A small but growing coterie of Chinese companies are betting on a bright future for plant-based meat products as consumers take their health more seriously in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. BEIJING: A small but growing coterie of Chinese companies are betting on a bright future for plant-based meat […]
Day: September 14, 2020
WASHINGTON: An official in the US state of South Dakota reported hitting a deer with his car, when in fact he struck and killed a pedestrian whose body was not found until the next day, authorities said yesterday. Jason Ravnsborg, a 44-year-old elected official who serves as the state’s attorney […]
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has signed off on a two-year extension of a deal with China on the appointment of bishops that critics have condemned as a sell-out to the communist government, a senior Vatican source said yesterday. The two-year provisional deal, which gives the pope the final say on […]
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un inspects a flood-hit site in Taechong-ri, Unpha County, North Hwanghae Province, North Korea in this picture released September 11, 2020. SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un praised his military for its prompt efforts to rebuild towns hit hard by typhoons and summer floods, state […]
China’s finance ministry said on Tuesday it will extend existing tariff exemptions for 16 products from the United States including lubricants, whey and fish meal by an additional year. BEIJING: China’s finance ministry said on Tuesday it will extend existing tariff exemptions for 16 products from the United States including […]
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates yesterday granted emergency approval for use of a coronavirus vaccine, six weeks after human trials in the Gulf Arab state started. A phase III trial of a Covid-19 inactivated vaccine developed by Chinese state-owned pharmaceutical company Sinopham began in the UAE in July and is […]
Oil prices inched lower on Tuesday as a bleaker outlook for global fuel demand prompted fresh selling, but short-covering ahead of a meeting later this week of OPEC and its allies, known as OPEC+, limited losses. TOKYO: Oil prices inched lower on Tuesday as a bleaker outlook for global fuel […]
SYDNEY: Australia’s Victoria state, at the centre of the country’s latest coronavirus outbreak, reported on Tuesday no deaths from Covid-19 in more than two months fuelling optimism of a further easing of restrictions in the state. Australia’s second-most populous state said new cases nudged higher to 42 in the last […]
WILMINGTON: Joe Biden branded President Donald Trump a “climate arsonist” yesterday for failing to acknowledge global warming’s role in deadly wildfires sweeping the western United States, while Trump said the crisis stemmed from lax forest management. Dozens of conflagrations have raged with unprecedented scope across more than 1.6 million hectares […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan said yesterday he would like convicted rapists to be publicly executed or chemically castrated, reacting to a question on the rape of a woman on a highway last week that has caused uproar in the South Asian nation. Last week, a mother of two […]