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Uber ‘flaunted the law’ for years, say experts. Now the tech giant is paying the price and faces more pressure to ‘clean up its act’

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When Uber burst into the Australian market more than a decade ago, it came with all guns blazing.
It has been described as a “cowboy” company, which created a Wild West, muscling competitors out of the market by operating largely unregulate…

What economists have learnt from the post-pandemic business cycle

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Science advances one funeral at a time, to paraphrase Max Planck. The Nobel prize-winning physicist was arguing that new ideas in his field would only catch on once the advocates of older ones died off.…
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Taiwan’s Tough Call on How to Stop China: Bigger Weapons or Lots of Cheap Ones

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TAIPEI—David shouldn’t rely too much on slingshots to repel Goliath. He’ll need plenty of tanks and jet fighters too.
That is the takeaway for defense officials and scholars in Taiwan from the latest developments in Ukraine, where Kyiv has struggled to…

China Faces New Sea Dispute With Another Neighbor

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Vietnam has called on China to abide by maritime law after Beijing declared earlier this month that it was expanding its territorial claims with a new baseline in the South China Sea’s Gulf of Tonkin.…
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Joe Biden has just dealt a big defeat to big tech

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Last year, Joe Biden’s administration infuriated lobbyists representing big tech firms and others that profit from our personal data by denouncing a proposal that would have gutted domestic data privacy, online civil rights and liberties, and competiti…

­How Canada can better combat Uyghur forced labour

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Preston Lim is an assistant professor at Charles Widger School of Law at Villanova University. Originally from Vancouver, he is called to the bar in Ontario and New York.
Canada is failing in its fight against Uyghur forced labour – and our allies have…

China congratulates Putin after landslide win in fraught elections

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First, those long years of pain which flooded every moment — school, relationships, work.
And then — after agonizing treatments — what felt like the miracle of life after sickle cell disease (SCD).…
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Putin Warns of ‘Full-Scale World War III’ in Victory Speech

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Vladimir Putin has spoken of the prospect of a full-scale conflict between Moscow and NATO that would lead to a “full-scale Third World War,” after he claimed victory in an election condemned by the West as neither free nor fair.…
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Beijing Responds to Trump’s Covert CIA Operation Targeting China

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China’s foreign ministry has accused the U.S. of “spreading rumors” in response to a recent revelation about former President Donald Trump authorizing a covert influence operation targeting Beijing.
“Concocting and spreading rum…

How China Is Tackling a Population Crisis

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For decades, China has tried to rein in its population growth, forcing families to have one child only—a controversial measure that caused terrible suffering to many. Now, as it faces a growing population decline, Beijing is trying to reverse what appe…