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A flurry of approvals of new coal-fired plants in recent years spurs fear over China's climate pledges – and the huge task for the world to meet its global warming targets
“Passive investment will likely outpace active investment in China over the next three to five years at least,” one investment manager said
A huge increase in China's solar production capacity and installation will give its citizens power prices less than half the user-prices in Europe or Australia, a new report says
Huawei has said the new unit will engage in R&D, production, sales and service of intelligent automotive systems and component solutions
Leaked document has talking points for the president of the UN climate conference, who is an oil executive in the UAE, to advance oil and gas deals, reports say
Hang Seng heavyweight Meituan slumped 11% on consumer demand fears, sparking a dive in tech shares
Local governments have raised $21 billion via special bonds this year to boost the capital of small and mid-sized banks to reduce risks of spillover from the property crisis and economic slowdown
The 2020s will be a decade of rapid change driven by the need to counter intensifying global warming; responses by leading cities show a pattern likely to be replicated worldwide
The closure of the lab is the latest internal change at Alibaba, which surprised investors earlier this month by scrapping its plan to spin-off its cloud business
The startup makes chips that can use ambient sources of electricity such as light or vibrations as a power source — potentially removing the need for batteries in simple devices
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With a market cap of$240 billion, chipmaker ASML is Europe’s most valuable tech company. Its market-leading position comes from its monopoly in Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) machines which allow chipmakers to make smaller, faster and smarter semiconductors
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Oil & GasIndia Is Likely Exporting Refined Russian Oil to the WestIndia’s fast-rising Russian oil imports are being matched by its rising oil exports suggesting it may be reselling Russia’s oil to the West.
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MarketsApple Asks Suppliers in Taiwan to Meet China Label StandardsUS tech giant Apple told its Taiwan suppliers that products moving to China must be labelled to state that the island is a part of China and not an independent nation
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MarketsIndian-Owned Tech Firms See Sharp Growth in UKDespite a moribund British economy and heavy corporate tax, Indian-owned tech firms are growing in the UK.
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MarketsChina Becomes World’s Second-Biggest Bitcoin Mining HubThe Bitcoin mining ban in China last year had collapsed its crypto markets. Despite that, the country has reemerged as a major bitcoin mining hub, according to research by the UK's University of Cambridge.
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