by Lucy Ren | Aug 26, 2015 | Business & Tech, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – Financial technology services, such as digital payments, are rapidly transforming the landscape of developing countries, while also contributing to a safer global financial system, experts said at a Brookings Institution panel Wednesday. The Brookings...
by Jin Wu & Siyuan Du | Aug 26, 2015 | Entertainment
WASHINGTON – The first 3-D Beijing opera mask exhibition is being held at the Katzen Art Center in American University. Xichen Xu, the organizer, producer and curator of the event, collected paintings and masks and invited many artists to enrich the art world in...
by Lucy Ren | Aug 25, 2015 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON –The recent currency devaluation and stock market rout in China pose little threat to the longstanding inflows to international equity funds, with U.S. investors still counting on global quantitative easing to boost their fund returns, experts say. Mutual...
by Kira Boyd | Aug 25, 2015 | Environment
Washington—Dozens of young people from across the U.S. rallied in front of Secretary of State John Kerry’s Georgetown home Tuesday. They were protesting the Alberta Clipper pipeline expansion. Environmental activists believe the expansion is the result of...
by Jenny Leonard | Aug 25, 2015 | Data Projects
WASHINGTON—The two female students who graduated from the Army’s elite Ranger School this month made it official—women are capable of fighting alongside and keeping up with their male counterparts. But since the DoD announced in 2013 that all positions will be...
by Lucy Ren | Aug 25, 2015 | Data Projects
With four months left in 2015, the banking industry this year has lost more than last year from bank failures, ending the steady streaks of declines in both assets of failed banks and the cost of closing them since the 2008 financial crisis. “The banking industry...
