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THE MOST POWERFUL AMG YET
Life, GREG KABLE, Published on 07/07/2025
» Mercedes-AMG has previewed its future electric flagship with the Concept GT XX, a 1,341bhp technical tour de force showcasing a radical design, an advanced new technical layout and a motorsport-inspired cockpit.
Countryman lights JCW fuse
Life, GREG KABLE, Published on 20/11/2023
» Mini is taking renewed aim at the performance SUV ranks with its new and larger John Cooper Works Countryman. Set for UK sale in 2024, it receives an updated version of parent company BMW's turbocharged 2.0-litre four-cylinder petrol engine, which sends a total of 296bhp and 400Nm to both axles through an eight-speed automatic.
The most dangerous time of the month
Greg Beatty, Published on 27/09/2023
» It's the last day of the month. On this Friday, eight motorcycle drivers are waiting at the perimeter of a factory, 60 km from Bangkok. A throng of workers exit the factory. They hand over their ATM cards to the drivers, who know the passwords. Nobody smiles. They speed off, return twenty minutes later, having emptied the accounts for the debts owed with 10% to 30% interest for the month.
Cohesion over possible invasion
News, Greg Torode, Published on 28/10/2022
» Chinese President Xi Jinping's new generals may have been selected for their political loyalty to him, but those ties could serve at least one vital military purpose in any Taiwan invasion plan: ensuring cohesion and decisiveness.
Ukraine crisis threatens China's discreet pipeline in military technology
Greg Torode of Reuters, Published on 03/03/2022
» HONG KONG: Russia's invasion of Ukraine is likely to threaten one of China's most discreet but important strategic relationships in recent years: its use of Ukraine as a source of technology for the expanding Chinese military.
The Doors of Perception: 2022
Greg Beatty, Published on 01/12/2021
» George Orwell said, “To see what is in front of one’s door needs a constant struggle.” Business leaders must continually look beyond the door. What do they see now?
Humanity might have been born to live in cities
Oped, Greg Woolf, Published on 29/04/2021
» The spread of cities over the last 6,000 years is a global phenomenon -- not because cities originated in one place and spread out over the planet, but because people invented cities, out of nothing, so many times.
What's Driving Everything From a Market Frenzy to an Embrace of U.S. Deficits? Magical Thinking
Business, Greg Ip, Published on 01/02/2021
» The Wall Street bulls embracing sky-high stock values and the Washington pols embracing big deficits may be ideological opposites, but they have something important in common. Both draw sustenance from near-zero interest rates which make stocks more valuable and debt more supportable. And both risk taking this basically sound logic to extremes.
Healthcare in Thailand – Where's the potential?
Greg Beatty, Published on 30/12/2020
» Predictions are hard, especially about the future. One year ago, nobody would have believed it would be facemasks that would get us through the current pandemic. But we still need vaccines and technology solutions for a permanent fix.
Covid-19 Propelled Businesses Into the Future. Ready or Not.
Business, Greg Ip, Published on 28/12/2020
» For many who crossed the digital divide this year, there will be no going back.