Tuesday , 16 December 2025

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China can help turn the lights on

Last weekend, officials in Puerto Rico announced that they’re pulling the plug on a controversial $300 million contract to rebuild the island’s electrical grid after Hurricane Maria. The previous contractor, Whitefish Energy Holdings LLC, a Montana company with just two full-time employees prior to the award, will leave the island within 30 days, while officials try to find an alternative …

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The wrong way to lure technology companies

Hong Kong has tried just about everything to attract technology companies. It has incubators and accelerators, hubs and clusters, a Cyberport and an InnoCentre. The government has even established a lavish fund to invest in cutting-edge companies. Yet all this has produced nearly no startups of note. Don’t expect its latest idea to fare much better. Hong Kong’s securities regulator …

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Defend US democracy with digital transparency

As a response to the Russian campaign to sow discord in the 2016 presidential election, the so-called Honest Ads Act is wholly inadequate. It is also entirely necessary. The legislation, introduced last week by Democratic senators Mark Warner of Virginia and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, requires online platforms with at least 50 million monthly users — think Facebook, Google and …

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