Global Supply Chain Chaos Palm oil production in Malaysia is on course for its weakest showing in five years as planters grapple with the worst-ever labor shortage in the second-biggest Continue Reading
Starting in late September, China’s top leadership began holding a series of emergency meetings. An energy crisis had started to engulf the country, propelled by high coal prices. And it wasn’t Continue Reading
China has outlined a plan to hit peak greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the decade, releasing a long-awaited blueprint just days ahead of the UN’s COP26 climate summit Continue Reading
China’s economy risks slowing faster than global investors realize as President Xi Jinping’s push to cut its reliance on real estate and regulate sectors from education to technology combine with Continue Reading
Vegetable prices are surging in China after heavy rain swamped crops this month, fuelling concern over food prices at a time when consumers must brace for a hike in energy Continue Reading
Chinese state-owned enterprises have a massive pipeline of coal-fired power projects in more than a dozen countries and it remains unclear if they’ll be scrapped, even after President Xi Jinping’s Continue Reading
China’s capital city is suffering through its worst air pollution since May in the wake of its decision to boost coal production to address a power crunch. The concentration of Continue Reading
Coal has come back into energy markets in a big way this year, serving as a vital energy source as natural gas prices soared to incredible heights The coal price Continue Reading
China’s Sinopec Corp plans to increase natural gas supplies from its domestic fields to 13.24 billion cubic metres (bcm) this winter, up 3% from a year earlier, it said on Continue Reading
China’s top economic planner said on Tuesday it was studying a mechanism to stabilise coal prices over the long run, in its latest move to cool the red-hot market. The Continue Reading
