Tag: politics

• Getting political is becoming profitable for influencers in Peru

  April 6, 2021

  “I am rather lucky that brands are all about ‘disruptive’ influencers now. They have embraced my political positions, even if they are controversial,” she tells Rest of World, careful to ironically… more ›

• Is China Really Ready for Black Stories?

  April 3, 2021

  Since hitting Chinese theaters last December, the Oscar-nominated Disney-Pixar film “Soul” has pulled in more than 360 million yuan ($55.4 million) nationwide. https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1006968/is-china-really-ready-for-black-stories more ›

• After slavery

  April 2, 2021

  Processes of historical reinvention tend to accompany moments of great economic and social transformation, such as the one that we’re living through at the moment. They produce a new historical… more ›

• The Future of Offices When Workers Have a Choice

  March 27, 2021

  Some work spaces in central employment districts may become housing, and some housing in residential areas may become work spaces. Coronavirus will not kill the office. If anything, it figures… more ›

• Apple Hosts Apps Run by China Paramilitary Group Accused of Uyghur Genocide

  March 27, 2021

  Apple’s App Store has been distributing more than a dozen apps created by a Chinese organization sanctioned by the U.S. for human rights abuses against Muslim minorities in China’s Xinjiang… more ›

• Call centre staff to be monitored via webcam for home-working ‘infractions’

  March 26, 2021

  Thousands of staff at one of the world’s biggest call centre companies face being monitored by webcams to check whether they are eating, looking at their phones or leaving their… more ›

• Diary of a Myanmar medic: ‘I learned to treat gunshot wounds on YouTube’

  March 26, 2021

  A doctor who provides treatment to protesters wounded by the army and police has described a week in the turmoil of the post-coup Myanmar.When the military coup happened, I joined… more ›

• Portugal must do more to confront colonial past, says Council of Europe

  March 24, 2021

  Europe’s top human rights body has called on Portugal to do more to confront its colonial past and its role in the transatlantic slave trade in order to help fight… more ›

• The remote-working revolution has just begun

  March 21, 2021

  The pandemic has thrown the future of work into flux. This is especially true in tech, an industry notoriously concentrated in several expensive U.S. cities. But as Covid-19 takes a… more ›

• The geopolitical fight to come over green energy

  March 21, 2021

  The struggle for sustainable energy will soon put China, the US and Europe on a geopolitical collision course. But moving away from fossil fuels is a Herculean task, and a… more ›