China’s oil imports from Africa may have dropped sharply in recent years, but investments by Chinese companies in liquefied natural gas (LNG) are booming. Nearly two decades ago, African oil ...

THE first issue of the Quarterly Journal of the Rubber Research Institute of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, January 1929, bears witness to the very active steps that have been taken to put the new Research ...

They call it “creative abdication.” In Malaya, Britain’s rubber-rich colony, last week the phrase seemed for once appropriate. Four years ago the British promised Malaya self-determination ...