SHANGHAI – As Shanghai sweltered in a heatwave in June, the car factory where Mike Chen works switched production to night shifts and dialed down the air-conditioning. For Chen, toiling through the early hours in his sweat-soaked uniform, it was the latest ...
SINGAPORE – Group of 20 nations have increased per capita emissions nearly 7% from coal-fired power since 2015, with China and India adding new plants, and Australia’s CO2 count per head nearly three times higher than the world average, research showed on Tuesday. As the bloc gathers for a summit in India this week, as many as seven G20 members ...
BEIJING – Despite Rome’s skepticism, China‘s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said cooperation with Italy under the Beijing-led Belt and Road initiative had been fruitful, with high-quality Italian products having entered “thousands of households” in China. “The thousand-year friendship inherited from the ancient Silk Road has endured,” Wang told visiting Italian Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani in ...
SYDNEY – Australia is considering extending the life of Origin Energy’s Eraring coal fired power plant, the country’s largest, the New South Wales (NSW) state minister for climate change said on Tuesday. Origin said last year it would shut Eraring seven years ahead of schedule in 2025, in part because falling power prices had made it difficult to ...
As women workers at India’s Urban Company, an app-based firm providing beauty and home care services, prepared for a nationwide protest against its new rules and account deactivations, they exchanged hundreds of messages on WhatsApp on every small detail of the days-long action. Thousands of Urban Company’s ...
Hello to all my StockCharts supporters! First of all, thank you for your readership of my Trading Places blog, which is now in its 8th year. Also, thanks to all of you that watch my Trading Places LIVE shows that ...
While many economists claim that high overall debt levels can lead to economic recessions, irresponsible government spending and money expansion are the real culprits. Original Article: “Easy Money Is a Much Bigger Economic Problem than Debt” ...
According to the American Medical Association, physician burnout “is a long-term stress reaction which can include the following: Emotional exhaustionDepersonalization (i.e., lack of empathy for or negative attitudes toward patients)Feeling of decreased personal achievement” The article goes on to say: ...
Homeless foreign nationals (i.e., “illegal aliens”) began arriving last week at a makeshift shelter in a Staten Island neighborhood. The arrivals come after New York City Mayor Eric Adams decided that a shuttered Catholic school on Staten Island would be used ...
The rioting in France is not due to racism nor is it the logical end of immigration. Instead, it is rooted in France’s minimum wage and other labor restrictions that lead to unemployment and resentment. Original Article: “France’s Unrest Has Deep ...