Your face is your fortune, vulnerable global travel and other top stories of the week

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Adrian Monck
Managing Director, World Economic Forum Geneva
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What your face tells others, reliably: whether you’re rich or poor.

This plastic bag is so biodegradable, you can eat it.

How to get the most out of digital investment. Six charts show the way.

Global travel is vulnerable--a new, tech-driven approach can make it safe.

Longer lives, fewer protections. Megatrends for the future of work.

Demonization, lobbyists, and a constitution’s limits. Lessons from 1930s Germany.

Who evades taxes, why it worsens inequality, and how to stop it.

Subscription hell. Time for a new business model for the web.

We need more troublemakers. Disagreement saves lives.

Cryptocurrencies aren’t gaining traction. But tech may still disrupt money.

The Belt and Road in Chinese media. More controversy than consensus.

Forum announces new Young Global Leaders. (Telegraph)

Are governments ready for the global energy transition? An op-ed by two Forum leads. (European Sting)

Digital investments’ return quantified at last. Coverage of a new Forum report. (Modern Diplomacy)

What a cyberwar looks like. Cites Forum Global Centre for Cybersecurity. (CNBC)

World Economic Forum on ASEAN to take place in Vietnam. (Xinhua)

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