China’s electric car market is booming but can it last?
And this is largely driven by government mandates and incentives, says Mr Hsieh. For more than a decade, the Chinese...
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Big and painful cuts needed to fix budget, says IFS
It calculates that, if the planned tax cuts are not reversed, the chancellor would have to cut spending on benefits,...
Ben Bernanke, former US Federal Reserve chief, wins Nobel Prize
"The measures that were undertaken rest on the ideas that we recognise today," said Stockholm University economist John Hassler, a...
Kwasi Kwarteng brings forward economic plan to 31 October
Providing reassurance on that score will likely mean confirming unpalatable news for others. For most economists reckon that, even if...
Pacific Island Fiji aims for a high-tech future
At the same time, Pacific Island states like Fiji are also having to navigate escalating competition between the US and...
What will happen if Britain has winter blackouts?
"We are thinking, for example, of older people with chronic health conditions who have to remain warm," says Caroline Abrahams,...
US ramps up curbs on chip sales to China
The US has previously barred sales of technology to specific Chinese companies, such as Huawei, on national security grounds. But...
UK defies climate warnings with new oil and gas licences
The licensing process will be fast-tracked in parts of the North Sea that are near existing infrastructure and so have...
Homeowners ‘tearing their hair out’ over rising rates and rents
"I really feel for my tenants," the 64-year-old says. "One of them is really struggling, she pays her rent in...
Inflation: Why food prices matter for the US midterm elections
"The future is very uncertain," says Jayson Lusk, agricultural economist at Purdue University. "To the extent that we see lower...
Former Uber security chief convicted for concealing a felony
Responding to the judgement, Dr Ilia Kolochenko, founder of ImmuniWeb, and a member of Europol Data Protection Experts Network, wrote,...
Rail strike: Only one in five trains set to run on Saturday
Daniel Mann, director of industry operations at the Rail Delivery Group which speaks for train companies, said: "These strikes continue...
Maiden Pharmaceuticals: WHO links Gambia deaths to India-made cough syrups
The WHO findings, announced by Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday, came after samples of each of the four cough...
Covid: Hong Kong to lure tourists with free air tickets
"The airport authority will finalise the arrangement with airline companies. Once the government announces it will remove all Covid-19 restrictions...
The farmers caught up in Taiwan’s tensions with China
Christina Lai, a junior research fellow at the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica, Taiwan's top research institution, says...
Faisal Islam: Is Truss’s growth plan running out of time?
For a start, it has never actually come about, because it has always been a forecast for future years (from...
Elon Musk, Twitter and the mysterious X app
Compared with its rivals, Twitter is a comparatively small platform with around 300m monthly users, and it has never experienced...
CEO Secrets: What’s a modern boss to wear?
Fiona Gordon of Ogilvy UK thinks this shift to casual could present some unexpected positives for women. "Women, you could...
