Over recent years, the emerging market (EM) equity asset class has seemed to reach a turning point on more than one occasion, only for hopes to be dashed. However, we believe risk is priced in and ...

China’s world-beating equity rally lost momentum after a key briefing expected to unveil economic stimulus measures underwhelmed investors. Hong Kong shares plunged and the yen gained.

China said it’s confident in reaching its economic targets this year and promised to further support growth, although it held back in unleashing more major stimulus in a disappointment to investors ...

It is Covid lockdown and cigarette sales are banned. You manage to sneak huge volumes of cigarettes into South Africa nonetheless, or perhaps you keep manufacturing them here and pinkie-swear they are ...

Russian forces have entered the outskirts of the eastern Ukraine frontline city of Toretsk, Ukraine's military said late on Monday, less than a week after the fall of the nearby bastion town of ...

Maverick braved bureaucratic frostbite to read the Antarctic Treaty’s 112,000-word annual meeting report, uncovering a code that only diplomats may be able to crack. Apparently, in Antarctica, one can ...

Russian shelling killed one person and wounded six others in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, a town near the front line of the 2½-year-old war that Russia’s military hopes to capture.

Reports this week that Police Minister Senzo Mchunu is engaging with the private security industry to find a way it can work with and augment the SA Police Service suggest a major shift in the fight ...

A community policing forum patrol in an Eastern Cape village was ambushed by gunmen on Sunday, days after the Civilian Directorate of the SA Police Service held a ‘roadshow’ in the village.

Paul Hoffman SC is a director of Accountability Now. Because it poses an existential threat to the country, corruption must be treated as much more than a form or type of crime that can be countered ...

Can the government of national unity reconcile its members’ competing interests and achieve a pragmatic, unified approach?

Alphabet Inc. must lift restrictions that prevent developers from setting up rival marketplaces that compete with its Google Play Store, a judge ruled, upending the search giant’s dominance in the ...