Solar lights the way in fight against forced labor

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China's Solar Panel industry has been hit by US trade tariffs. Photo: AFP

With the European Commission poised to ban products with supply chains tainted by forced labor, the solar-energy industry is lighting the way for other businesses to follow. After more than a year in development, the trade body SolarPower Europe, working in partnership with Solar Energy UK, has launched the Solar Stewardship Initiative (SSI), a concrete plan to reinforce […]

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Eco-titans battle and rage for the green power future

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The battle of the billionaires has become the stuff of headlines. The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has gone head-to-head with Australia’s richest man, billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest. Musk, the founding investor in battery-powered car giant Tesla, has famously mocked hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles as “mind-bogglingly stupid.” Forrest has just placed a very large bet on […]

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Hangul is a Korean innovation rooted in tradition

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This past Sunday, October 9, was Hangul Day, a public holiday in South Korea. The sight of folks dancing in the streets in celebration of an alphabet speaks volumes about the significance of this innovation to the progress of Korea and its culture over the centuries. Yet some – including members of the new administration […]

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America’s Asian allies fear entrapment over Taiwan

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During the Donald Trump presidency, it was unsurprising that several US allies in Asia were concerned about the risk of abandonment — the possibility that Washington might not fulfill its alliance commitments. But allies can also fear entrapment — the risk that US actions might raise tensions, or even start a conflict, that allies would rather […]

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US, China already gunning for 6G military supremacy

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With 5G broadband networks still being rolled out worldwide, the US and China are racing for supremacy in next-generation 6G, with significant implications for future warfighting. An August report by the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) notes that China is following a centralized command model in applying 6G technology to military purposes. On the […]

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MHI, Hitachi reviving Japan’s nuclear power industry

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After Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, in late August, ordered the development and construction of new nuclear power plants, Japan’s nuclear power plant builders are quickly following up with new and safer reactors. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) on September 29 announced the conceptual design of a new light-water nuclear reactor with additional safety features. The […]

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Truck bomb explodes on Russia’s Crimea bridge

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The Kerch Strait Bridge, which links Russia proper to the annexed Crimean peninsula, was heavily damaged and at least partly cut in a dawn explosion. Footage, allegedly from CCTV on the bridge and circulating on social media, shows a truck driving across one of the bridge’s two road spans exploding. Subsequent footage and photos show […]

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Has Russia’s far-right outflanked Putin?

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Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 this year, the Kremlin has sought by every means to minimize the reality of war. The description of the invasion as a “special operation” and persecution of anyone who dared call it by any other name is intended to underline the supposedly temporary and limited nature of […]

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How Biden is and isn’t responding to Putin’s nuclear threat

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Joe Biden has warned that any use of tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine by Russia could lead to “Armageddon.” Speaking at a Democratic fundraising event in New York on October 6, the US president said the crisis was the closest the world had come to nuclear catastrophe in 60 years. “We have not faced the […]

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Taking the measure of Marcos Jr’s first 100 days

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MANILA – Ferdinand Marcos Jr has defied both his allies and critics in his first 100 days in office, shifting the Philippines in new political and diplomatic directions in a major policy reboot. After six years of disruptive populism under predecessor president Rodrigo Duterte, who lashed out at Western allies and railed against local big […]

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