A wild, swampy and inhospitable island until two hundred years ago, Singapore is now a place where glass and concrete skyscrapers coexist with alleys teeming with rickshaws. It is the planet’s economic capital, futuristic par excellence, the one that boasts the most records for design, efficiency,
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Shein. Not a household name for anyone over 30. During the pandemic, his low profile, his being shrouded in mystery, made him the most popular global ultra-fast fashion retailer[1], deified by teenagers squeezed by the economic crisis. In the space of a couple of years, Shein has
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A little over a hundred years ago, the idea of mass-produced automobiles seemed unthinkable, and yet it happened: but scientific and industrial progress continues to accelerate, and today we are already facing a new prospect: the self-driving car. A self-driving car (autonomous vehicle, self-driving car, robot car)
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We often hear about global warming, the greenhouse effect, rising seas, without giving due weight to these phenomena. Living in the part of the world that depends on the whims of the fossil fuel magnates, we rejoice in recent months if man-made climate change causes longer summers
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Taiwan is a nation in the balance. Much more so than the state of Israel ever was. Since the international agreement for its independence (1948) [1], the island of Formosa has always looked fearfully across the channel, dreading the day when Chinese armies would annihilate Taiwanese democracy.
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CH The need to improve the planet’s logistics networks continues to grow, especially with the increasing uncertainty over peace and the availability of energy and mineral resources. Especially on African soil, which offers the greatest possibilities and is the most backward, a real race has broken out
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There are four or six of them in camouflage overalls. They have waited perhaps for hours, in a van parked on a street corner, to see a girl with her veil out of place. They get out of the vehicle like rabid dogs, armed with sticks, and
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In the West, we believe in an efficient, orderly, innovative, welcoming, open Japan, the child of a tradition based on a strict code of honour and a genuine spirit of service – the creators of the corporate identity concept. Well, this picture of a country of hard-working,
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The tale tells of a French historian, Pierre de Coubertin, who at the age of just 30 organised, in the name of amateurism and universal peace, the first Olympic Games in modern history, in the capital of the same Greece that had invented the Olympics over two
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Since 2017, the Chinese government, on the orders of Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, has created a state programme to imprison, torture, kill and recondition up to 3 million Muslims, of Turkish origin, who have been living in the Xinjiang Uyghur province for generations: the programme,
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