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Category: East Asia

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  • China

China’s Clampdown On Small Refiners Could Impact Oil Demand

In a bid to reduce refining overcapacity, China is stepping up pressure on independent refiners to uproot illegal tax practices and check if outdated facilities have been closed as required, Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Japan

Japan to release contaminated Fukushima water into sea after treatment

Japan will release more than 1 million tonnes of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear station into the sea, the government said on Tuesday, a move opposed by neighbours Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Japan

Countries react to Japan’s plans to release Fukushima water into ocean

South Korea summoned Japan’s ambassador to Seoul on Tuesday to protest the Japanese government’s plan to release huge amounts of contaminated water that have built up at the wrecked Fukushima Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Japan

Countries react to Japan’s plans to release Fukushima water into ocean

 South Korea summoned Japan’s ambassador to Seoul on Tuesday to protest the Japanese government’s plan to release huge amounts of contaminated water that have built up at the wrecked Fukushima Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China

China’s March exports rise 30.6% as global demand revives

China’s exports rose 30.6% over a year ago in March as global consumer demand strengthened and traders watched for signs of what President Joe Biden might do about reviving tariff Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • USA

US chaos has also led to vaccination success

From the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, US cities, states, and even villages made up their own rules and called it freedom. That approach to combating coronavirus arguably led to Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus

Coronavirus live updates: More contagious virus variant not linked to worse disease, new study says

A more transmissible coronavirus variant first detected in Britain does not cause more severe illness in hospitalized patients, according to a new study published by the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal. The study, Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus

Ontario hospitals may have to withhold care as COVID-19 fills ICUs

Doctors in the Canadian province of Ontario may soon have to decide who can and cannot receive treatment in intensive care as the number of coronavirus infections sets records and Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Iran
  • South Korea

South Korean Premier in Iran for Talks Over Frozen Oil Funds

South Korea’s prime minister arrived in Tehran for talks over $7 billion of Iranian funds trapped in his country by U.S. sanctions, with a successful outcome likely to be seen Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China

China considering mixing COVID-19 vaccines to boost protection rate

China’s top disease control official has said the country is formally considering mixing COVID-19 vaccines, as a way of further boosting vaccine efficacy. Available data shows Chinese vaccines lag behind Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Korea

S.Korean battery makers agree $1.8 billion settlement, aiding Biden’s EV push

South Korean battery makers LG Energy Solution and SK Innovation Co agreed on Sunday to settle disputes over electric-vehicle (EV) battery technology, avoiding a potential setback for U.S. EV ambitions. Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Korea

South Korean EV battery groups settle high-stakes US dispute

The settlement came after the US International Trade Commission in February slapped a 10-year import ban on SK Innovation over allegations from its Korean rival of illegally acquiring sensitive technology. Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China

Tesla’s Biggest Competitor Is Ditching Nickel And Cobalt

China’s BYD confirmed that it is going all-in on LFP (lithium-iron-phosphate) batteries, scrapping NCM (nickel, cobalt, manganese) technology from its model line-up entirely. BYD, which is backed by legendary US Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China

China Sets World Record For Deep-Sea Drilling In Disputed South China Sea

China has set a world record for deep-sea drilling in the South China Sea, Chinese state media reported, while tensions in the disputed area are rising. According to the Xinhua Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia

Australia abandons COVID-19 vaccination targets after new advice on AstraZeneca shots

Australia has abandoned a goal to vaccinate nearly all of its 26 million population by the end of 2021 following advice that people under the age of 50 take Pfizer’s Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China

Hong Kong Looks to Sea for Clean Energy in Land-Starved City

Hong Kong’s CLP Holdings Ltd. is looking offshore to help meet a growing need for renewable energy, as limited land supply in the city poses a challenge to building clean-power Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China

China official says local vaccines lack effectiveness

The head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention conceded that the efficacy of Chinese coronavirus vaccines is “not high” and that they may require improvements, marking a Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China

Maintenance accelerates in China

A number of refineries in China are starting or planning to carry out works in the second quarter. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus

‘The next wave has started.’ Covid surge in Michigan raises alarm

A few weeks ago, doctors in Michigan hospitals began noticing their intensive care units were filling up again with coronavirus patients — something they had hoped the state’s high level Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus

No region in the world spared as virus cases, deaths surge

Hospitals in Turkey and Poland are filling up. Pakistan is restricting domestic travel. The U.S. government will send more help to the state with the country’s worst infection increase. The Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Iran
  • South Korea

Iran frees South Korean ship, captain after promise to help with frozen funds

Iran released on Friday a South Korean ship and its captain detained since January after South Korea promised to try to secure the release of Iranian funds frozen in South Continue Reading

Posted On : 9 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China

Details of sweeping effort to counter China emerge in U.S. Senate

Leaders of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee introduced major legislation on Thursday to boost the country’s ability to push back against China’s expanding global influence by promoting human rights, Continue Reading

Posted On : 9 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • Europe

Spain and Italy to restrict AstraZeneca’s Covid jab to over-60s

Spain and Italy have moved to limit the use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine to people aged above 60, in shifts that will complicate the countries’ efforts to step up their vaccination Continue Reading

Posted On : 9 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • Poland

‘This is war’: Polish doctors exhausted by non-stop COVID third wave

Some Polish doctors and nurses are just taking naps between shifts as they fight a third wave of the coronavirus, the health minister said on Friday, amid reports of medical Continue Reading

Posted On : 9 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Brazil
  • coronavirus

Covid-19 live updates: Brazil and India now worst-hit hotspots with record new cases and deaths

Public health experts are raising alarm over Brazil this week, as the pandemic-hit nation has reached several grim coronavirus milestones, including a record number of deaths and the possible spread Continue Reading

Posted On : 8 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • USA

The U.S.-China Trade War Isn’t Over Yet

When former U.S. President Donald Trump ascended into the Oval Office in January 2017, he kicked off his presidency by investigating unfair trade practices in China as part of his Continue Reading

Posted On : 8 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Korea

South Korea shuts nuclear reactors for second time due to influx of marine organisms

South Korea has shut two nuclear reactors due to an influx of marine organisms just two weeks after restarting them after an earlier influx, company officials said April 8, adding Continue Reading

Posted On : 8 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus

More Contagious Virus Variant Is Now Dominant in U.S., C.D.C. Chief Says

A highly infectious variant of the coronavirus that was first identified in Britain has become the most common source of new infections in the United States, the director of the Continue Reading

Posted On : 8 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus

U.K. Limits AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine to Over-30s Amid Blood-Clot Concerns – WSJ

The U.K.’s vaccines advisory body said the Covid-19 vaccine produced by AstraZeneca PLC should preferably not be given to people under 30 following concerns that it causes potentially deadly blood clots in Continue Reading

Posted On : 8 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China

China’s Growth Set to Drive World Economy in Post-Pandemic Years

China will drive global economic growth in the coming years as the world recovers from an pandemic that’s killed 2.9 million people, the International Monetary Fund predicts. China will contribute Continue Reading

Posted On : 7 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China

China’s Covid-19 Vaccination Drive Includes Free Ice Cream

In Beijing, the vaccinated qualify for buy-one-get-one-free ice cream cones. In northern Gansu Province, a county government published a 20-stanza poem extolling the virtues of the jab. In the southern Continue Reading

Posted On : 7 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China

China one-child policy: can dropping limits increase birth rates?

