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The Birthing Business

The 麻豆社鈥檚 Mariko Oi explores the global costs of childbirth

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Greek Battle Lines Drawn

Greek Ministers give Brussels a plan to redraft the bailout. It says no deal, thanks.

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Can CleanTech Solve The Power Conundrum?

We examine the technological solutions to achieving a clean and universal power supply.

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Should Business Keep it in the Family?

Family businesses make up 30% of big firms. Is that a good thing or a nepotistic curse?

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Three Days to Save the Euro?

Europe's ministers give Greece till Friday to accept a bailout extension, or else

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Elements: Nickel (& Rhenium)

The story of nickel - the metal that made the jet age possible.

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Ebola: Doing Business Amid A National Crisis

The company that grew its business in Sierra Leone despite the ebola epidemic

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Office Life Today: Too Many Jobs, Not Enough Work?

Office life in the 21st century: Is it a case of too many jobs for not enough work?

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Greece & Eurozone: Another Deadline

Greece & Eurozone: Are we close to a solution or back to kicking the can down the road?

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Stopping Asia's Appetite for Animal Parts

The illicit trade in animal parts. What should China, the main importer, be doing?

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Elements: Chromium

The metal that links Harley Davidsons, leather jackets and flick-knives.

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Surviving US Rate Hikes & the End of QE

How will markets and the economy weather rising interest rates and the end of QE?

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Money and the Human Psyche

Does money make us happy? Does it even motivate us? Or does it turn us into sociopaths?

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Samsung Mobile Technology

As Samsung unveils its new Galaxy S6, what does it take to compete in the mobile market?

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Breaking into China

What does it take for a foreign business to break into China?

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Elements: Fluorine

A ferocious gas and building block for CFCs and other gases that have endangered mankind

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China's Slowing Economy

China forecasts an economic growth rate of 7% this year - what is slowing it down?

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Sexism in Silicon Valley

Can women 'make it happen' in the technology sector?

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ECB's Quantitative Easing adventure.

The ECB launches its QE programme, some 6 years after Britain and the US launched theirs.

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Future Tech and Future Man at Work

From a 3D printed house to trains in a vacuum tube, how future tech will transform work

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Elements: Technetium

Essential for medical imaging, supplies of manmade element Technetium are not guaranteed

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A Dollar for Your Euro?

Why the euro is falling and what it means for the eurozone

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Financing Formula 1

Motor car racing is an expensive sport, so how do F1 teams like Williams make ends meet?

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Hidden International Financial Flows?

Do the UK's trade data contain hidden evidence of dirty money flowing out of Russia?

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Brazil Economy: The Perfect Storm?

Protests against Brazil's government as the economy runs into trouble

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Elements: Iron and the Industrial Revolution

Two moments in history that transformed iron into the key material of modern life

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Fed Patience and the US Dollar

The greenback drops as Janet Yellen hints patience with its strength is wearing thin

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Winter World Cup 2022

Has Qatar done enough to improve migrant workers' conditions on World Cup building sites?

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Lee Kwan Yew: Singapore's Founding Father dies

Was Lee Kwan Yew an economic visionary or a controlling autocrat - or both?

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Greece, Fruit Juice and Bras

The latest eurozone talks, small businesses in Kosovo and a rather large lingerie empire

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