International criminal syndicates, armed and richly funded, are winning the war against human trafficking, with 50 million people enslaved and 6.3 million in forced prostitution around the world.

After two months of the tariff trade war, the U.S. dollar has weakened, resulting in a situation where countries are withdrawing investments from the once attractive U.S. market. The trillion ...

The furore over Mayer Brown rescinding their retainer to represent Hong Kong University’s demand for the removal of the memorial to those killed in the Tiananmen Square massacre raises some ...

Mining giant Glencore has been extracting copper in the Peruvian province of Espinar for more than a decade. During that time, the presence of toxic metals in the local environment and people has ...

Soft power – the sum total of state capacity, influence, and impact, that can be attributed to predominantly the cultural, ideological, and discursive might of the state, as manifested through ...

“China is not liked!” I said. It was an evening in 2009 when I was casually discussing soft power with my mates from graduate school. One of my friends from mainland China quickly responded ...

Over the past 18 months, the Federal Reserve (Fed) has raised rates by 525 basis points (bps), its biggest tightening of monetary policy since 1981. Long-term bond yields have also soared.

Pension assets across the largest pensions’ markets increased 11% in 2020, according to the Global Pensions Assets Study 2021 by Willis Towers Watson. Asia Pacific pension funds beat their peers ...

20 minutes till boarding. 30 people in the queue. 1 exhausted academic tapping frantically away at 1 phone. 4 open counters. 12 closed. 600m worth of walking. 1 connecting bus ride. I was standing ...

In January, the Finance Secretary Paul Chan went to Davos as part of an effort to encourage the world to join the government in its “embrace of a new start” for Hong Kong and to sell its ...

On Monday, more than 230 people packed into the Foreign Correspondents Club (FCC) for an emotional farewell to David Webb, the city’s most prominent activist investor, whose website has defended ...

US President Joe Biden deserves all the praise he received for his recent trip to Ukraine and Poland to mark the first anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion. Biden’s ten-hour train ride ...