Australia's economy can withstand the proposed European Union carbon tariff — here's what we find
Apr 23, 2021 11:41 am UTC| Economy
The European Union has committed to very significant emission cuts 55% on 1990 levels by 2030, and zero net emissions by 2050. To help it get there without too much disruption, the president of the European Commission...
Mondelēz and Olam to put up sustainable cocoa farm in Indonesia
Apr 23, 2021 11:30 am UTC| Business Economy
Mondelēz International and Olam Food Ingredients (OFI) have entered into a 50:50 joint venture to create the worlds largest sustainable commercial cocoa farm 2,000-hectares wide in Indonesia. The farm to be built on the...
Apr 23, 2021 11:26 am UTC| Politics Economy
India reported 314,000 new cases of COVID-19 on April 22, the highest-ever infection tally recorded by any country on a single day. Many hospitals across the country are unable to cope with the unprecedented demand for...
Lee Jae Yong: Groups to ask the government to pardon the Samsung heir
Apr 23, 2021 09:58 am UTC| Business Economy
Lee Jae Yong, Samsung heir, and the companys de facto vice-chairman, is currently in prison and serving his two and a half years sentence that was handed down by the Seoul High Court in January. He was found guilty of...
S. Korea's container cargo volume at seaports increase 1.3% in Q1
Apr 23, 2021 09:50 am UTC| Business Economy
South Koreas seaports processed 7.29 million twenty-foot-equivalent units (TEUs) of container cargos in the first quarter, rising 1.3 percent on-year from the previous years 7.19 TEUs, according to the Ministry of Oceans...
Peloton facing a lawsuit over its treadmill's safety
Apr 23, 2021 09:46 am UTC| Business Economy
Peloton has been sued for the first time since the reports on the safety hazard of its Tread+ treadmill started to mount up. Now, a woman from California was said to have filed a lawsuit and complained that the exercise...
Hankook Tire reveals Porsche deal as its tire supplier
Apr 23, 2021 09:03 am UTC| Business Economy
Hankook Tire revealed it had signed a deal to supply tires for a model of Porsche sports car. The South Korean tire maker is the seventh-largest in the world based on sales, and on Thursday, April 22, it confirmed the...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
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IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects