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OPEC to Russia – It’s Over: OilPrice.com

March 8, 2020
A meeting between OPEC and non-OPC members, more than 20 nations in all, resulted in no deal to cut oil production in order to boost prices. “OPEC and the Coronavirus have been pressuring Russia for weeks as oil prices have tumbled to sub-$50 per barrel, but Russia has so far decided it doesn’t...

A Small Stove With Big Ambitions

April 7, 2008
The invention of a tiny stove in India demonstrates the link between reduced carbon emissions and improved health – and how technology can contribute to slowing climate change. Global energy giant BP is producing and marketing Oorja, which means energy in Hindi, a small pellet stove that produces...

South China Morning Post: Weakened Yuan as Trade War Looms

June 28, 2018
The Chinese yuan is falling in value “because of expectations that the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) was shifting to a policy allowing the Chinese currency to depreciate amid an escalation of China-US trade tensions,” report Karen Yeung and Enoch Yiu for the South China Morning Post. “Against a...

Financial Times: China-Russia Rocket Talks Spark US Disquiet Over Growing Links

January 18, 2018
Companies from China and Russia are in talks over a sale of aerospace technology – specifically, Russia’s Energomash would license space engine technology to China’s Great Wall Industry. “Energomash’s engine, the RD-180, is so highly rated that it is used by the US for its own satellite launches —...

全球环保主义冲击中国

February 4, 2004

African Art on the Move

November 7, 2013
Visitors to Africa have long been intrigued by the continent's art, eager to introduce the work to global markets. Stone sculpture was revived in Zimbabwe, the former British colony known as Southern Rhodesia, in the 1960s after a British art adviser, Frank McEwen, became director of the...

Europe Divided Over Immigration, Work Ethics

June 5, 2014
Immigration, transfer of new technologies and evolving work ethics have put entire industries in flux. This has stirred anti-immigration fervor in some communities as demonstrated by big gains of far-right parties in the European Parliament elections. Author Pallavi Aiyar analyzes the forces of...

UNICEF: 300 Million Children Breathe Toxic Air

November 4, 2016
Air pollution is an increasing danger for children’s health. One out of every seven children, 300 million in all, are exposed to toxic levels of outdoor air pollution, reports the United Nations Children’s Fund, or UNICEF. “The World Health Organization, WHO, says air pollution kills about seven...
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