The U.S. is preparing to blacklist Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. and dozens of other Chinese companies, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Shares in China’s top chipmaker slid 5.2% Friday Continue Reading
Sinopec’s Economics & Development Research Institute, or EDRI, foresee China becoming the world’s top refiner with about 1 billion mt/year, or 20 million b/d, of capacity by 2025, its vice Continue Reading
Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf says 2020 was a terrible year Sweden’s king has said his country “failed” to save lives with its relatively relaxed approach to the coronavirus pandemic. Continue Reading
China’s Zhejiang, Hunan and Jiangxi provinces, along with the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia, had restricted the electricity usage of industry and government agencies to combat the shortages of electricity Continue Reading
China’s electric vehicle sales would be more than 1.3 million units in 2020, up 8% year on year, Xu Haidong, the deputy chief engineer of China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, Continue Reading
One public hospital in Los Angeles is at a level below triage when it will have to discourage people from coming altogether Medical staff perform a tracheotomy on a covid Continue Reading
The future of coal looks like an ice-cream truck parked half a kilometer down a mine shaft in China’s Shanxi province. The yellow-and-white vehicle is equipped with a 5G router Continue Reading
British scientists are trying to establish whether the rapid spread in southern England of a new variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 is linked to key mutations they have Continue Reading
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Tuesday that a Chinese ban on Australian coal imports would breach World Trade Organization rules, as his government urged Beijing to resume dialog to ease Continue Reading
A floating solar power plant in Huainan, in eastern China.Credit…Agence France-Presse — Getty Images China on Saturday promised incremental new steps to address climate change in the next decade, but Continue Reading
China may open up its borders to seaborne coal and set price ceiling for Chinese coal in an attempt to cool domestic coal prices, according to a meeting note seen Continue Reading
China’s crude oil throughput hit a fresh high of 14.26 million b/d in November, edging up 0.8% from the previous high of 14.14 million b/d in October, with a significant Continue Reading
A U.S.-funded project using satellites to track and publish water levels at Chinese dams on the Mekong river was launched on Monday, adding to the superpowers’ rivalry in Southeast Asia. Continue Reading
China on Saturday promised incremental new steps to address climate change in the next decade, but signaled that it would not reveal all of its plans before seeing the next Continue Reading
World leaders and corporate bosses met virtually to set out what they will do to slow global warming — from emissions cuts to measures to force financial disclosure. The pledges Continue Reading
After surprising the world in September with a pledge to make China carbon neutral by 2060, President Xi Jinping has an opportunity to assert his global leadership on climate before Joe Continue Reading
It has not taken long for the wheels to come off the Belt and Road Initiative. As recently as May 2017, China’s leader Xi Jinping stood in Beijing before a Continue Reading
China is looking to attract investments in shale gas developments by easing restrictions on foreign entities and subsidizing costs in a bid to boost its natural gas production while its Continue Reading
Iraq has picked a Chinese state-owned oil producer and trader to pay it upfront for oil, providing much-needed cash to the Iraqi government which has been struggling to make ends Continue Reading
China must shut down by 2045 at the latest all coal power plants operating without carbon capture if Beijing is to meet its goal to become “carbon neutral” by 2060, Continue Reading
Xi Jinping, long distrustful of the private sector, is moving assertively to bring it to heel. China’s most powerful leader in a generation wants even greater state control in the world’s Continue Reading
The staff at Moscow’s Polyclinic No. 5, syringes at the ready, waited for the expected flood of people as the first phase of mass coronavirus vaccinations rolled out this week. Continue Reading
A child collects usable goods from the garbage in the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 2, 2020 It’s hard to remember, in the midst of a calamitous global pandemic, Continue Reading
Less than a decade ago, Yongcheng Coal and Electricity Holding was one of China’s most celebrated energy companies. Blessed with ample reserves of high-grade coal at its mines in China’s central Continue Reading
In El Paso, hospitals reported that just 13 of 400 intensive care beds were not occupied last week. In Fargo, N.D., there were just three. In Albuquerque, there were zero. Continue Reading
