GENEVA (Reuters) – The European Union scored a victory at the World Trade Organization on Tuesday as an adjudicating panel rejected a Malaysian complaint against an EU decision that biodiesel made from palm oil should cease to count as a renewable biofuel. In the WTO’s first ruling related to deforestation, a three-person panel voted by …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China will formulate plans to develop emerging industries including quantum computing and continue striving to achieve self-sufficiency in technology, a government work report said. It will also step up efforts in big data and artificial intelligence (AI) and intends to launch a number of major science and technology programmes to meet major …
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BAKU (Reuters) – Azerbaijani state television broadcast footage on Tuesday showing mechanical diggers destroying the building that once housed the breakaway ethnic Armenian parliament of Nagorno-Karabakh. The televised demolition, with giant metal claws tearing at the masonry of the gutted edifice, demonstratively underlined the restoration of control by Azerbaijan since its forces recaptured Karabakh last …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia and China are considering putting a nuclear power plant on the moon from 2033-35, Yuri Borisov, the head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday, something he said could one day allow lunar settlements to be built. Borisov, a former deputy defence minister, said that Russia and China had been jointly …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) -New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon on Tuesday was forced to fly on a commercial flight to attend an ASEAN summit in Melbourne after a technical snag hit his military aircraft, with local media reporting the delay may impact his meetings. Luxon’s flight was scheduled to take off from the capital Wellington on …
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By Sarah Wu BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese electric vehicle makers made a strong showing at the start of the country’s annual parliamentary meeting on Tuesday, bolstered by official recognition of their growing clout on the world stage as they asked for more regulatory support to become global brands. When Yin Tongyue started Chery Automobile 27 …
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By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s cabinet has approved a proposal to absorb about $553 million in debt from state-run SriLankan Airlines, a top official said on Tuesday, to smoothen its divestiture and make it more attractive to potential investors. Sri Lanka, which is struggling to emerge from its worst financial crisis in …
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By Jay Ereno MANILA (Reuters) – A free climber known as the “French Spiderman” scaled a Manila skyscraper on Tuesday to support the Philippines’ maritime claims in the disputed South China Sea. Frenchman Alain Robert, who has scaled more than 150 structures worldwide, including Dubai’s Burj Kalifa and France’s Eiffel Tower, drew a crowd and …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia will from the middle of this year start using a new software to better track taxpayers compliance, a long-awaited system upgrade aimed at preventing avoidance and boosting revenues, its finance minister said on Tuesday. Indonesia has one of the lowest tax-to-GDP ratios in the Asia-Pacific region at around 10%, despite numerous …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council on Tuesday urged China to accept the fact that the two sides are not subordinate to each other, after Beijing hardened its stance on the island in a government work report. Taiwan also urged China to create healthy cross-strait exchanges and interaction via dialogue without political preconditions, the …
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