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China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network

The Economist 

“THESE are fields of hope,” says Gu Zhen’an, gesturing at a barren scene. A burly chain-smoker, he spent 25 years overseeing road-building crews in central China. But three years ago, when he finished paving a highway to a new high-speed railway station in this quiet corner of Anhui province, he decided it was time to switch industries. The land still looks empty, served by first-rate infrastructure but home to few people and fewer businesses. Mr Gu, however, sees things differently: he expects a city to sprout up around the train station. Читать дальше...

Opinion is divided on China’s massive infrastructure projects

The Economist 

CHINA is proud of its infrastructure: its cavernous airports, snaking bridges, wide roads, speedy railways and great wall. This national backbone (minus the wall) bears the weight of the world’s second-largest economy and its biggest human migration, as hundreds of millions of people move around the country during the lunar new-year holidays—the rush officially begins on January 13th.

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Guantánamo remains a stain on America’s reputation

The Economist 

IT IS always twilight in the circular passage where the guards keep watch around the clock through wide windows, eyeing the “forever detainees” in Camp Six at America’s naval base at Guantánamo. These are the men who are deemed too dangerous ever to be set free but whose jihadist activities were apparently too shadowy to provide enough evidence to secure convictions in court. The passage is murkily lit so that the guards—and the rare visiting journalist—can peer through one-way glass unobserved by the detainees. Читать дальше...

In Guantánamo, an alleged al-Qaeda killer awaits trial

The Economist 

THE accused, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a diminutive, clean-shaven Saudi aged 52, looks innocuous as he shuffles into court between two burly guards, a blue-gloved hand on each of his shoulders. A young paralegal in his defence team embraces him. If found guilty by a jury of handpicked uniformed officers, he faces the death penalty.

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Obituary: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died on January 8th

The Economist 

IN DEATH as in life, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani defied categorisation. He was a stalwart of a regime dubbed an exporter of terror and heresy. Yet regional arch-foes such as Bahrain and Saudi Arabia mourned his passing, as did the Great Satan itself, via a State Department press briefing. At home, embattled reformists felt they had lost their prime protector.

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Retraining low-skilled workers

The Economist 

IMAGINE YOU ARE a 45-year-old long-distance lorry driver. You never enjoyed school and left as soon as you could, with a smattering of qualifications and no great love of learning. The job is tiring and solitary, but it does at least seem to offer decent job security: driver shortages are a perennial complaint in the industry, and the average age of the workforce is high (48 in Britain), so the shortfalls are likely to get worse. America’s Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS) says there were 1.8m... Читать дальше...

Established education providers v new contenders

The Economist 

THE HYPE OVER MOOCs peaked in 2012. Salman Khan, an investment analyst who had begun teaching bite-sized lessons to his cousin in New Orleans over the internet and turned that activity into a wildly popular educational resource called the Khan Academy, was splashed on the cover of Forbes. Sebastian Thrun, the founder of another MOOC called Udacity, predicted in an interview in Wired magazine that within 50 years the number of universities would collapse to just ten worldwide. The New York Times declared it the year of the MOOC. Читать дальше...

Turning qualifications into jobs

The Economist 

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IS designed to act as a slipway, launching students into the wider world in the expectation that the currents will guide them into a job. In practice, many people get stuck in the doldrums because employers demand evidence of specific experience even from entry-level candidates. Whether this counts as a skills gap is a matter of debate. “If I cannot find a powerful, fuel-efficient, easy-to-park car for $15,000, that doesn’t mean there is a car shortage,” says Peter Cappelli... Читать дальше...

Lifelong learning is becoming an economic imperative

The Economist 

THE RECEPTION AREA contains a segment of a decommissioned Underground train carriage, where visitors wait to be collected. The surfaces are wood and glass. In each room the talk is of code, web development and data science. At first sight the London office of General Assembly looks like that of any other tech startup. But there is one big difference: whereas most firms use technology to sell their products online, General Assembly uses the physical world to teach technology. Its office is also a campus. Читать дальше...

On liberalism, Brexit, Asian banks, Syria, the European Union, data, economists

The Economist 

The liberal disorder

You stressed one aspect of liberalism’s attitude to power and neglected the other two (“The year of living dangerously”, December 24th). Liberals believe in protection from undue power, whether the coercive power of the state, the economic power of concentrated wealth or the unfiltered power of popular majorities. By focusing too long on undue state power, free-market liberalism contributed to the political difficulties liberal democracy now faces with the second and third aspects of undue power... Читать дальше...

Obituary: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died on January 8th

The Economist 

IN DEATH as in life, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani defied categorisation. He was a stalwart of a regime dubbed an exporter of terror and heresy. Yet regional arch-foes such as Bahrain and Saudi Arabia mourned his passing, as did the Great Satan itself, via a State Department press briefing. At home, embattled reformists felt they had lost their prime protector.

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Romania: Tigers, dogs and cats die in circus shelter blaze

TheRepublic.com 

BUCHAREST, Romania — Romanian officials say two tigers were among a number of animals that died when a fire broke out at an animal shelter which houses animals retired from the circus. The Emergency Situations Inspectorate said firefighters managed to save seven tigers, six camels, ponies, goats, a kangaroo and greyhounds in the Thursday morning

Ford expands Takata airbag recall to 816,000 vehicles

Yahoo Autos 

US auto giant Ford Motor Company said Thursday it was expanding its safety recall of some defective airbag inflators from Japanese parts maker Takata. The action extends the recall to about 816,000 Ford, Lincoln and Mercury brand vehicles built in North America and sold in the United States and Canada for various model years between 2005 and 2012. Takata, which has 20 percent of the global market for seatbelts and airbags, has been ensnared since 2013 in a scandal over airbags blamed for exploding with deadly force... Читать дальше...

Christianity, Not Islam, World's Most Persecuted Religion - EU Report

Sputnik International 

Christians are the "most harassed and intimidated" religious group in the world, being routinely persecuted for their beliefs, a European Parliament report has found – a judgement seemingly at odds with high and rising levels of Islamophobia documented in Europe over 2016.

Rutte naar World Economic Forum in Davos

Tubantia 

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Een flinke kabinetsdelegatie reist volgende week af naar het exclusieve World Economic Forum in Davos. In de Zwitserse plaats komen elk jaar ongeveer 2000 mensen uit de internationale politiek, bedrijfsleven en wetenschap bijeen om te praten over de grote sociale en economische problemen van de wereld.

Amazon plant ruim 100.000 extra banen in VS

Tubantia 

SEATTLE (ANP) - Amazon wil in de komende anderhalf jaar meer dan 100.000 banen creëren in de Verenigde Staten. De webwinkelgigant denkt de extra mankracht nodig te hebben om verdere groei mogelijk te maken. Dat werd donderdag bekendgemaakt.

Jazz: MIND the music

The Jerusalem Post 

The Turkish jazz trio will perform in Jerusalem.





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