As the bustling city of San Roque faces a major development overhaul, its urban poor communities are pushing back and fighting for their housing rights
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The crisis and scandal swirling around India’s mega-powerful Adani Group heightened this week as hundreds of members of India’s opposition parties took to the streets to demand an investigation into allegations by a US. short-seller against the conglomerate. It triggered the Adani Group share price to go into freefall. Market losses have now exceeded US$110 […]Continue Reading
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A huge white balloon equivalent in size to three buses drifted from China over Alaska and Canada, and then over Montana and across the US continent before reaching the Carolinas coast. At that point, the Pentagon deemed it safe to send a couple of jet fighters supported by a fuel tanker to bring down the […]Continue Reading
What is activist short selling? Hindenburg Research’s actions are controversial, but they aren’t necessarily illegal nor unethical, says a finance professor.Continue Reading