As incomes rise in China, so does concern about pollution

Oct 25, 2016 18:23 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy

Over the last 40 years, hundreds of millions of people in China have escaped poverty as this enormous nation urbanized and became a manufacturing powerhouse fueled by cheap coal and cheap labor. But this development...

How can doctors use technology to help them diagnose?

Oct 25, 2016 18:17 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology Health

In Japans first reported case of artificial intelligence saving someones life, an AI has succeeded where a team of skilled human doctors did not. A woman with a rare type of leukaemia was correctly diagnosed by the AI....

Blockchain Revolution Series

Blockchain: reinventing the squeaky wheel

Oct 25, 2016 18:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views Fintech

Apparently, the world is holding its breath on the unloading of a few bales of cotton, which could change trade forever. In Qingdao sometime in early November, 88 bales of cotton will be unloaded and ownership of the...

Migrant Crisis Series

Challenging the ‘birthright lottery’ can provide a better way to view refugees

Oct 25, 2016 18:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views

One of the great obstacles in securing more humane approaches to refugee issues is the perception on the part of politicians that harsh treatment of refugees is a vote-winner with at least some of their...

US Election Series

The election of Hillary Clinton promises a more dangerous world

Oct 25, 2016 17:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics

In a long and often exasperating presidential campaign, Americans and the world have been subjected to Donald Trumps odious and often incoherent rhetoric, and from both sides much vitriol and endless accusations of deceit,...

Asian home buyers less likely to default on their mortgage: study

Oct 25, 2016 17:55 pm UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate

People from cultural backgrounds where getting financial assistance from families is the norm are less likely to default on their mortgages, new research shows. This includes those from South East Asian countries. We...

Future of Coal Series

The gas industry needs a carbon price to compete with coal

Oct 25, 2016 17:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views

Putting a price on carbon would benefit the Australian gas industry, at least in the short term. It is therefore in the interests of gas producers to lobby for the emissions trading scheme proposed for the electricity...