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When Sophia Huang Xueqin walked out of prison on Friday, she returned to a feminist movement that looks very different from the one she helped build. The journalist, whose reporting on sexual harassment survivors helped ignite China’s #MeToo movement, was released five years after her arrest. According to activists interviewed by The Guardian, the movement…
California declared a statewide emergency on September 21 for storms that have not arrived yet. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proclamation is designed to mobilize resources and speed up procurement ahead of an El Niño that federal forecasters say has a greater than 90% chance of becoming very strong this fall and winter. The forecast behind that…
Humanoid robots are breaking athletic records in Beijing. China’s larger bet depends on whether those same machines can navigate warehouses, restaurants and factories when the physical world refuses to behave perfectly. A humanoid robot ran 100 meters in 9.39 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing this weekend, faster than Usain Bolt’s human world record…
The kingdom has spent years citing non-oil growth as proof the economy is changing. June’s business data offer a harder test: whether that growth reaches payrolls, revenues and permits, or stops at the aggregate. Arab News reported that Saudi Arabia’s Operating Revenues Index rose 6.1 percent year on year in June, supported by a 16.9 percent…
India can finance new metros, highways and airports. Whether it can build them is a separate question, and the answer has spent the past year sitting in a factory in Guangzhou. Reuters reported, citing two government sources, that India is set to approve a $1.2 billion incentive scheme for high-value, technologically sophisticated construction and infrastructure equipment, aimed at…
Completions are surging while new launches collapse. The gap between those two numbers is where the market finds out what its prices were actually made of. By Bryson Davis | Society & Economy Waheed Abbas reported for the Khaleej Times that Dubai is on pace to complete roughly 55,600 homes in 2026, the emirate’s largest annual delivery volume since 2008….
Japan spent decades trying to create the economic conditions it has now. Wages are rising. Companies are earning more. Stocks are near record territory. The Bank of Japan has raised interest rates to their highest level in more than three decades. Yet Japan’s Statistics Bureau reported that real consumption by households of two or more…
A crore incentive program is moving workers into the provident-fund system faster than it is changing who gets hired into it. India’s flagship formal-employment program is succeeding at volume while reproducing the gender composition of the labor market it was built to expand, according to Labour Ministry data reported by Auhona Mukherjee in Business Standard….
Last year, Czechia’s digital-ID app crashed during a parliamentary election. On Thursday, the government asked 40,000 people to log in at the same time to see if the problem is fixed. Czech authorities are inviting eDoklady users to simultaneously access the country’s digital identification app in a coordinated load test designed to recreate the traffic surge that…
India has enrolled 53,449 people in artificial intelligence job training through one of its flagship skills programs. The government has also acknowledged something more significant: it has not conducted a specific assessment of how much demand exists for those AI skills, or how large the country’s shortage of trained workers actually is. The disclosure came…