A winter surge in Covid-19 cases driven by the Omicron variant is prompting economists to downgrade U.S. and global growth expectations in the early part of 2022 as businesses struggle Continue Reading
Crude oil demand in China is set to peak in 2030, until then driven by robust petrochemicals demand, research from state oil giant CNPC has suggested. This is a revision Continue Reading
China, under fire for approving new coal power stations as other countries try to curb greenhouse gases, has completed the first 1,000-megawatt unit of the Shanghaimiao plant, the biggest of Continue Reading
Coronavirus Cases Surge Across the Globe France will force its citizens to work from home for most of next month to contain the spread of the highly transmissible omicron variant. Continue Reading
Health experts urged the Italian government on Monday to relax COVID-19 quarantine rules, saying that the country otherwise risked paralysis as the highly infectious Omicron variant spreads. Under current rules, Continue Reading
Coronavirus cases are being reported at record levels across the world — surpassing even last winter’s devastating peak in some places — as officials grapple with a surge caused by Continue Reading
People cross a bridge at Pudong financial district in Shanghai August 11, 2014. China’s fiscal expenditure grew 9.6 percent in July from a year earlier to 1.03 trillion yuan (99.7 Continue Reading
The city at the center of China’s worst Covid-19 outbreak in almost two years has tightened lockdown measures and launched another round of mandatory testing for its 13m residents in Continue Reading
China has set fuel oil import limit at 16.2 million mt for 2022, unchanged from 2021, according to a policy release by the Ministry of Commerce dated Dec. 23. Receive Continue Reading
President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser warned on Sunday that the number of Americans infected with Covid-19 was likely to “go much higher” before easing off in the new year. Continue Reading
