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In rural China, an extraordinary story of persistence and courage unfolded when farmer Wang Enlin and his neighbors decided to confront a powerful state-owned chemical company over pollution. For sixteen years, Wang, who had only three years of formal education, studied law on his own to prepare for the legal battle. The company, Qihua Group, h...
Payment giant PayPal recently found itself at the center of an unexpected storm. At the end of August and the beginning of September, Europe experienced a disruption with massive financial consequences. It wasn’t a hacker attack or cyber sabotage – the cause was a human mistake and a misconfigured internal process. Yet the outcome looked dramati...
When we pull out our phones and scan a QR code today, few people realize that behind this simple black-and-white image is a modest Japanese engineer. In 1994, while playing the strategy game Go, Masahiro Hara came up with an idea that changed not only industrial production, but later also the everyday lives of millions of people. His employer...
Trump is pushing the Fed to make money cheaper. But clams may make life more expensive for Americans
Donald Trump's trade policies, especially the imposition of tariffs, will weigh on US consumers in the long run, according to most members of the US Federal Reserve (Fed). These developments may affect the Fed's stance on interest rate changes. Their decisions will also affect foreign investors, including Czech ones, who have money in the US mar...
Dementia is one of the most serious neurodegenerative diseases, affecting millions of people worldwide. Although it is most commonly encountered in the elderly, it is also increasingly found in people under the age of 65, which experts refer to as early onset dementia. This disease causes a gradual decline in cognitive function, including mem...
The amount of sea ice on Earth has reached record lows, as confirmed by the latest satellite measurements since 1978. This decline is the result of a long-term loss of ice in the Arctic, compounded by an unexpected and not yet fully understood loss in Antarctica. Why is sea ice crucial? Sea ice is an important indicator of climate change a...
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski warned that if billionaire Elon Musk decided to shut down Starlink's service to Ukraine, Poland would be forced to look for another provider. Warsaw currently finances the operation of the satellite network on Ukrainian territory, at an annual cost of around $50 million (more than CZK 1.15 billion). Siko...
US President Donald Trump has described the results of Sunday's parliamentary elections in Germany as an important moment for the country and for world politics. On his social network Truth Social, he highlighted the victory of the conservative CDU/CSU union and the strong position of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), which he said reflected...
Apple Inc., the global technology giant, faced an unusual challenge in 2010. It planned to build a new data center in Maiden, North Carolina, a key facility for its cloud services and data infrastructure. To complete the project, however, it needed to acquire land owned by Donnie and Kathy Fulbright. The couple had lived on the site for more tha...
