Economy Live

China has made inroads into the African economy with its biggest ever acquisition on foreign soil with the state controlled Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd (ICBC) agreeing to buy 20% of the share of Standard Bank Group Ltd., Africa's largest.

Michael Crichton, the author of such best-selling science fiction extravaganzas like the Jurassic Park has a quieter, less known book which bristles over with a rabid fear of all things Japanese. In the Sun Rising, Crichton talks of the Japanese...