It could have been any other...
Chinese brides, who value platinum partly because it goes so well with a white wedding dress, are on course to snap up enough of the metal to make up for a fall in demand from the auto components industry
Denuclearisation will only come when bridges have been built with Pyongyang and it feels firmly set on a new economic course Negotiations over the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula look set to resume . Sadly, they are...
Nov 20 - As the world celebrates Universal Children's Day, many Chinese children still have to study up to 70 hours a week to get ahead. Kitty Bu reports. No videos currently selected. Click on any video below, from any...
By Alan Beattie, the FT’s world trade editor Look, not my specialist subject, but here’s my eurocent’s-worth on the appointment of the Baroness High Representative and the Lord High Everything Else. (Incidentally, I’d have...
By Tim Johnston in Vientiane, Laos From the window of his office in the Laotian capital Vientiane, Jeremy Bird looks down on a lazy arc of the Mekong river about half way along its 4,400km journey from its turbulent headwaters...
Nov 20 - A panda born in Austria is moved to native habitat in China's Sichuan province. Two year-old panda Fu Long has been a star exhibit at the Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna since he was born two years ago - the first panda in...
O-levels could be reintroduced to English schools as growing numbers of pupils take the traditional exams overseas. By Graeme Paton, Education Editor Teenagers will be allowed to switch to the qualifications, which were...
Global trade has contracted in 2009 at a rate not seen since the Great Depression, and those paying the heaviest price are those who can least afford it. So, when trade ministers from the 153 World Trade Organization members...
From the FT: Tackling systemic risk is no job for the status quo - William Donaldson and Arthur Levitt From elsewhere: China, the Renminbi, and global imbalances: A quantative View - Econbrowser The Big Squander - Paul Krugman,...
