Innholdsfortegnelse for 11/22/2019 i Newsweek International

In June 2019, Mai Vu Minh accepted an invitation and paid working visits to Bosnia-Herzegovina President Milorad Dodik, Serbia First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic and Srpska President Željka Cvijanovic. These meetings were within the framework of a bilateral investment cooperation program between the SAPA Thale group and the governments and leading business sectors of these countries. In 2018, Minh represented SAPA Thale in the signing of a bilateral investment cooperation agreement with the Dubai Investment Development Agency and the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies for investment in billion-dollar projects between Vietnam and the Middle East. During his working visits, Minh said that the commercial potential of southwestern European countries, the Middle East, Vietnam and Germany is very large and that the investment cooperation program…

A boy plays in flood waters on November 6. Heavy rains have cut off the town in east South Sudan for over a month and a state of emergency has been declared in several areas across the country. Recent floods have killed dozens and 420,000 people have been forced to leave their homes. Despite dealing with flooding of its hospital in Pibor, Médecins Sans Frontières is now working to prevent local outbreaks of disease.…

THINK OF A GONDOLA SUSPENDED UNDER A cable, floating high off the ground as it hauls a cabin full of passengers up a long, steep mountain slope. To most people, the image would suggest ski resorts and pricey vacations. To the people who live in the poor mountainside communities once known as favelas at the edges of Medellín, Colombia, the gondola system is a lifeline, and a powerful symbol of an extraordinary urban transformation led by technology and data. The technology that helped save Medellín is not what you’d see in San Francisco, Boston or Singapore—fleets of driverless cars, big tech companies and artificial intelligence. It is about gathering data to make informed decisions on how to deploy technology where it has the most impact. And it is about establishing…

“I’m really excited to be back in Hindi cinema. It’s my first love.” A LOT HAS CHANGED FOR THE BOLLYWOOD ACTRESS PRIYANKA CHOPRA since her last big Hindi cinema role in 2016. The 37-year-old star successfully crossed over from Bollywood to Hollywood with a starring role in ABC’s Quantico (2015–2018) and the movie Baywatch (2017). She is half of one of the world’s most-photographed celebrity couples with husband Nick Jonas. Chopra recently returned to her Bollywood roots in the Hindi-language biopic The Sky is Pink, which opened on October 11, about real-life teenage motivational speaker Aisha Chaudhary, who gained fame for speaking out about suffering from pulmonary fibrosis. Chopra, who plays Aisha’s mother Aditi in the film, says “they are a normal family who has thrived under extraordinary circumstances.” Chopra…

FOR SEVERAL YEARS I HAVE ASKED PEOPLE “Why, in your appointment with your doctor, is his or her back turned to you, working on a computer?” The common answers: “She’s writing down my words to remember them,” “He’s ordering tests” or “To get me better health care.” No, no and no: the primary purpose of the computer is billing. The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is essentially a cash register. It was developed by technocrats as part of a mandate of the Obama administration in 2008 to help make medical records more efficient. It was a good idea: to make all clinical data from a patient’s medical history readily available electronically to doctors and other health care workers. It would have worked, if it were used only for that. But somehow…

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Ethiopia’s capital is undergoing a massive public transportation renaissance. For one thing, under the city’s Urban Renewal Project, officials have been constructing trams and commuter train lines to improve lower-end communities and social sustainability. But that’s not all: In 2017, it unveiled a 15-story smart parking system. The big, hoped-for payoff: All these projects will reduce the very severe urban congestion and help mitigate carbon emissions. Amsterdam, the Netherlands This Dutch metropolis is widely known as one of the world’s leading—and most innovative—smart cities. It has launched more than 150 green energy, transportation and urban planning projects. Also, in 2009 the Amsterdam Smart City was launched; it is an online platform where citizens, government officials and businesses can test smart-city projects. Barcelona, Spain About six years ago,…

OF ALL THE GIFTS CHARLEY PRIDE HAS SURELY been given, maybe the one that has mattered most is his seeming ease. Not his legendary voice, though it’s earned him 52 top-10 Billboard country hits, including 29 No. 1s. Not the arm that got him a spot on the Negro American League’s Memphis Red Sox as a teenage pitcher out of Sledge, Mississippi. Not even his father, a sharecropper who never failed to tune the family’s Philco radio to the Grand Ole Opry so young Charley was surrounded by the traditional sound of country. You just get the sense, listening to Pride talk in that smiling baritone of his, that there isn’t a thing in the world he’d let faze him. I reached that epiphany in the midst of a long…

“By combining different hardware, data analysis and these new services, Yanmar can provide solutions in a more focused way”Takehito Suzuki, Representative Director, Yanmar Holdings “The emergence of new technologies, such as IoT and Big Data, have allowed us to acquire a deeper understanding of our customer’s metrics”Ken Okuyama, Director, Yanmar Holdings With the UN estimating the world population to balloon to 9 billion people by 2050, it projects that global food demand in turn will increase by 60% on current levels, presenting an unprecedented challenge for the agriculture industry worldwide. Meeting such demand will require solving several issues across the food value chain, where innovation and big-thinking will be required like never before. Those challenges include efficient use of land, improving agricultural management through the adoption of new technologies, and…

THE WORLD’S GREAT URBAN CENTERS have always been laboratories of living—crowded, often chaotic places where civilization is continually reimagining and reinventing itself. The city is where the future happens first. As part of Newsweek Next, our ongoing effort to give readers a look at what is over the horizon, this issue introduces the Momentum Awards. Our editorial team and council of experts set out to identify the people, cities and companies that are applying the technology and ideas of the future to solve problems that seem intractable today. We’ve singled out five remarkable leaders who are propelling the world toward an environmentally sustainable, socially equitable and economically viable future. We also recognize the 25 Smartest Cities—including the World’s Smartest and another city that is on the move. (Both selections may surprise…

Few cities face the kind of challenges that Freetown faces. A city of 1 million and capital of the West African nation of Sierra Leone, Freetown endured a bloody civil war in the 1990s and continued rebel attacks through 2002, when the country established a stable government. The nation ranks near the bottom of the United Nations’ Human Development Index, which gauges essential quality of life in 187 nations. More than half the country’s residents live on less than $1.25 a day. Although Freetown is slightly richer, many residents live in slums, where they’re exposed to floods and disease. The national government has responded to these crushing problems with smart-city solutions. Last year, President Julius Maada Bio established the Directorate of Science, Technology and Innovation and appointed David Moinina Sengeh,…