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Investment: This is how investors could benefit from the current wave of insolvencies

The number of bankruptcies is increasing in Germany. Here you can find out how private equity companies take advantage of such situations and when their shares enrich your portfolio.

What is it, where can it be found?: Rescue card: A piece of paper that can save a life

Modern cars are designed to provide occupants with the best possible protection. If something does happen, that can be a problem for rescue workers. A card can make the difference here.

Education: How Germany's schools are getting out of the crisis

While students in Estonia learn with tailor-made AI, Germany argues about notebooks or tablets. Why other countries are educational champions – and what can be learned from them.

Reforms and poverty: Millions in need of money - How do the reforms work?

Many people are already unable to pay their bills for electricity, heating or a new refrigerator. How do the government's reform plans affect the increasing risks of poverty in Germany?

Youth labor protection: Holiday jobs for students: This is allowed

Finally improve your pocket money: What are students under the age of 18 allowed to do and what restrictions are there? A Guide to Fruitful Vacations.

Labor market: This is the only sector in which young professionals are still in demand

The job market for academics is cooling down - especially for career starters. One area alone currently offers good prospects.

Innovation: How Ukraine is becoming Europe's leading tech nation

In the war against the all-powerful Russia, technology is the underdog's weapon. At the same time, Ukraine is pushing ahead with a digital transformation that is even impressing Silicon Valley.

Regulation: Working with almost no rules – How innovations become successful with special permission

Technologies are there – and yet many things remain in the experimental stage. Real-world laboratories are supposed to change that. Baden-Württemberg particularly relies on the concept. Can innovation be achieved faster this way?

China-UK ties thaw: Wang Yi urges that they ‘further communicate and align our positions’

China and Britain have pledged to enhance high-level exchanges and deepen cooperation amid a turbulent global landscape, following a meeting of their top diplomats in Beijing. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told visiting British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper on Tuesday that their countries needed to further communicate and align their positions. “We need to … anchor ourselves to the positioning of a long-term and stable China-UK comprehensive strategic partnership, strengthen high-level...

China’s Tiger Brokers reports strong results, with no mention of trading crackdown

Tiger Brokers reported a 17.5 per cent year-on-year jump in first-quarter operating profit in an announcement on Tuesday, without any mention of the looming punishment from China’s securities regulator over alleged unlicensed cross-border trading services. Tiger Brokers said its operating profit rose to US$47.6 million in the three months ended March 31, while revenue climbed 26.3 per cent from a year earlier to US$154.9 million. The growth was driven by a 536 per cent surge in Hong Kong trading

Carl Benedikt Frey: “Trump is endangering American technological leadership”

The Oxford economist explains why AI redistributes the opportunities and risks in international competition. He believes the European AI narrative is far too negative.

Economic conference: Merz warns against pessimism: “No reason for pessimism”

The mood, especially in the German economy, is bad. Chancellor Merz wants to spread a spirit of optimism. He sees the East as a key region.

Interview: “We are still too well to really wake up”

The Germans are paralyzed by the many crises, but they have to change. This often only happens through pain, says neuroscientist Laura Wünsch – and it has to get even bigger.

Interview: Oxford economist: “Europe has real strengths that it systematically underestimates”

Europe is not lost in the AI ​​race against China and the USA, says Paul Collier. He has five suggestions for Germany to catch up in technology competition.

Nuclear energy: “I never thought I would live to see this” – the dream of fusion energy is that realistic

More and more companies around the world are competing to build the first fusion power plant. Germany was in the background for a long time. That could change now.

Artificial intelligence: first announced, then shrunken: corporations question gigafactories and criticize the EU

Deutsche Telekom and Schwarz Group wanted to build a gigafactory for AI together and were relying on billions in funding. But that's not the only thing that should now be significantly smaller.

Hong Kong tribunal rejects request to postpone Wang Fuk Court owners’ meeting

The Lands Tribunal has dismissed a government-appointed administrator’s request to postpone an extraordinary general meeting of owners at Hong Kong’s fire-ravaged Wang Fuk Court, ruling it lacks the authority to do so. Presiding officer Gary Lam Chin-ching on Tuesday urged Hop On Management Company to convene the meeting immediately so it could be held on June 13, in line with the requirements of the Building Management Ordinance. In a written judgment, Lam ruled that the ordinance did not...

India Pushes for a Mediterranean Axis with Cyprus and Greece

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Sweden prepares prisons for 13-year-old gang killers

A surge in gang-related shootings and bombings over the last decade, dozens of which were carried out by minors, has set Sweden apart from its European peers and left authorities an urgent problem: what to do with children who kill. The government, in power since 2022 and heading into a tight election in September where crime is a key issue, says the softly-softly approach of the past has failed and it is time to get ‌tough by sending children aged under 15 to prison rather than into social...

Researchers appeal to Chancellor: “Reform spouse splitting”

An alliance of economists and former constitutional judges is calling on the government to reform spousal splitting. Married couples without children would pay an additional 300 euros a year in the new model - and families would benefit.

Business ticker: Bayer faces a new hurdle in the glyphosate comparison - shares lose six percent

Eurowings only passes on half of the tax cut +++ HP shares shoot up by 36 percent +++ Tesla records strong sales increase in Europe +++ News in the company live blog.

How adversity has guided the path of Chinese civilisation through the ages

Places well-endowed with natural resources don’t usually become great powers or world-conquering empires. If anything, many suffer from the “resource curse”, which corrupts the domestic elite and invites foreign intervention, exploitation or outright colonisation. Like people, communities or nations that have fought to overcome adversity and disadvantages often become the most successful. Challenges – whether natural, geographical, social or military – make them fighters and winners. New...

China Solar Makers Launch Space Energy Development Alliance

China’s solar manufacturing industry on Tuesday launched a so-called Space Energy Development Alliance as the Chinese solar sector looks to conquering new frontiers amid oversupply at home. At this year’s SNEC PV+ conference in Shanghai, one of the biggest solar industry gatherings in the world, Chinese manufacturers launched the platform, but were stingy on details about projects or missions in the race to harness solar power in space. GCL Technology Holdings Ltd, Trina Solar Co, and Shi Zhengr

Polymarket closes its first block trade as prediction markets push for Wall Street adoption

Prediction market platforms have increasingly looked to institutional traders, not individual ones, as the next venue for growth.

Should interest rates rise sharply over the next 10 years?

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How integrated modeling and simulation accelerates Europe’s defensive edge

[Sponsored] Lockheed Martin’s ACES platform delivers a shared virtual battlespace that strengthens readiness, interoperability, and faster decision-making through advanced, integrated modeling and simulation capabilities designed for evolving global threats.

The Fire Was for the Camera. Iran Propaganda Machine

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Indonesia's trade surplus hits lowest level in six years as rupiah slides

Indonesia's GoTo cofounder calls Chromebook graft charges 'illusion' of law

Intel CEO praises 'friend' Nvidia and TSMC despite rising competition