By Pauline Bock and Jasmine Horsey Here are our thoughts at the start of the week as we look at the global news landscape. We offer these reflections in hopes that our readers will send in their comments, suggestions, opinions — and in the best of all worlds,...
This article is part of a News-Decoder series of “decoders” that explain crucial background to big issues. For more decoders, click here. As the most populous country in the world with one of the fastest growing economies, China is projected by many to be...
By Pauline Bock & Jasmine Horsey One of our roles as assistant editors at News-Decoder is to consider emerging themes around the world, to connect the dots between seemingly disparate events. Here are some of our thoughts at the start of the week about events and...
By Jasmine Horsey In the center of Bosnia’s capital Sarajevo, a permanent photo exhibition remembers Srebrenica. The photographs show coffins filling a large warehouse; forensic teams excavating mass graves; a child’s doll in the dust, throat slit. The images, in...
Mainland China has 2 stock markets: Shanghai and Shenzhen. Hong Kong has an independent stock exchange that is not directly linked to the crisis. Chinese stock prices rose some 150% between July 2014 and June 2015, peaking on June 12. Chinese authorities reacted by...