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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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Top leaders at this year’s G7 summit in Quebec.

Global affairs

Do what you preach

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by Hans Dembowski

China’s aid lending is neither entirely good nor totally bad

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by Hans Dembowski
The ministers of 11 nations celebrate the conclusion of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership in Santiago de Chile in March. The participating countries are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.

Global trade

“I do not know whether the WTO will survive”

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by Iwan J. Azis
by Hans Dembowski
Google search at a Thai internet café.

Asian economies

New cross-border competition policy

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by Yasuyuki Sawada
by Cyn-Young Park
by Hans Dembowski
The protection masks offer are limited, but in China’s smog-engulfed cities – like Shanghai, for example – they have become a regular outdoor accessory.

China

Poisonous air is making us sick

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by Felix Lee
Young men enjoying a bicycle ride on the beach in the low-carbon city of Xiamen in South-West China. China is recently experiencing a bicycle and outdoor activity boom.

SDGs

China’s efforts

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by Berthold M. Kuhn
Berthold M. Kuhn
Stroms are getting worse: typhoon-caused flooding in Hoi An, Vietnam, in November.

Global warming

The case against fossil fuels

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by Shikha Jha
Coal has become increasingly important in India – people near strip mine in Jharkand.

Public budgets

Harmful government expenditure

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by Shikha Jha
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, witness the signing of a memorandum of understanding.

New Silk Road

Clean at home, dirty abroad

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by Katja Dombrowski
Not all relevant essays are available online anymore – an academic library in Suzhou.

Political science

Access denied

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by Jonathan Sullivan