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Chasing 'sovereignty partnerships'
Oped, Marc Abensour, Published on 04/06/2025
» In 2018, French President Emmanuel Macron laid the foundations for France's strategy for the Indo-Pacific, a region that is becoming the new centre of gravity of the global economy but is also experiencing growing tensions and increased competition between major powers. As a resident nation in both the Indian and Pacific Oceans through its overseas territories and communities, France has a direct stake in the region's stability and development. In this context, France wants to act as a stabilising force and to promote effective multilateralism based on the rule of law, inclusivity and respect for sovereignty.
The sea changes that are upending advertising
Business, Marc Brodherson, Published on 02/03/2024
» Advertising is an amazing industry. It's worth about a trillion dollars globally, growth exceeds GDP, and it is either the primary business model or one of the fastest-growing ones for at least five of the top 10 companies by global market capitalisation.
Grand old conspiracy theorists
Asia focus, Marc Gallicchio, Published on 14/09/2020
» In the summer of 1945, the Allied policy of demanding unconditional surrender in World War II became the subject of intense debate in the United States. In a way, it has remained so ever since, tracking with Americans' changing attitudes about the Cold War and post-Cold War interventions.
Leishman: Why I lied to my ailing wife
Sports, Marc Leishman, Published on 27/07/2020
» It feels like it's been longer than five years, as so much has happened since 2015. Sometimes it feels like it happened only a year ago. It's still vivid in my mind.
Asian retailers face 'new normal'
Oped, Charles Ormiston, Marc-André Kamel, Derek Keswakaroon & Gwendolyn Lim, Published on 13/05/2020
» Grocery retailers in the world learned from Asia's early experience confronting Covid-19. Now, Asian executive teams are at the forefront of the retail sector's next challenge -- to accelerate into the recovery.
Rising seas mean deltas need more sand and mud
News, Marc Goichot, Published on 22/10/2019
» Doubtless it sounds crazy to anyone who has watched a sandcastle crumble as the tide washes in but the key to stopping the world's densely populated deltas from sinking beneath the waves is sand. Or rather sediment: the combination of gravel, sand, silt and clay that large rivers carry down to the sea and deposit on deltas. Sediment that constantly and naturally replenishes deltas, keeping them -- and all the people, fields, industries, cities and wildlife that rely on them -- above the water.