Few pests wreak more havoc on coffee plantations than the berry-borer beetle. 咖啡浆果甲虫能对咖啡种植园造成很大破坏，很少有害虫能比它们更厉害。 In Brazil alone its depredations are reckoned to cost $300m a year, 仅在...
The world this week 本周要闻 Business 商业 Carlos Ghosn was released from detention in Tokyo after posting bail of ￥1bn ($9m). The sacked chairman of Nissan, Mitsubishi and Renault had been held in custody since mid-November on charges of fin...
埃航失事:波音信誉遭到危机(1) Leaders 《社论》版块 The aircraft industry 飞机业 Plane truths 飞机真相 The crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 shows why a golden age for the worlds aircraft duopoly may be over 埃塞俄比亚...
非洲新抢夺战(3) Even so, Africans can do more to increase their share of the benefits. First, voters and activists can insist on transparency. It is heartening that South Africa is investigating the allegedly crooked deals struck under the prev...
The money-laundering scandal that struck Danske Bank last year was staggering. 丹麦丹斯克银行去年爆出的洗钱丑闻令人震惊。 The Danish lender's Estonian branch is suspected of handling up to $230bn of iffy funds from former Soviet...
Commercial ties are being upended. As recently as 2006 Africas three biggest trading partners were America, China and France, in that order. By 2018 it was China first, India second and America third (France was seventh). Over the same period Africas...
In this respect the news is less encouraging. Across the OECD the gender pay gap of full-time employees averages 13.5% and varies widely, 在这一方面，新闻就没那么鼓舞人心。经济合作与发展组织（OECD）中，全职员工的性别...
Leaders 《社论》 The new scramble for Africa 非洲新抢夺战 This time, the winners could be Africans themselves 这一次，赢家可能是非洲人 The first great surge of foreign interest in Africa, dubbed the scramble, was when 19th-centu...
Estonias centre-right Reform Party won a legislative election with 29% of the vote. Kaja Kallas, its leader, began coalition negotiations with the centre-left Centre Party and could become the countrys first female prime minister. 爱沙尼亚中右翼...
The glass ceiling in the corporate world is not broken, but it is starting to crack. 企业界的玻璃天花板没有破碎，但就要开始破裂了。 Women are getting on to corporate boards at greater speed, and in greater numbers. 企业董事会...
