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[Featured Image] Devaluing the Chinese Yuan

Commodity Culture and Currency Wars: The Consequence of Devaluating China

Global financial markets were thrown into panic as China allowed the Yuan to devalue for three days in a row in an effort to combat the countries slowing economic growth. The annual increase of China’s economy has slowed from...
by Vincent Gillan
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Population Control: An economic approach

How population control influences economic growth  Economic growth is often heralded as the guarantee of future prosperity for a countries inhabitants and the leading measure of a modern civilisations progression, but is it po...
by Jashan Miller
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Opening the Future of Friendship: Northeast Asia must learn from lessons of WW2

At the end of World War II vast swathes of Europe and Asia had been reduced to rubble. Borders were redrawn and homecomings, expulsions, and burials were underway as life goes on for those who survived the Great War. When the w...
by Yaerin Ku
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Without a home, without a solution: Short-term fixes won’t solve the world’s refugee crises

Recently, a destabilising and disturbing trend has been proliferating throughout all corners of the globe. This year has seen record numbers of refugees fleeing economic hardship, political prosecution, and vicious attacks in c...
by Jamal Russell Black
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China’s trade-off: Economic growth versus migrant welfare

Migrants in China often have to work long hours, are underpaid and are hired illegally, not bound by an authorised labour contract. Having to work in hazardous work conditions, sometimes with only a few days off a year, fallin...
by Helen Hawgood
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Five Milestones For Women’s Rights We Should Achieve In 2015

This year will see the 20th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women in September 1995 in Beijing, which produced a blueprint for advancing women’s rights.  20 years on, what  still needs to be done for women?
by Sneha Nanavati
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The problem of food waste in China: Part 2

In the first part of this feature, astonishing new statistics regarding food waste across China were revealed. As more and more consumables are left on plates each year, the Chinese government is forced into increasingly hazard...
by Michael Rose
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The problem of food waste in China: Part 1

While events seen at November’s APEC conference in Beijing endeavoured to present China’s refreshed attitude towards worldwide ecological stability, recent research shows that a less-publicised environmental concern is send...
by Michael Rose
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COP20: Sun shines from Machu Picchu

Activists from Greenpeace have used the world-renowned Temple of the Sun at Machu Picchu to publicise a pro-solar message to global leaders. As the climate world gathers in Lima, Perú, to negotiate a new agreement on climate c...
by Hamish McKenzie
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