Asia Pacific

Good news for elephants: China’s legal ivory trade is ‘dying’ as prices fall

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Elephant conservationists hopeful that demand for ivory in China is falling amid government clampdown on ivory sellers, but experts remain wary of poaching

Hard times for luxury Swiss watches as sales drop 10%

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Swiss watch federation reports huge drop in exports to China as official crackdown on bribery makes it worst year for industry since 2009

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: faces of the new ‘global citizen class’?

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Research finds tens of thousands of ultra-rich individuals buying multiple homes in the planet’s most desirable locations

We are destroying rainforests so quickly they may be gone in 100 years

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At current rates of deforestation, rainforests will vanish altogether in a century. Stopping climate change will remain an elusive goal unless poor nations are helped to preserve them

Where is the world’s most hi-tech city? (And it’s not San Francisco …)

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Twitter and Uber may be based in San Francisco, but Santiago’s ‘Chilecon Valley’ and the South Korean capital Seoul could both make claims