Get richer, die younger: study
08 Oct 2013 Paris (AFP) We all live longer when times are good, right? Not so, according to a new study which says that in developed countries, the elderly have…
Lies, damn lies, and China’s economic statistics
15 Aug 2013 BEIJING (AFP) China has soared almost to the top of the world's economic league tables, but whether the official data underpinning its status can be trusted is…
China: 700 mountains to be levelled to make way for new town
Saturday, 08 December 2012 Chinese developers are planning to flatten 700 mountains to make way for a new town in the north-west of the country. The nation's most ambitious "mountain…
Germany displaces China as US Treasury’s currency villain
The US Treasury has issued a damning criticism of Germany’s chronic trade surplus in its annual report on worldwide exchange rate abuse, although it stopped short of labelling the country…
Greek death spiral raises heat for German-bloc creditors: Public debt will reach 189pc of GDP
Greece’s debt-load is rising much faster than expected as the country spirals into a sixth year of depression, ratcheting up the pressure on Germany and Europe’s creditor states to accept…
Unemployed young cost Europe €153bln a year
Published: 22 October, 2012, 15:57 Edited: 22 October, 2012, 15:57 As many as 14 million young unemployed Europeans cost the region’s economy about 153 billion euro a year or 1.2%…
If Germany were to leave the euro, it would be better off
Another week, another conference about the euro. This time it was in Singapore. Nevertheless, it was Germany that was uppermost in my mind, not least because several Singaporeans asked me…
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