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Uber to review Asia dealings amid US criminal probe
Bloomberg News, Published on 20/09/2017
» SAN FRANCISCO: Uber Technologies Inc, facing a federal probe into whether it broke laws against overseas bribery, has embarked on a review of its Asia operations and notified US officials about payments made by staff in Indonesia, people with knowledge of the matter said.
China fossil fuel deadline accelerates electric car race
Bloomberg News, Published on 11/09/2017
» China will set a deadline for automakers to end sales of fossil-fuel-powered vehicles, becoming the biggest market to do so in a move that will accelerate the push into the electric car market led by companies including BYD Co. and BAIC Motor Corp.
UK poised to ban diesel, petrol cars by 2040
Bloomberg News, Published on 26/07/2017
» LONDON -- The UK will ban sales of diesel and petrol cars by 2040 to combat air pollution, becoming the latest European country to embrace that the future in transportation will be electric vehicles.
HK towers world's most expensive real estate assets
Business, Bloomberg News, Published on 20/07/2017
» Singpore: Skyscrapers in Hong Kong are the world's most expensive commercial real estate assets, according to Knight Frank LLP.
Thailand targets skills gap: `We can't even invent a motorbike'
Bloomberg News, Published on 19/07/2017
» Thailand’s Education Minister Teerakiat Jareonsettasin poses a rhetorical question as he ponders the task of making innovation a bigger engine of economic growth: Would people prefer an electric car developed in the Southeast Asian nation, or one made by Tesla Inc?
Forget cars, for one Spaniard the autonomous future is forklifts
Business, Bloomberg News, Published on 11/07/2017
» Madrid: In Burgos, a province in central Spain better known for archaeological digs and blood-sausages than for innovation, engineer Veronica Pascual is building automated vehicles. Not cars though, but fork-lifts, stackers and pallet trucks.
Thailand copes with super baht 20 years after crash
Bloomberg News, Published on 30/06/2017
» Two decades ago, Thailand became ground zero of the Asia financial crisis, when its government scrapped a dollar peg with the baht, a devaluation that unleashed a wave of speculative attacks on other regional currencies and shook the global economy.
China's world tech domination begins in SE Asia
Bloomberg News, Published on 01/06/2017
» SINGAPORE -- Isaac Ho and several investors were watching a pitch from a cancer-detection start-up in Singapore when one of the Chinese billionaires present got up and -- without a word -- scrawled “Speed x Market Share” in Chinese characters on a whiteboard. It was a simple formula that meant: be first and be largest, no matter the cost. But that’s when Mr Ho understood how the Southeast Asian tech scene was about to change.
Swedes drop rape case against WikiLeaks' Assange
Bloomberg News, Published on 19/05/2017
» WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange moved closer to freedom Friday after Swedish prosecutors moved to drop a rape investigation against him, leaving the door open for him to emerge from his self-imposed exile in a London embassy.
Uber self-driving vehicle involved in Arizona crash
Bloomberg News, Published on 25/03/2017
» SAN FRANCISCO - A self-driving car operated by Uber Technologies Inc was involved in a crash in Tempe, Arizona, the latest setback for a company reeling from multiple crises.