Big Bend Regional Medical Center, the sole hospital for 12,000 square miles, has just 25 beds, and a makeshift Covid ward where patients are sequestered at the end of a Continue Reading
When Alina Kosova’s uncle fell ill in their Siberian village last month, the ambulance sent from the nearby city of Omsk left without him, prompting his family to drive him Continue Reading
Iraq is poised to sign a multibillion-dollar contract with China ZhenHua Oil Co., a bailout from Beijing for the cash-strapped government which will receive money upfront in exchange for long-term oil Continue Reading
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership that 15 Asian nations signed last month will place South Korea and Japan in a more favorable position as oil product suppliers to China, Bloomberg Continue Reading
China’s record-high imports from earlier this year continued to slow down last month along with other commodity imports, as demand growth slackens. The average amount of oil China imported in Continue Reading
China is on a quest for world domination. Beijing has been making assertive moves into global energy markets for a while now, stepping into energy market power vacuums in largely Continue Reading
China’s export companies plan to increase gasoline exports in December by 30.7% from November to 2 million mt, while reducing gasoil exports by 28.5% to 1.3 million mt as domestic Continue Reading
China imported 9.18 million mt, or 12.65 Bcm, of natural gas, including LNG and piped gas, in November, up 21.8% on the month, S&P Global Platts calculations based on preliminary Continue Reading
The United States is preparing to impose sanctions on at least a dozen Chinese officials over their alleged role in Beijing’s disqualification of elected opposition legislators in Hong Kong, according Continue Reading
BEIJING (AP) — China’s politically sensitive trade surplus soared to a record $75.4 billion in November as exports surged 21.1% over a year earlier, propelled by American consumer demand. Exports Continue Reading
Cranes at the ready in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou last month. China’s trade surplus widened to a record in November, as global demand for the country’s goods grew Continue Reading
China has successfully installed an “artificial sun” device designed to test nuclear fusion processes, Chinese state media reported on Friday. The HL-2M Tokamak was installed in Chengdu of the Sichuan Continue Reading
China imported 9.18 million mt, or 12.65 Bcm, of natural gas, including LNG and piped gas, in November, up 21.8% on the month, S&P Global Platts calculations based on preliminary Continue Reading
Chinese automotive manufacturer BYD sold 18,220 pure-electric passenger vehicles in November, up by 22.1% from October and by 127.8% from a year earlier. November sales of plug-in hybrids passenger vehicles Continue Reading
San Francisco’s local lockdown began slightly earlier than in some other parts of the state Most parts of the US state of California are under a strict new lockdown, as Continue Reading
World Health Organization officials on Friday warned governments and citizens not to drop their guard over the COVID pandemic now a vaccination was close, saying healthcare systems could still buckle Continue Reading
The United States is winding up a particularly devastating week, one of the very worst since the coronavirus pandemic began nine months ago. On Friday, a national single-day record was set, Continue Reading
Over 1.5 million people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 with one death reported every nine seconds on a weekly average, as vaccinations are set to begin in December Continue Reading
Covid-19 vaccines that need to be deep-frozen during transport can be delivered to developing nations in sub-Saharan Africa, South America and South Asia, according to logistics group DHL. John Pearson, Continue Reading
China has published a draft law, seeking public comments, aimed at ensuring national food security and reforming the management of high grain reserves in the country, according to a report Continue Reading
China is set to allow a shipment of Australian coal into the country, according to a person familiar with the matter, despite a ban on such imports remaining in place Continue Reading
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell as the nation celebrated Thanksgiving last week to a still-high 712,000, the latest sign that the U.S. economy and job market Continue Reading
Various reports that Chinese oil giants, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) are ‘considering acquiring’ U.S. oil titan ExxonMobil’s 32.7 per cent stake in Continue Reading
It may be a lame duck session, but Donald Trump’s presidency is far from over, and neither is his trade war with China. Just a few days ago the sitting Continue Reading
The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned on Wednesday the COVID-19 pandemic, still raging with unprecedented fury nationwide, will pose the country’s grimmest health crisis Continue Reading