China’s one-child policy started in the 1980s to slow population growth, with some exemptions eventually coming about. In recent years it’s been relaxed to allow families’ to have two children. Continue Reading

Posted On : 7 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus

Covid-19 News: Live Updates

Nearly 80 percent of school staff and child care workers in the United States have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control and Continue Reading

Posted On : 7 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China

China’s Longi Green Energy Technology to Join Hydrogen Market, Solarzoom Says

China’s Longi Green Energy Technology Co., the world’s biggest solar company, is entering the hydrogen market, industry publication Solarzoom reported. Xi’an Longi Hydrogen Technology Co. was registered March 31 in China, according Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China

China Creates its Own Digital Currency, a First for Major Economy

A thousand years ago, when money meant coins, China invented paper currency. Now the Chinese government is minting cash digitally, in a re-imagination of money that could shake a pillar Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • USA

The U.S. Is Losing The Energy Tech War Against China

For years, the U.S. and China have waged war over technology, trade, and capital markets. Tensions between the world’s leading economies reached a fever pitch during former president Trump’s term Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus

Yellen: U.S. economy threatened by slow vaccine rollout in poor countries

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday called for speeding up the distribution of coronavirus vaccines in poorer nations, arguing the United States and global economies are threatened by the impact of Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • Europe

Europe’s third wave: ‘It’s spreading fast and it’s spreading everywhere’

More than a year after the start of the pandemic, Europe is enduring a grim spring. Covid-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths are rising in many countries as the continent grapples Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China

Coal Is In Terminal Decline, But China’s Consumption Is Climbing

Coal, the dirtiest of the world’s fossil fuels, has been in terminal decline for years now. Investment in the once-vital commodity has crashed, and the ESG movement is only accelerating Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China

Chinese Smartphone Giant Makes $10 Billion Bet On EVs

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi will set up an electric vehicle (EV) unit with an investment of US$10 billion over ten years, joining a competitive electric car market at home. “The Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • Refining

China’s Refiners Are An Existential Threat To Regional Competitors

China’s build-up of oil refining capacity is threatening the viability of other Asian refiners as the country is about to become the world’s largest refiner this year amid still depressed Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Korea
  • Wind

World’s Biggest Wind Farm Is Key to Korea’s Net-Zero Dream

The fishing grounds where Jung Kuenbae and his forbears have caught shrimp, butterfish and croakers for three generations are going to be turned into the world’s largest offshore wind farm. Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China

China’s Mega-Refineries Throttling Other Asia Oil Processors

The rise of China’s mega-refineries was always going to make life tougher for their competitors across Asia. But the fallout from Covid-19 is hastening the impact and accelerating consolidation across the Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • coronavirus
  • France

France Heads Into Monthlong Lockdown as Virus Spirals in Europe

French President Emmanuel Macron announced a nationwide four-week lockdown, closing schools and business, in the latest and alarming sign that Europe is yet again losing control of the pandemic. “We did Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • Iran

China Set To Buy 1 Million Bpd Of ‘Cheap’ Iranian Crude This Month

China’s crude oil imports from Iran this month could reach close to 1 million bpd, Reuters reported today, citing trading and analyst sources. That would be almost half the amount Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • Climate

China’s Coal Power Generation Jumps As Electricity Demand Soars

China’s coal-fired power generation increased last year as growing electricity demand outpaced the installations of new clean power capacity, making China the only G-20 country with rising coal generation, climate Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China

China’s Vaccination Plan Could Lift GDP Growth to 9.3%

China’s ambitious plan to vaccinate 40% of its population by the end of June could pave the way for lifting the economy’s growth rate to 9.3% this year, Oxford Economics Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Aviation
  • East Asia

Asia-Pacific Feb air passenger traffic plunges 94% on year, but cargo demand rises: AAPA

Asia-Pacific air passenger traffic plunged 93.7% year on year in February as nations maintained strict border controls due to the global pandemic, Association of Asia-Pacific Airlines data released March 29 Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • Iran

China Signs 25-Year Deal With Iran in Challenge to the U.S.

China and Iran signed an overarching deal aimed at charting the course of their economic, political and trade relations over the next 25 years. The Chinese government plans to invest Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • Iran

Iran seeks to boost oil exports to China with bilateral agreement

Iran and China on March 27 signed a sweeping 25-year trade and security cooperation pact that could lead to increased oil flows from Tehran to Beijing. Not registered? Receive daily Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple

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