Opinion

China was long a lucrative market for Germany Inc, but the Asian giant's rise in high-tech fields has put the heat on Europe's industrial powerhouse and its companies, big and small.

Britain's 200-year-old canal network was once the backbone of the country's economic transformation during the Industrial Revolution, but is now crumbling, experts say.

Despite the rapidly greying, shrinking population of blademakers in Japan, their fine steel swords known as katana are amassing a new generation of fans, particularly younger women, on the back of pop culture.

Ahead of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address, student bodies are renewing calls to tax the wealthy and big business to fund free education.

US government data shows the unemployment rate still relatively low at 4.4 percent as of December. But the number of people working multiple jobs has risen. The number of women juggling two part-time jobs rose 20 percent year-on-year.