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While online dating platforms have started to embrace open and all-encompassing expressions of oneself, in terms of sexuality, gender, race and beyond, do they also walk the talk when it comes to their internal culture?

6 Aug 2021

pop up cycle paths in Paris

Far from rendering cities obsolete, the pandemic has unlocked an ever-broader potential for renaissance – what the economist Joseph Schumpeter famously called 'creative destruction' on an urban scale.

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In 2021, the Doomsday Clock will remain at just 100 seconds to midnight, indicating an alarmingly high level of existential risk to humanity. The pandemic showed that we cannot take stability and competent governance for granted.

RCEP: What's in it for Asia and the Pacific?

The signing on 15 November 2020 of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Agreement concluded 8 years of negotiations among members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Australia, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Japan, the Republic of Korea (ROK), and New Zealand.

27 July 2020

Bangui wind farm in the Philippines

4 June 2020

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14 May 2020

farmers in Bangladesh

11 May 2020

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9 April 2020

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1 April 2020

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17 March 2020

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11 March 2020

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5 March 2020

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14 February 2020

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13 December 2019

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