More than half of the vessels are very large crude carriers, the workhorses of seaborne oil trade, which can move up to two million barrels each in a single sailing. Continue Reading
Beijing is on alert for flooding as China struggles with a series of severe weather events that are driving up food prices and threatening its economic recovery from coronavirus. The Beijing Continue Reading
A key supplier to Apple Inc. and a dozen other tech giants plans to split its supply chain between the Chinese market and the U.S., declaring that China’s time as factory Continue Reading
A sharp escalation in tensions with the United States has stoked fears in China of a deepening financial war that could result in it being shut out of the global Continue Reading
Chinese President Xi stressed the need to maintain a sense of ‘crisis’ around food China has stepped up measures to reduce food waste, after President Xi Jinping called the amount Continue Reading
Four months ago, Congress approved the ambitious and unprecedented Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) as part of the $2 trillion pandemic rescue package, and now we’re starting to see the benefits Continue Reading
The U.S. reported nearly 56,000 new coronavirus cases, the highest daily tally in four days, as communities around the country face decisions on whether to reopen schools in the fall. Continue Reading
Nationwide, 200,000 more people have died than usual since March. This number is about 60,000 higher than the number of deaths that have been directly linked to the coronavirus. As the pandemic has moved Continue Reading
Russia’s health minister (l) has rejected widespread scepticism over the vaccine programme Russia has dismissed mounting international concern over the safety of its locally developed Covid-19 vaccine as “absolutely groundless”. Continue Reading
Nearly 6% of people in England were likely infected with COVID-19 during the peak of the pandemic, researchers studying the prevalence of infections said on Thursday, millions more people than Continue Reading
