Chinese superstar Jin Xing hosts a TV chat and talent show, which is watched by an estimated 100 million people every week. Before that, she had an international career as one of China’s ...
After a tumultuous 2016 that many people were only too happy to see the end of, one would expect people to be welcoming the new year with open arms. But the world seemed to become a gloom...
Despite a proliferation of cases recently of people fighting to keep their homes or neighbourhoods off Google Street View, the Faroe Islands face the opposite problem: how do you put your...
The value of trees and plants in the urban environment is well documented: they improve air quality, shade against heat and provide an antidote to congestion, traffic and the pace of city...
Is the country you live in on the right track?
Watch the Squeezed and Angry: How to Fix the Middle-Class Crisis session from the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2017 here.
Whether you look at the first Industrial Revolution or the fourth – the 21st century’s own technology-led transformation – automation has always been regarded with trepidation.
Watch the Global Security Outlook session from the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2017 here.
We're in the midst of a technology revolution, but which gadgets will dominate our lives? One of the best crystal balls we have is the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas....
On the 27th June 1967, a British TV star, Reg Varney, became the first person in the world to use a cash machine at a branch of Barclays bank in London.
透过2016年世界经济论坛发布的各类报告，让我们一起回顾风云激荡、发生了让人难以预料变革的2016年吧。
The world’s education systems are failing our children by not preparing them for the workplace of the future. This is the key finding of a new report by the World Economic Forum, Realizin...
Morocco, the host of the 2016 UN Climate Change Conference (COP22), has begun a push to make its mosques more energy efficient.
As a year of exceptional and often unexpected change comes to an end, we look back at the state of the world in 2016 through the lens of our reports.
It’s supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year, but it’s also one of the costliest times: Christmas.
