The world this week -- Business 本周国际要闻商业 Jack Dorsey stepped down as chief executive of Twitter, which he helped found in 2006. 杰克多尔西辞去了推特首席执行官一职,他在2006年参与创立了推特。 Investors have...
The world this week -- Politics 本周国际要闻政治 The UN issued a report on Afghanistans economy. 联合国发布了一份关于阿富汗经济的报告。 It predicted that GDP will shrink by 20% within a year. 报告预测该国GDP将在一年...
Books and Arts -- Book Review 文学与艺术书评 Cinema royalty -- Two faces of a star 电影皇族一个明星的两面 Garbo. By Robert Gottlieb. 《嘉宝》,作者:罗伯特戈特利布。 She was everything on screen and not much off it. 她...
Business 商业 Bartleby -- The office of the future 巴托比专栏未来的办公室 Cubicles are out. Bars, neighbourhoods and sensors are in. 不再是格子间。吧台、社区和传感器统统加入。 The office used to be a place people wen...
The sinking currency, by raising the cost of imports, has helped push up inflation by about eight percentage points over the past year, to a rate around four times the central banks target. 在过去一年里,由于进口成本的上升,货币不断...
Finance and Economics 财经版块 Emerging markets Living the high life 新兴市场 高生活成本 Cautionary tales from high-inflation economies 高通胀经济体的警示故事 In recent months the world economy has come to resemble a badly mic...
The Americas 美洲板块 Latin American TV 1001 episodes 拉丁美洲的电视剧 1001集 Why turkish telenovelas are thriving 为什么土耳其电视剧在拉丁美洲如此火爆? Sherezade, a young widow, needs cash to pay for her sons leukaem...
The world this week -- Business 本周国际要闻商业 Joe Biden nominated Jerome Powell for a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve. 乔拜登提名杰罗姆鲍威尔连任美联储主席。 Left-wing Democrats had sought to boot Mr Powel...
The world this week -- Politics 本周国际要闻政治 Two months after an election, a deal to form a new German government was unveiled. 大选两个月后,一项有关组建新一届德国政府的协议公布。 Olaf Scholz of the Social Democ...
Business 商业 Newspapers -- Paper chase 报纸追纸 Soaring newsprint costs make life even harder 飞涨的新闻纸价让日子变得更加艰难 Its like tasering an elderly person whos already on a pacemaker, says a British newspaper boss of th...