TR EMERITUS

In 2001, Naspers, a South African publisher (It published the ST for the apartheid regime) bought a stake in a lossmaking Chinese start-up in the wake of the dotcom bust for US$32m. This week it sold more than US$10bn of its shares in Tencent, the Chinese technology group, a sliver (2%age points) of a stake worth US$167bn which... 

I read and follow with much apprehension, Just how did Xi and Putin put strongman politics back on the map? the "reelection" and usurping of power from the commoners of these 2 Communist leaders in the name of the national good which we all know, is far from true! Though we are not citizens of these autocratic countries, we... 

Last night the share price of Facebook (FB) dropped by almost 5% on the back of revelations uncovered in secret  filming by  the UK’s Channel 4 into the practices of Cambridge Analytica (CA). Mark Zuckerberg has gone into hiding and the chief security officer has resigned. Yesterday it was discovered that a Facebook team...