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- “Indonesia has the potential to be a regional and even global champion in the future green economy,” said Porwanto. Other than supplying raw materials such as nickel — Indonesia has the world’s largest reserves of the metal used in batteries — the country could also be a centre for EV production and carbon **monetisation**, he said.
- Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg
Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday that he expected new pledges of air defence supplies “will be announced soon” but did not provide any details of the countries or weaponry involved
- The risk of a broader conflict in the Middle East threatens to reverse a surge in the price of riskier assets since the start of the year, the IMF’s top financial stability official has warned.
- “I have seen four different schemes or proposals to circumvent what many
“I have seen four different schemes or proposals to circumvent what many other jurists or lawyers — including in some administrations in this country — regard as a very serious legal obstacle that can be construed as a violation of the legal international order.” She added that work was “ongoing” on the proposals.
- European airlines, airports and air traffic controllers have made sweeping changes to their operations as the aviation industry tries to avoid another summer of disruption for passengers.
- “In general the whole of the industry is better prepared .
“In general the whole of the industry is better prepared . . . but you can never be complacent and relaxed,” said Johan Lundgren, chief executive of easyJet, the UK low-cost airline.
- Korean construction group Booyoung is offering workers a $ 75,000 bonus for each baby they produce, one of many eye-catching incentives on offer as politicians and companies grapple with the country’s demographic crisis.
- Chinese drug company Akeso Inc. (9926.HK) has pushed its way into profit in the biopharma industry’s most competitive arena, developing new ways to help the immune system defeat cancer.
- Traders are betting on a tighter copper market in coming months, as disappointment over China’s stumbling economic growth is overtaken by fears of a squeeze on global supplies.
- Lawmakers in US state capitals are seeking to stifle development of “lab-grown” tuna, pork and other animal proteins, taking a stand against a novel food technology backed by investors such as Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.
- The opposition was on course to score decisive mayoral victories against Erdoğan’s Justice and Development party (AKP) in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Bursa and Antalya, Turkey’s five biggest cities, according to initial results on Sunday’s race published by the Anadolu state news agency. About 98 per cent of ballot boxes had been counted by Monday morning.
- Iran’s network of proxies in the region — dubbed “the axis of resistance” — have since October engaged in exchanges of fire with Israel and attacked US forces and bases across the Middle East, leading to heightened fears of a broader regional **conflagration**.
- Post-financial crisis regulation meant some lenders would need “to **liquidate** their loans or find other ways to reduce their weight in real estate”, he added, whether by syndicating the debt, doing risk transfer deals — where other investors agree to take on the risk of losses — or ceasing new lending to the sector.
- The deal represents the first **bilateral** arrangement on AI safety in the world and comes as governments push for greater regulation of the existential risks from new technology, such as its use in damaging cyber attacks or designing bioweapons.
- Iran’s network of proxies in the region
Iran’s network of proxies in the region — dubbed “the axis of resistance” — have since October engaged in exchanges of fire with Israel and attacked US forces and bases across the Middle East, leading to heightened fears of a broader regional conflagration.
- Post-financial crisis regulation
Post-financial crisis regulation meant some lenders would need “to liquidate their loans or find other ways to reduce their weight in real estate”, he added, whether by syndicating the debt, doing risk transfer deals — where other investors agree to take on the risk of losses — or ceasing new lending to the sector.
- The deal represents the first bilateral
The deal represents the first bilateral arrangement on AI safety in the world and comes as governments push for greater regulation of the existential risks from new technology, such as its use in damaging cyber attacks or designing bioweapons.
- As long as banks match or exceed the requirements, they are free from Fed restrictions on how much of their earnings they can **pay out** to shareholders via dividends and share buybacks.
- Harvard University has been targeted by a legal challenge over the practice of favouring undergraduate applicants who are related to alumni or big donors, less than a week after the US Supreme Court curbed the use of race in college admissions.
- US electric vehicle start-up Rivian Automotive revealed stronger-than-expected production numbers a day after larger rivals Tesla and BYD reported robust deliveries, sending shares of the companies up sharply on Monday.
- Germany has delayed a decision about whether to extend the stationing of Patriot missile systems in Poland amid new tensions with Warsaw about how to repair jointly Leopard tanks engaged in Ukraine.
- Meta is expected to launch its own rival to Twitter as soon as Thursday in a move that threatens Elon Musk’s group as he faces a backlash from users over his management of the social media platform.
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the discussions. The new entity would be permitted to use the global Swift financial messaging system.
- Petrochemicals billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe has blamed Europe’s “suffocating bureaucracy” and environmental red tape for pushing companies to invest outside the bloc, admitting that he would not have agreed on a landmark €4bn investment in Belgium if he had known of the regulatory roadblocks in advance.The European Commission’s Green Deal, an ambitious push to decarbonise the EU, needed to also take into account the importance of supporting industry, Ratcliffe told the Financial Times, warning of the rising backlash from businesses towards Brussels’ “uncompetitive” policies.
