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Faulty door-plugs open old wounds at Boeing

NERVOUS TRAVELLERS will break out in a cold sweat seeing pictures of a gaping hole in the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9, blown out at 15,000 feet (4,600...

Europe at last has an answer to Silicon Valley

TEN TIMES a second an object shaped like a thick pizza box and holding a silicon wafer takes off three times faster than a manned rocket. For a few milliseconds it moves...

Does Europe at last have an answer to Silicon Valley?

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.TEN TIMES a second an object shaped like a thick pizza box and...

The Communist Party wants (a bit) less consumer internet

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.INVESTORS IN CHINESE tech stocks might feel like characters in an online “party...

Can Sino-Arabian business ties replace Sino-American ones?

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.WHEN CHINESE and Middle Eastern moneymen meet, it is usually behind closed doors....

Meet ACWA Power, Saudi Arabia’s unlikely solar star

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.SITTING ATOP a fifth of the world’s oil reserves, Saudi Arabia doesn’t spring...

Meet the shrewdest operators in today’s oil markets

Almost a decade ago, a price war broke out between petrostates in the Persian Gulf and the frackers in America, whose innovative drilling techniques gave rise to the shale revolution. In December...

A new-year message from the CEO

Dear friends and colleagues,Happy New Year! This time last year, for the ninth year in a row, I warned you that there had never been a more uncertain outlook for our business....

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