On China, US and Israel should talk tech, not trade

Despite the United States’ efforts to galvanize the West against China, competing interests between America and its closest democratic allies abound. The state of Israel is no exception: As Israel continues to develop its burgeoning, US$18 billion bilateral trade relationship with China, its international ports at Haifa and Ashdod remain persistent flashpoints between Israeli and American security experts. Since […]

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A way out of exchange-rate chaos

Part 1 of this series concluded that “currency hedging is not just costly and in some countries prohibitively so, preventing companies access to credit and grow, but it brings a misallocation of talents in a floating world.” Historically, countries have not managed exchange-rate gyrations well. Their experiences, Japan being prominent, show how accurate Paul Volcker was […]

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The future of ‘turquoise’ hydrogen is Japanese

TOKYO – Ebara, the Japanese industrial machinery and plant engineering company, is working on technology to produce environmentally friendly turquoise hydrogen. It is also promoting its method of gasifying and recycling plastic waste. “Turquoise” hydrogen is created using methane pyrolysis, the thermal decomposition of natural gas (mostly methane) into hydrogen and solid carbon that can […]

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Jail for men who helped smuggle suspects in Tradenation luxury goods scam out of Singapore in lorry

SINGAPORE: Two logistics workers who conspired to help smuggle the suspects in the multimillion-dollar Tradenation luxury goods scam out of Singapore in a lorry were sentenced to jail on Thursday (Sep 29). Mohamed Alias, 40, and 38-year-old Mohamad Fazli Abdul Rahman received a year’s jail each. They each pleaded guiltyContinue Reading