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GREEN: Trudeau should end war on plastics for sake of the environment
Breadcrumb Trail LinksOpinionNewsColumnistsCanadaHere’s the shocker: Meng shows that for 15 out of the 16 uses, plastic products incur fewer GHG emissions than their alternatives. Read that again. When considering...
Pro-Palestinian activists protest at Google developer conference amid Israel-Hamas war
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Dozens of protesters blocked the entrance of Google’s developer conference in Mountain View, Calif., for roughly 90 minutes on Tuesday, demanding that the tech giant drop...
Yen’s fragility raises spectre of a new currency war in Asia
AS THE yen plumbs new lows, some investors are pondering an almost unthinkable scenario in a region busy bolstering falling exchange rates – a series of competitive devaluations that...
Huawei’s pivotal role in the US-China tech war, from 5G to chips
WHEN the Trump administration blacklisted Huawei Technologies in 2019 over spying concerns, the move almost wiped out the Chinese company’s global smartphone business. Yet it bounced back with the...
China’s BYD shows effects of price war with weaker first-quarter earnings
CHINESE electric vehicle (EV) maker BYD posted its weakest quarterly profit growth since 2022 on Monday (Apr 29) while its revenue growth slowed to the lowest level in nearly...
BYD shares face earnings test as China’s EV price war heats up
AFTER getting a jump on competitors in the latest round of China’s electric-vehicle (EV) price war, BYD now faces a key test of proving that it can withstand the...
Volkswagen to keep China market share stable as price war rages
VOLKSWAGEN aims to keep its market share in China roughly stable until the end of the decade, the head of its China business said, betting heavy investment there will...
Oil futures fall as fears of a wider Middle East war fade
OIL futures fell on Monday as traders focused on market fundamentals, seeing little near-term risk that the Middle East conflict would impact supply.Brent crude futures settled at US$87.00 a barrel,...
