Bloomberg Soaring heating and electricity bills are pushing Europeans to find hacks that will cut their energy use and reduce costs. Mats Johansson installed 30 solar panels with a production capacity of 13.5 kilowatts on his house in Halmstad, southwest Sweden earlier this year. The nation has some of the highest rates of energy consumption per capita in Europe — ...

  Bloomberg South Africa passed 200 days of power cuts in 2022 on Tuesday, with more to come. Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. said it will ramp up power cuts from so-called stage-1 load shedding, where it removes around 1,000 megawatts from the grid, to stage 3 from 4 pm local time until 5 am for the rest of the week. ...

  Bloomberg With China’s massive construction sector still in a funk and the US and Europe likely heading into recessions, India has emerged as a savior for flagging global steel demand. Poised to overtake China as the world’s most populous country next year, India is in the midst of a building boom. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking to modernise ...

  Bloomberg PLDT Inc is in talks with suppliers and vendors to cancel some projects and seek discounts as the Philippines’ biggest phone company by revenue aims to cut its 48-billion peso ($860 million) spending overrun. “The discussion also includes the possible replacement of certain projects that will be cancelled, with new projects that will improve revenue growth and customer ...

  Bloomberg India’s top investigating agency arrested the founder of Videocon Group Venugopal Dhoot, after it arrested Chanda Kochhar, a former chief executive officer at ICICI Bank Ltd, and her husband Deepak Kochhar on charges related to alleged improper lending. Dhoot was called in for questioning and arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), according to his lawyer Sandeep ...

  Bloomberg Profits at industrial firms in China declined in the first 11 months of the year, as production slowed and factory-gate prices fell amid Covid disruptions. Industrial profits in the January-November period fell 3.6% from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said. That compared with a decline of 3% in the first 10 months of the ...

  Bloomberg Apple faces about $98 million in back taxes in Japan, a bill that appears to be tied to bulk sales of duty-free devices to foreign tourists, Nikkei reported. Japan’s tax-free shopping for visitors staying less than six months doesn’t apply to purchases for resale purposes, according to the report. At least one transaction at an Apple store involved ...

Bloomberg Japan will require negative Covid-19 test results for travellers coming from China, as the country of 1.4 billion throws open its borders from January 8 and abandons its Covid Zero policy at a rapid pace. The policy will take effect from December 30, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters in Tokyo. Those who have been in mainland China within ...

Bloomberg South Korea sent drones across the border into North Korea for the first time, an unprecedented tit-for-tat military move after Kim Jong-un’s regime dispatched five unmanned aerial vehicles into its air space. The exchange of drones, which briefly stopped flights from taking off at major airports near Seoul, came as Kim opened a major political meeting to set security, ...

Bloomberg Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Ukraine must surrender or face continued war, even as Moscow’s troops have been forced to retreat in a series of damaging defeats. In an interview with the state-run news service Tass, Lavrov said Ukraine must cede sovereignty over territories annexed by Russia since President Vladimir Putin’s February 24 invasion. He reiterated unfounded claims ...