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Russia joins global hydrogen race with planned exports to Asia

Posted on March 30, 2021March 30, 2021By Editor

Russian energy giant Gazprom is planning to start hydrogen exports to China, South Korea and Japan, the company’s First Deputy Oleg Aksyutin wrote in his column in the latest issue of business and science magazine Energy Policy. … Read More >Russia joins global hydrogen race with planned exports to Asia

USA

Biden Condemns Atlanta Shootings, Urges Public to ‘Speak Out’ Against Anti-Asian Violence

Posted on March 20, 2021March 20, 2021By Editor

US President Joe Biden and US Vice President Kamala Harris have both traveled to Atlanta, Georgia, to meet with Asian American leaders in the wake of the deadly shooting rampage that targeted three massage parlors. Six of the eight victims were of Asian descent. … Read More >Biden Condemns Atlanta Shootings, Urges Public to ‘Speak Out’ Against Anti-Asian Violence

Business

‘We said: Inshallah’: US sanctions fail to prevent Iran from selling record amount of crude to energy-hungry China

Posted on March 9, 2021March 9, 2021By Editor

Iran has reportedly managed to ship record volumes of oil to China below the radar of the US economic penalties that have banned the Islamic republic from selling its crude to China, India, Japan and South Korea since 2018. … Read More >‘We said: Inshallah’: US sanctions fail to prevent Iran from selling record amount of crude to energy-hungry China

Business

Iran to join LNG race in Asia with huge North Pars development

Posted on March 4, 2021March 4, 2021By Editor

Iran is looking for a piece of Asia’s growing LNG market by turning its North Pars gas field into a major producing asset. … Read More >Iran to join LNG race in Asia with huge North Pars development

Russia

Russia’s Asian path may benefit stability in Europe by forcing declining EU to deal with Moscow as it is not as it wants it to be

Posted on January 2, 2021January 2, 2021By Editor

After the fall of communism, the NATO powers expected Russia to fall into line and Westernize, but without the prospect of Western integration. But that plan has blown up in their faces. … Read More >Russia’s Asian path may benefit stability in Europe by forcing declining EU to deal with Moscow as it is not as it wants it to be

World

WHO vaccination scheme at ‘very high’ risk of failure, leaving poor nations without Covid-19 shots until 2024 – report

Posted on December 16, 2020December 16, 2020By Editor

Chances are “very high” that the global program to deliver coronavirus vaccines to poor countries will flop, forcing billions of people to wait for their shots at least until 2024, internal papers seen by Reuters have revealed. … Read More >WHO vaccination scheme at ‘very high’ risk of failure, leaving poor nations without Covid-19 shots until 2024 – report

Asia & Pacific

Asian nations ‘won’t let anyone in without a vaccination,’ AirAsia CEO believes

Posted on December 10, 2020December 10, 2020By Editor

Speaking at a CAPA Center for Aviation event on Wednesday, AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes said that people traveling to Asian countries could be required to have received a Covid-19 vaccination before entry. … Read More >Asian nations ‘won’t let anyone in without a vaccination,’ AirAsia CEO believes

Journalism & Mass media

Biggest trade deal in history excludes United States

Posted on November 23, 2020November 23, 2020By Editor

Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Beijing-based journalist Ian Goodrum about the recent signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership in Asia. … Read More >Biggest trade deal in history excludes United States

Business

Lion’s share of Russia’s Arctic LNG destined for Asia

Posted on October 13, 2020October 13, 2020By Editor

Russian gas producer Novatek has announced plans to ship 80 percent of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its Arctic LNG 2 plant to Asian markets via the Northern Sea Route. … Read More >Lion’s share of Russia’s Arctic LNG destined for Asia

Asia & Pacific

WHO warns young people with no or mild symptoms driving coronavirus spread in Asia-Pacific region

Posted on August 20, 2020August 20, 2020By Editor

The spread of coronavirus in the Asia-Pacific region is increasingly being driven by people in their 20s, 30s and 40s, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. … Read More >WHO warns young people with no or mild symptoms driving coronavirus spread in Asia-Pacific region

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