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Not nothing, not enough: is the Paris climate agreement working?
AFP, Published on 13/10/2025
» PARIS - Climate cooperation is facing a reckoning. Ten years after the landmark Paris Agreement, major polluters are wavering on action while the world fast approaches the deal's safer warming limit.
First look at The Standard, Pattaya Na Jomtien, which opens on Oct 21
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 22/09/2025
» The Standard has announced its newest Southeast Asian outpost, The Standard, Pattaya Na Jomtien, which is scheduled to open on Oct 21.
Time to invest more in women
Oped, Published on 07/07/2025
» The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) in Seville, which ended on Thursday, has taken place at a time of escalating debt crises, rising poverty, declining food security and proliferating climate-related damage. These crises are all exacerbated by deep reductions in official development assistance (ODA), and they all disproportionately affect women and girls, especially in developing countries.
Nissan job cuts to cost additional $418 million
Bloomberg News, Published on 23/05/2025
» Nissan Motor Co has said job cuts it announced as part of a broader restructuring at the company could cost an additional ¥60 billion (US$418 million) this fiscal year.
Honda to scale back on EVs, Nissan plans workforce reduction
Reuters, Published on 20/05/2025
» TOKYO — Honda Motor said on Tuesday that it was scaling back its investment in electric vehicles (EVs) given slowing demand and would be focusing on capturing growing demand for hybrids with new models.
Spain brought to a halt by huge blackout
AFP, Published on 28/04/2025
» MADRID - Panicked customers scrambled to withdraw cash from banks and streets overflowed with crowds trying in vain to get a signal as a Spain-wide power outage plunged the country into chaos on Monday.
Mexico City bans traditional bullfights for violence-free option
New York Times, Published on 19/03/2025
» MEXICO CITY — In the biggest bullfighting city in the largest bullfighting country in the world, Mexico City lawmakers overwhelmingly voted on Tuesday to ban traditional bullfighting — a move that was supported by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum but was fiercely opposed by backers of the centuries-old custom.
Did COP29 fail women and girls?
News, Published on 13/12/2024
» The most recent United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) focused on finance, but it fell short in more ways than one. The contentious negotiations -- representatives from several developing countries walked out in protest -- defied the odds to produce a commitment -- the "Baku Climate Unity Pact" -- from developed economies to deliver $300 billion in climate funding annually to their poorer counterparts by 2035.
Stunning burst of seven birdies sees Ortiz storm to victory
Sports, Published on 27/02/2024
» Muscat: Mexico's Carlos Ortiz upstaged Louis Oosthuizen and Joaquin Niemann to record a convincing victory in the US$2million International Series Oman on Sunday -- the first of this year's International Series events.
Boosting the clean energy push
Oped, Published on 05/12/2023
» The world stands at a critical juncture in the fight against climate change. Either we drastically accelerate the clean-energy transition, or our fast-dwindling chances of preventing global temperatures from surpassing 1.5° Celsius above pre-industrial levels will be destroyed. Few understand the stakes better than Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries.