愚蠢至机(2) The case for flying on a private jet is that it can save time for someone, such as a chief executive, whose time is extraordinarily valuable. Hence companies can offset the cost of these flights against their corporate-tax bills. In s...
The world this week 本周要闻 Politics 政治 Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the president of Algeria, defied protesters by registering to run for a fifth term in office. The ailing octogenarian is widely seen as a figurehead for a cabal of generals and bu...
The newly reported patient, treated by Ravindra Gupta of University College, London, and his colleagues, 最新报道中的病人，由伦敦大学学院的Ravindra Gupta及同事进行治疗， had Hodgkin's lymphoma and underwent a stem-cell transp...
Aviation 航空 Plane stupid 愚蠢至机 Private jets receive ludicrous tax breaks that hurt the environment 私人飞机破坏环境而又享受荒谬可笑的税收优惠 The blue jeans and T-shirts of the global elite are no more comfortable than...
Established HIV infection is easy to control but impossible to cure. Or almost impossible. 已确定的艾滋病（HIV）感染很容易控制，但不可治愈。或者说几乎不可治愈。 The exception seems to be Timothy Brown, a man often ref...
By the same token, Mr Modi has not sparked the outright communal conflagration his critics, The Economist included, fretted about before he became prime minister. But his government has often displayed hostility to Indias Muslim minority and sympathy...
That is low compared with remittances from workers sent abroad by the state, which are estimated to be in the hundreds of millions. 和该国派往国外工人的汇款相比较低，据估国外工人往韩国国内的汇款为亿万美元。 (Sanct...
In the long run, stability depends on Pakistan ending its indefensible support for terrorism. Its prime minister, Imran Khan, is urging dialogue and, in a promising gesture, was due to release Indias pilotpresumably with the approval of the army chie...
In February 2018 Jessie Kim found out that she had been sending money to a dead man. 2018年2月，Jessie Kim发现自己一直在给一个死人打钱。 Ms Kim, now a 27-year-old student in Seoul, fled North Korea for China in 2011. 现年Kim27岁的...
Has he annoyed the Kremlin? 他惹恼了克里姆林宫吗？ International investors reacted with shock to the arrest of Michael Calvey in Moscow. Mr Calvey, an American, runs Baring Vostok, a big private-equity firm in Russia. He has been accused,...
