The world this week 本周国际要闻 Business 经济 Saudi Arabia said it would cut oil production by another 1m barrels a day from next month, furthering its effort to shore up oil prices. Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates swiftly followed with...
In response, authorities are adjusting their tracing methods. They are now offering free and anonymous testing for anybody who went near the affected areas in late April and early May. In a break with previous practice, they are seeking to reassure p...
Shockingly, a wife who believed I was not myself, myself in her everyday dutifulness felt herself remade when her husband, coming home tight, split her lip and knuckled her neck to its proper angle; and was grateful for his remodelling. Yet the all-t...
These Astorians comprise not only fairly conventional male Jewish shopkeepers with dreams of a racier existence, but some gay and black confederates. A series of escapades, charmingly told if loosely connected, depict Benny and his matesamong them Ma...
Business 商业版块 Austerity in Silicon Valley 硅谷的紧缩政策 The next garage 下一个车库 The crisis has hit techs spiritual home hard, but it is already planning ahead 这场危机严重打击了科技公司的精神家园，但是它已...
Books arts 文艺板块 Book review 书评 British fiction 英国小说 Down to Brixton 去布里克斯顿 Pomeranski. By Gerald Jacobs. 波美兰斯基。作者：杰拉尔德雅各布斯 Vincent Van Gogh once lived in Brixton, where the fledgling a...
But once she was married and the mother of two small daughters, happy if she could jot down just one line or one image, that was not her life. Her days now revolved round cooking, washing up, nappies, feeds; lifting the kettle to the gas stove, setti...
Asia 亚洲板块 Covid-19 in South Korea 韩国的新冠肺炎 A catchy beat 一次记忆深刻的打击 A cluster of infections at nightclubs mars the relaxation of restrictions 夜店出现的一系列感染事件破坏了限制的放宽举措。...
India's government said it would spend $266bn (10% of GDP) on stimulus measures to diminish the economic damage done by its COVID-19 lockdown. Around 120m Indians have lost their jobs over the past two months. 印度政府表示，将投入2660亿美元...
A paper by researchers at Oxford University, published on May 14th, finds that nearly one in five of those working in essential care-related occupations are immigrants. In all, a little more than half of EU migrants now classed as key workers would n...
The world this week 本周国际要闻 Politics 政治 Boris Johnson, Britain's prime minister, set out a path for easing lockdown in England. His message has changed from stay at home to stay alert. Restrictions will be eased in phases, depending on...
Dr Walsh and a group of colleagues at Thomas Jefferson University, in Philadelphia, and at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Walsh博士、费城托马斯杰斐逊大学以及拉斐特的路易斯安那大学的同行估计 estimate that Ebola...
Late in 1990, when Paul Kagame was hiding on the Congolese side of the Virunga Mountains preparing to invade Rwanda, 1990年末，当时保罗卡加梅藏身刚果境内的维龙加山脉，准备入侵卢旺达， his army, the Rwandan Patriotic Fro...
Eavan Boland, poet, died on April 27th, aged 75 诗人伊万博兰德于4月27日去世，享年75岁。 When summernights were warm, Eavan Boland liked to stand in the front doorway of her small suburban house in Dun- drum, outside Dublin. She would...
That perception stems in part from Antas customer base. Its shops are concentrated in medium-sized cities, to cater to consumers that are less well off than those in Beijing or Shanghai, the preferred haunts of Nike and Adidas. A pair of Anta shoes t...
