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Philippines freezes $200m in assets linked to flood graft
Bloomberg News, Published on 26/11/2025
» MANILA - The Philippine government has frozen more assets allegedly linked to graft-ridden flood control projects, raising the total to 12 billion pesos ($204 million), President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Wednesday.
Chinese billionaire’s carmaker adds satellites in Musk territory
Bloomberg News, Published on 03/02/2024
» HONG KONG - A Chinese rocket launched a group of communications satellites produced by one of the country's largest carmakers, boosting the nation's efforts to catch up in low-Earth orbit — an area dominated by Elon Musk's SpaceX.
Top China diplomat defends growth model, draws line on Taiwan
Bloomberg, Published on 21/04/2023
» Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang defended his nation’s development path at a forum attended by foreign executives Friday, while warning that his nation will not compromise on Taiwan.
Bodies pile up at Chinese crematoriums as Covid surges
Bloomberg News, Published on 03/01/2023
» SHANGHAI: For five days the elderly Chinese woman’s corpse lay decomposing in the Shanghai house she shared with her family before a hearse finally arrived to take away her remains.
Between new rivals and a distracted boss, Tesla suffers on Wall Street
AFP, Published on 31/12/2022
» NEW YORK - Tesla lost a staggering two-thirds of its market value in 2022, a victim of fears about demand for electric vehicles, dismay at Elon Musk's tribulations as head of Twitter and the end of easy money on Wall Street.
'I was counting dead trees': Scientists join climate crisis fight
AFP, Published on 28/10/2022
» MUNICH (GERMANY) - Laure-Anne Gateaux did not train as a tropical ecologist only to end up sitting on a busy shopping street in her lab coat with one hand glued to the ground.
Mercedes-Benz to sell off Russian assets to local investor
AFP, Published on 26/10/2022
» MOSCOW - German carmaker Mercedes-Benz is expected to sell its Russian assets to a local investor, the Russian ministry of industry and trade said Wednesday, becoming the latest automaker to exit since Moscow sent troops to Ukraine.
Russian tourists' luxury cars fill up Helsinki airport
AFP, Published on 23/08/2022
» HELSINKI: Porsches, Bentleys and other luxury cars with Russian licence plates are filling up the parking garage at Helsinki's airport as Finland becomes an important transit country for Russian tourists flying to Europe.
Qataris vote in subdued first legislative election
AFP, Published on 02/10/2021
» DOHA - Qataris were voting in the emirate's first legislative election Saturday, a symbolic nod to democracy that analysts say will not lead to power shifting away from the ruling family.
Nuremberg preserves Nazi past, stone by stone
AFP, Published on 09/11/2020
» NUREMBERG (GERMANY) - When Nazi ruins begin to crumble, is it better for Germany to rip them down or restore them?