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Liberia signs deal with Elon Musk's Starlink
Oct 13, 2024
MONROVIA — Liberia has signed a one-year licensing agreement with tech billionaire Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet service, in a bid to boost coverage across the poorly connected West African state.Internet coverage in Liberia currently stands at around 60 per cent, acting chairman of the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA), Abdullah ...
China tees up fresh spending to boost ailing economy
Oct 12, 2024
BEIJING — China said Saturday it would issue special bonds to help its sputtering eco ...
China's central bank says opens up $70.6b in liquidity to boost market
Oct 10, 2024
BEIJING — China's central bank on Thursday launched a "swap facility" offering firms ...
Government action needed for world to meet renewables goal — IEA
Oct 09, 2024
PARIS — The world is falling short of a global agreement to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030 but the target is within reach if gover ...
Taiwan's Foxconn says building world's largest 'superchip' plant
Oct 08, 2024
TAIPEI —  Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn said on Tuesday it was building the world's largest production facility for US hardware leader N ...
France's budget will 'fully' adhere to EU rules
Oct 07, 2024
BRUSSELS, Belgium — France's budget for 2025 will "fully" be in line with the European Union's new spending rules, Finance Minister Antoine ...
ACC Exports reach JD1.041b in Q3 of 2024
Oct 06, 2024
AMMAN — The Amman Chamber of Commerce (ACC) recorded exports totalling JD1.041 billion during the first nine months of 2024, according to ce ...
Climate change, economics muddy West's drive to curb Chinese EVs
Oct 05, 2024
BEIJING — China's meteoric rise as the world's powerhouse of electric vehicle production makes Western efforts to curb their exports a tough ...
Turkish inflation falls less than expected in September at 49.4%
Oct 04, 2024
ISTANBUL — Turkish annual inflation slowed less than expected in September to 49.4 per cent, official data showed Thursday, a figure which a ...
Hong Kong wealth gap more than doubles in five years — Oxfam
Oct 02, 2024
HONG KONG — Hong Kong's richest households now earn 80 times as much as the poorest, a figure that more than doubled in five years as the ci ...
UAE oil giant ADNOC swoops on German chemicals firm Covestro
Oct 01, 2024
FRANKFURT, Germany — German chemicals group Covestro said on Tuesday it had accepted a takeover bid from UAE state energy company ADNOC, as ...
China drives record growth in renewable energy jobs — report
Oct 01, 2024
DUBAI — A record 2.5 million jobs were created in the renewable energy sector in 2023, most of them in China, the International Renewable En ...
Shares in Stellantis, Aston Martin skid on profit warnings
Sep 30, 2024
PARIS — Shares in Jeep-maker Stellantis and Britain's Aston Martin tumbled on Monday after both companies joined European rivals in cutting ...

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