Articles in English

The Two Best Ways to Reduce Infant Mortality

One of the more ambitious targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the commitment to end preventable deaths of newborns and children over the next decade. If this target is met, by 2030 no country will have a neonatal mortality rate above 12 deaths per 1,000 births – a quarter of the current rate in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa

07 августа 2018 4 мин. 35491

Win This Contest And Spend A Night On The Great Wall Of China

Clearly in the category of “when you’ve done everything else…” Airbnb is kicking off a contest in which four winners get to spend a night on the Great Wall of China—not a hotel or apartment overlooking the Great Wall but the historic wall itself

06 августа 2018 2 мин. 9522

Tesla Vows Sustainable Profitability As Quarterly Loss Blows Past Expectations

Eight years into life as a public company Tesla remains every bit as volatile as it’s ever been, concluding an unusually woolly quarter with a loss per share that was worse than analysts expected, record production, plans for a Chinese plant and a promise that sustainable profitability is fast approaching

03 августа 2018 5 мин. 9292

The Economic Benefits of Family Planning

The decision to start a family is one of the most important choices a person can make. It is also a fundamental human right; only individual adults should have the power to decide whether, when, or how often to conceive. And yet, for millions of people around the world, this right remains unrealized

02 августа 2018 4 мин. 6478

Bankruptcy or how managers themselves become debtors

The negative effects of this latest global financial crisis have been truly global, especially in those countries dependant on oil and gas. Unfortunately, Kazakhstan has been no exception, with events resulting in a wide range of economic and financial repercussions, such as general economic downturn, consumer difficulties and even recession

01 августа 2018 5 мин. 11921

Vaccinating Against an HIV Rebound

When I began my career as an HIV activist in Botswana two decades ago, the thought of a vaccine seemed fanciful. Even after the country hosted vaccine trials in the mid-2000s, many of us on the frontlines of the fight against HIV doubted that such a breakthrough would ever happen.

31 июля 2018 4 мин. 6769

How The 'Mission: Impossible' Sequels Saved Tom Cruise's Career

25th of July is the opening day, in several overseas territories, of Paramount/Viacom Inc.’s Mission: Impossible - Fallout

30 июля 2018 8 мин. 7047

America’s Second Sputnik Moment?

The burgeoning trade war between the United States and China has as much to do with technology as with the balance of trade. Reports have surfaced that the US Treasury Department is drafting rules to block Chinese firms from investing in American companies doing business in so-called industrially significant technology, while the Commerce Department is planning new export controls to keep such technologies out of Chinese hands