- According to Hong Kong media reports, Dicky has since decided to cancel the piano segment from the concert saying that it wasn’t because it was too dangerous, but because not all the parts needed for the performance could be obtained.
- She joined a Xinjiang song and dance troupe after graduating from high school and later pursued a degree in acting at the Shanghai Theatre Academy.
- With her huge doe eyes and cherub cheeks, she looks like a doll. Her appearance soon became a trending topic on Weibo, with netizens marvelling at her natural beauty.
- Gillian, who has enjoyed a career resurgence after competing in 2022's Sisters Who Make Waves 3, looks like she hasn't aged a bit since her breakthrough role in 2002 TVB wuxia drama The Monkey King: Quest for the Sutra.
- Why would anyone in the right mind cast 42-year-old Hong Kong actress Gillian Chung, 42, to play the mother of a 28-year-old?
- In 2022, the supply of **condominiums** for sale in central Tokyo was just 10,800 units, according to consultancy Cushman & Wakefield, the lowest point for at least 20 years.
- This would contain the **pharmacological** building blocks for inoculations likely to be needed to counter any disease that might pose dangers on a pandemic scale.
- “Grocery is a concentrated market amongst the top 10 retailers, which **begs the question** of how valuable an aggregator will ultimately be,” Bernstein analysts wrote this month.
- That, at least, is the claim of foreign policy specialists Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman whose book, Underground Empire, tells the tale of America’s efforts to control the world economy by seeking out and manipulating a **subterranean** communications network of “tunnels and conduits”.
- At the recently concluded Hangzhou Asian Games, Wang clinched four gold medals, defeating Fan in the men's singles final. His performance continued as he secured the men's singles title at the WTT Star Contender Lanzhou event, defeating Ma Long 4-2. Wang's recent success led to his reclamation of the top spot in the latest world rankings, holding a 15-point lead over Fan. This marks the second time this year that Wang has ascended to the world No.1 spot in men's singles.
- "On the field, I am an athlete; off the field, I am just an ordinary person. I hope everyone can respect each other's privacy, maintain a certain distance, and give me some breathing space," reads the statement.
- Amazon is looking to tap generative AI to reignite excitement about its home devices, including the Alexa voice assistant, against a backdrop of job cuts in the company’s hardware division.
- US President Joe Biden met Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday for the first time since Israel’s prime minister returned to office, with the two leaders pledging to work together to advance the normalisation of Israel’s relations with Saudi Arabia.
- "We oppose the US’s abuse of the concept of national security to hobble Chinese companies. That discriminatory and unfair practice undermines the principle of free trade and international economic and trade rules, destabilizes the global industrial and supply chains and serves the interests of no one. The US needs to be aware that containing and suppressing China will not stop its development, but will only make China more determined and capable in pursuing self-reliance and tech innovation."
- On Tuesday, US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told US lawmakers that she was “upset” by news of the launch of Huawei’s Mate 60 Pro during her visit to China last month. “The only good news, if there is any, is we don’t have any evidence that they can manufacture 7-nanometer [chips] at scale,” she told a US House of Representatives hearing.
- The European Central Bank has raised interest rates to an all-time high in a bid to cool consumer prices, but signalled its cycle of increases was near its end as eurozone growth falters.
- Shares in chip designer Arm closed up a quarter at the end of its first day trading on the Nasdaq exchange on Thursday, valuing the SoftBank-backed company at more than $65bn.
- Four-fifths of FTSE 350 company boards have less time to focus on strategy because of increased corporate reporting requirements, according to a new survey.
- The unit, which has about 200 employees, is being sold to Creative Planning, an investment and retirement adviser. The division offers financial planning to well-off customers who are not super-rich, servicing individuals with accounts that tend to range from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars.
- China will suspend the import of aquatic products, including edible aquatic animals, originating from Japan starting from Thursday, said the General Administration of Customs (GAC) in an online statement.
- Japan started releasing nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, despite raging opposition from both at home and abroad.
- *No More Bets* is about a Chinese programmer and a model who, enticed by the promise of high-paying jobs, find themselves trapped in a foreign country as prisoners of a ruthless gang, and forced into online gambling fraud.
- Director Shen Ao, who attended the film's Beijing premiere, revealed that he studied over 10,000 cases and interviewed a variety of people, from victims to police officers, to gain inspiration for the movie.
- **Summarize the key points discussed by EOD.**
- The region’s labour market has proved more resilient than expected by economists, who had forecast a jobless rate for June of 6.5 per cent in a Reuters poll.