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War, weather put ocean shippers on notice for rough seas
Reuters, Published on 06/01/2024
» LOS ANGELES - Recent hostilities in the Red Sea have thrown global shippers of vital goods for a loop — but it is hardly the only issue that big carriers are facing as 2024 kicks off.
To greenwash or do the right thing? Corporate dilemmas at COP28
AFP, Published on 02/12/2023
» DUBAI - They call the giant climate business expo running outside the COP28 United Nations talks in Dubai the "green zone".
HMV reopening raises revival hopes for London's Oxford Street
AFP, Published on 24/11/2023
» LONDON - British music retailer HMV returned to the iconic site of its former flagship store in central London on Friday, in a much-needed boost to the flagging fortunes of the capital's premier shopping street.
Malaysia faces 'inconvenient truth' on clean energy goals
Thomson Reuters Foundation, Published on 03/02/2023
» KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Chuan Zhen Ko's passion for clean energy and climate change was first ignited by his university lecturers and watching the 2006 Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth", starring former US Vice-President Al Gore.
Chengdu locks down 16m over Covid
AFP, Published on 01/09/2022
» BEIJING: Around 16 million people in the Chinese city of Chengdu will be effectively under lockdown from Thursday as authorities race to snuff out a new Covid-19 outbreak.
Russians brace for sanctions as their favourite shops close
AFP, Published on 08/03/2022
» MOSCOW: Yulia Shimelevich hurries to stock up on imported food for her cat and dog as it may soon disappear from Moscow shelves with the onslaught of sanctions from Western capitals on Russia over Ukraine.
Russia's war on Ukraine - latest
News Agencies, Published on 04/03/2022
» A summary of the latest developments in Russia's war on Ukraine:
Bloodshed and tears as eastern Ukraine faces Russian attack
AFP, Published on 24/02/2022
» CHUGUIV (UKRAINE) - A son wept over the body of his father among the wreckage of a missile strike in a residential district in the eastern Ukrainian town of Chuguiv as the country woke up Thursday to a Russian invasion.
Ikea to hike prices by 9% due to supply chain woes
AFP, Published on 31/12/2021
» STOCKHOLM - Ikea will hike its prices by an average of nine percent next year due to ongoing supply and transportation disruptions, the company that operates most of the Swedish furniture giant's stores said.
'Greenwashing' or genuine?: Behind big business' climate promises
AFP, Published on 02/11/2021
» PARIS: As warnings have intensified about the massive damage that climate change will have on the world in the coming decades, big business has started to make commitments to reduce carbon emissions.