Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sun, 15 May 2022 21:21:50 +0000
Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob wants Tesla to open a plant in Malaysia. He recently invited several Fortune 500 companies, especially Tesla, to invest in his nation. He told local journalists after meeting with the CEO and President of the US-ASEAN Business Council (US-ABC), Ted Osious, that he’s suggested that Tesla produce EVs in […]
Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2022 04:16:00 +0000
Natural gas generation’s future hinges on a precarious and exceptionally volatile set of issues that the conflict in Ukraine intensified. Experts from the full natural gas chain shed light on how that
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BANGKOK: Authoritarian governments in Asia are undermining human rights and demonizing their critics, but they face a rising tide of protest from young people who defy grave risks to protest such repression, Amnesty International said in its annual report on the region. The human rights group’s annual survey of the Asia-Pacific region, released Wednesday, said […]
Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 03:33:01 +0000
BEIJING, China — It was meant to be an unabashed celebration of the triumph of Communism in China, and of President Xi Jinping’s authority as the country’s undisputed leader for years to come. But as the People’s Republic of China approaches its 70th anniversary on October 1st, Xi finds himself battling threats on multiple fronts. From […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 02:39:59 +0000
BEIJING — A spokesman for China’s ceremonial legislature has condemned statements from U.S. lawmakers supportive of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement. You Wenze called the comments “a gross violation of the spirit of the rule of law, a blatant double standard and a gross interference in China’s internal affairs.” He says Hong Kong’s 7.5 million people […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 05:56:33 +0000
TOKYO, Japan — A powerful tropical storm lashed Japan on Thursday, bringing strong winds and torrential rain that injured at least 14 people, prompted warnings of landslides and flooding, and sparked evacuation advisories and travel chaos at a peak holiday period. Severe Tropical Storm Krosa — one notch below a typhoon — was churning slowly […]
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Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 08:11:09 +0000
SEOUL — South Korea plans to add two more ground-based anti-missile early warning radars and build three Aegis-equipped destroyers in the next five years in an effort to better detect and intercept incoming missiles from North Korea, the defense ministry said Wednesday. The plan was one of the key projects that the ministry unveiled in its five-year […]
Read moreCredit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 07:58:45 +0000
SEOUL — When Korea was under Japan’s colonial rule from 1910 to 1945, many Koreans lost their houses and land to the Japanese. A significant portion of Korean property was forcefully taken by the Japanese military and sold cheaply to its residents. The fledging Korean government, established in 1948, pledged to retrieve the property from the Japanese […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 12:08:17 +0000
BEIJING — A senior U.S. diplomat says Washington is consulting with its allies as it proceeds with plans to deploy intermediate-range missiles in Asia, a move China says it will respond to with countermeasures. Washington has said it plans to place such weapons in the Asia-Pacific following the U.S. withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:07:03 +0000
SINGAPORE — Singapore will ban the domestic trade of elephant ivory from Sept 1, 2021, according to the National Parks Board (NParks). The sale of elephant ivory and ivory products, as well as the public display of such products for the purpose of selling them, will be prohibited here once the ban takes effect. It […]
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