Did it all start right here? Ever since President Joe Biden ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to investigate reports that the Covid-19 virus might have escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, Continue Reading
China’s imports grew at their fastest pace in 10 years in May, fuelled by surging demand for raw materials, although export growth slowed more than expected amid disruptions caused by Continue Reading
Health teams have been carrying out surge testing in Dewsbury, as well as other towns where the Indian variant is spreading The number of people infected with coronavirus in the Continue Reading
Hibiscus Petroleum Bhd. is set to take over Repsol’s operations in Malaysia and Vietnam as the Spanish company sells its exploration and production assets in a move away from Malaysia Continue Reading
The European Union, Canada and other developed countries have signed deals to get hundreds of millions of doses of Covid-19 vaccines and boosters over the next two years, furthering a Continue Reading
Electric cars giant Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) said it expects to soon begin buying more than $1 billion a year of Australian lithium, nickel and other critical minerals for its batteries Continue Reading
Japan has notoriously been dependent on energy imports, being the world’s fifth-largest crude importer and second-largest LNG importer (having lost the top position to China last year). Its self-sufficiency ratio Continue Reading
China’s state planner on Thursday warned provincial and regional governments against missing their energy consumption and efficiency targets for 2021 after two-thirds of them fell short of at least some Continue Reading
The World Health Organization’s representative in Vietnam said the coronavirus mutation first detected there does not meet the global health body’s definition of a new variant, although it is still Continue Reading
While the world is not yet back to pre-pandemic travel levels and there is still ongoing disruption to ground transportation and air traffic, the world now consumes more than 95 Continue Reading
