Why China is cracking down on foreign investment
Aug 22, 2017 14:49 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Big Chinese companies have been on an overseas buying spree in recent years, spending more than US$1.6 trillion scooping up businesses, property and trophy assets like football clubs. But a directive from the Central...
Why you should care about China's VPN crackdown
Aug 22, 2017 14:42 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Internet censors have a new target. The Chinese and Russian governments recently announced plans to block the use of virtual private networks (VPNs), which are a key tool for people trying to avoid internet restrictions...
Colleges need affirmative action – but it can be expanded
Aug 21, 2017 13:40 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
In 2003, Justice Antonin Scalia predicted that the Supreme Courts sanctioning of race-conscious affirmative action in higher education would spark future litigation for years to come. And right he was. From defeated claims...
Trump's threat to withdraw from NAFTA may hit a hurdle: The US Constitution
Aug 17, 2017 15:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
On Aug. 16, representatives of the U.S., Canada and Mexico formally begin renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), an accord that has governed matters of trade and security on the continent for 23...
Heroin trafficking through South Africa: why here and why now?
Aug 15, 2017 14:30 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
A series of large heroin seizures have been made in South Africa since 2016, but the country is just one of the pitstops on Africas heroin highway. The African continent is geographically situated between opium...
Forced conversions of Hindu girls in Pakistan make a mockery of its constitution
Aug 15, 2017 12:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life Law
In a famous speech on August 11 1947, Pakistans founder and first governor general, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, stressed that the new country was being built on the idea of religious tolerance: You are free; you are free to...
Is liking something on Facebook 'protected political speech'? It depends
Aug 15, 2017 12:51 pm UTC| Technology Politics Law
Australians are often surprised to learn that their Constitution contains no right to free speech. Even the right to political speech, which is constitutionally implied, is increasingly complicated by new online platforms...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight