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If the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is to translate into real commercial activity, this financial architecture has to grow with it.

East Africa trade soars to $38bn in second quarter, narrowing deficit

The increase was largely driven by exports, which surged 40.5% to $18.6 billion, reflecting rising global demand

Developing countries that are the most vulnerable to climate change are angry about a new text released at COP29 on Friday, which says developed countries must pay $250 billion a year until 2035 for climate action.(Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

SA companies should focus on meeting the requirements for a ‘green economy’

The public and civil society taking action to ensure compliance with environmental sustainability local and international laws and treaties is likely to gather momentum

Residential buildings under construction at the Tao Yuan Tian Jing project, developed by China Evergrande Group, right, and at the Wangjiang Mansion project, developed by Country Garden Holdings Co., in Yangzhou, China, on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. Country Garden has avoided a default with last-minute bond interest payments, buying what was once the country’s biggest developer by sales a reprieve  if only a brief one. Source: Bloomberg

China’s Evergrande resumes Hong Kong trading

The property giant estimated it had debts of $328 billion at the end of June

Beleaguered property giant China Evergrande suspended trading of its shares in Hong Kong on Thursday, according to notices posted by the bourse, as the debt-ridden company grapples with severe financial difficulties. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

China’s Evergrande Group halts trading in Hong Kong

It is also just a month since the firm resumed trading following a 17-month halt caused by its failure to publish its financial results

The president’s speech at the Communist Party of China’s congress was vague on the issue of Taiwan as the party paves the way for his third term.

China: Xi Jinping’s speech short on detail, big on pride

The president’s speech at the Communist Party of China’s congress was vague on the issue of Taiwan as the party paves the way for his third term

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OPINION | New UK work visa to exclude graduates from Africa

If graduates did not get their qualifications from the list of top 50 universities, 40 of which are in the US, France, China, Hong Kong, Australia, Germany, Canada and Japan,…

The real challenge for China is facing up to its own modernity: How does it become the sort of society that is consistent with its rapidly modernising economy without major, chaotic social upheaval? (Jorge Silva/Reuters)

Hong Kong police raid local media outlet, arrest six for ‘seditious publication’

Hong Kong has long served as a regional media hub, though it has tumbled down press freedom rankings in recent years as Beijing asserts greater control over the city.

Campaigner: A young Peter Hain addresses an anti-apartheid meeting in London. (Photo by Watford/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)

Global players enabled ‘Zupta’ corruption

The Zupta decade: Governments and global corporates, banks and consultants must stop enabling money laundering

LIANJIANG, CHINA – JUNE 09: Aerial view of an abalone aquaculture farm on June 9, 2020 in Lianjiang County, Fujian Province of China. (Photo by Tan Ailong/VCG via Getty Images)

Covid-19 stems ‘white’ gold rush

The pandemic hit abalone farmers fast and hard. Prices have dropped and backers appear to be losing their appetite for investing in the delicacy

A woman walks past an edition of the South China Morning Post carrying the story of former US spy Edward Snowden on its front page in Hong Kong on June 13.

‘Killing the chicken to scare the monkey’: what Jimmy Lai’s arrest means for Hong Kong’s independent media

Although self-censorship has long been a concern, Hong Kong has traditionally enjoyed a vibrant free press

This pandemic will test our sanity. To maintain mental well-being we must allow ourselves to speak into our fears. It is okay to not be okay.
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The ethics of Covid-19 status disclosure: To tell or not to tell?

The trick is to find the balance between people’s right to privacy and the need for contact tracing to limit the spread of the disease

Stuck at home with no visitors and not much else to do, a pair of pandas in Hong Kong finally decided to give mating a go after a decade of dodging the issue.

Pandas mate in lockdown privacy

Stuck at home with no visitors and not much else to do, a pair of pandas in Hong Kong finally decided to give mating a go after a decade of dodging the issue

Previous instruction notes issued by the treasury regarding the procurement of PPE did not make provision for accounting officers’ solutions to prevent the misuse of funds. (Paul Botes/M&G)
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Covid-19: A case for why we all should wear homemade face masks

Countries that have mandated mask-wearing for people going out in public have shown a decrease in the rate of Covid-19 infections

Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) has made strides in embedding environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles into its core operations, positioning itself as a leader in sustainable airport management on the African continent.  (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

South Africa’s travel ban commences

The travel restrictions will allow South Africa to turn back passengers arriving from areas affected by Covid-19 that are deemed high risk

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Indonesia seizes half-a-million masks amid coronavirus panic buying

Authorities were questioning two people after a raid at a warehouse in satellite city Tangerang, where nearly 600 000 surgical masks were found

Passengers are seen on the balconies of the Diamond Princess cruise ship, with around 3 600 people quarantined onboard due to fears of the new coronavirus, at the Daikaku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama port on February 12, 2020. (Behrouz Mehri/AFP)

Two South Africans infected on coronavirus-hit Japanese cruise ship

Government was alerted that 12 South Africans were among the crew members on board the ship only at the end of their quarantine

Virus fever: The coronavirus has killed over 2000 people in China and the world has been put on high alert, with confirmed cases reported in over 20 other countries. (Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)

WHO urges calm as China coronavirus death toll reaches 2000

More than 74 000 people have now been infected by the virus in China, with hundreds more cases in some 25 countries

With inequality framed as a key trigger for the worldwide unrest comes the circulation of literature breaking down the disparities between rich and poor — in Chile and Lebanon, they are frighteningly high.  (Reuters/Carlos Eduardo Ramirez)

Where will neoliberalism end?

LONG READ As the world was overtaken by upheaval last year, one photo emerging from the uprisings depicts a protestor bearing a promise: “Neoliberalism was born in Chile and will…

It is true that in the African continent, ethnicity is a dreaded term because of the continent’s experience with ethnicity- or tribe-based inter-group animosities and conflicts that, in some countries, morphed into genocides.
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Southern African countries ‘struggling’ to protect human rights, says HRW

Rights group calls for South Africa to show stronger leadership

Infection rates in China keep growing. It may be more dangerous to keep us here. Most countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East (including North Africa) evacuated their citizens and students when there were fewer than 1 000 recorded cases.

China believes new virus behind mystery pneumonia outbreak

China believes a mysterious pneumonia outbreak that struck 59 people is caused by a new strain of virus from the same family as SARS