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AS HE TELLS the story, Chandrababu Naidu smiles. On becoming chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, a state on India’s east coast, in 1995, he saw “IT was the future” and headed to America. Initially Bill Gates refused to meet him, but Mr Naidu...
THIS TIME it is the cabbages that Chinese shoppers are avoiding. On August 22nd a blogger posted videos of truckers in Kangbao, a county a few hours’ drive from Beijing, dipping the vegetables in formaldehyde. The chemical keeps their pale...
IT WAS A typically Trumpian announcement. On August 28th the American president announced what he called “THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY”, an agreement he said would give America “majority control” of more than 65bn barrels of...
O NTWO SETS of posters plastered across Kampala, Uganda’s capital, two men loom large. One is a paunchy figure with a wide-brimmed hat and a jaundiced stare. The other is younger and brasher-looking in military fatigues. The first is Yoweri...
