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Solar energy even on cloudy days.

Good News

Solar energy despite clouds, and days off during menstruation

The two pieces of good news this month are about harnessing solar energy even on cloudy days and additional two paid days off for female employees experiencing menstrual pain.

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Protest against a coal plant that Kenya wants to build with funding from China in the port city of Lamu.

Fossil fuel industry

China continues to finance coal power around the world

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by Nora Sausmikat
by Quirin Jetschke
The one-child family was the norm in China for decades: a family in Wuhan in 2006.

Retirement provisions

From the iron rice bowl to the filial piety law

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by Felix Lee
Examining a patient in Assam.

Tuberculosis

Never disrupt treatment

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by Roli Mahajan
Hotels in Mauritius are negatively affected by the absence of tourists from China. Beach in Belle Mare on the east coast.

Blog

Coronavirus hurts Mauritius though no-one is infected so far

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by Katja Dombrowski
Nairobi Terminus: China is financing major infrastructure projects in many developing countries.

Global affairs

Pecking order of nations

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by Doris Fischer
by Hans Dembowski
Who is the role model? Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing in December 2018.

Blog

Xi Jinping is weaker than many observers believe

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by Hans Dembowski
“Tank man” in Beijing in 1989: western media under-estimate the extent to which China opened up under authoritarian rule.

Blog

Sudan is not China

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by Hans Dembowski
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi with China’s President Xi Jinping in Wuhan last year

Emerging markets

Allied rivals

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by Praveen Jha
Ecuador is struggling to service Chinese loans: President Lenín Moreno with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing in December 2018.

Aid

Limits of sovereignty

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by Hans Dembowski

In human history, opium was always an important commodity

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by Hans Dembowski