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Wizz Air achieves lowest ever annual carbon intensity result

  Abu Dhabi / Gulf Time Wizz Air, Europe’s fastest growing and most environmentally sustainable airline globally, reports that its average carbon emissions for 2022 amounted to 55.2 grams per passenger/km, 15.4% lower compared to the year of 2021, and the lowest ever recorded by the airline in one calendar year. Wizz Air operates the lowest carbon emissions per passenger/km ...

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Millions of Chinese travel back home

Bloomberg Chinese people are traveling in larger numbers domestically as the nation’s key holiday season kicks off, a sign that the end of Covid Zero is giving way to a rebound in economic activity. Some 34.7 million trips within the country were made by air, road, rail or water, according to the Ministry of Transport. An additional 35.4 million trips ...

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Jetstar flight makes emergency landing in Japan on bomb threat

  Bloomberg A Jetstar Airways Pty plane carrying 136 passengers made an emergency landing in central Japan after receiving a bomb threat, public broadcaster NHK reported, citing police and airport personnel. Jetstar received a phone call at around 6:20 am Tokyo time from what appeared to be a man in Germany who said he had put a plastic bomb on ...

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Alibaba leads China tech gains as regulatory woes ease further

  Bloomberg The page has finally turned for Chinese tech stocks, as the end of a years-long regulatory crackdown revives demand for an industry once dubbed “uninvestable.” The Hang Seng Tech Index jumped 3.2% Monday, led by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., after a top central bank official said the clampdown on the Internet sector was drawing to a close. The ...

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Taiwan passes its chips act, offers tax credits to chipmakers

  Bloomberg Taiwanese lawmakers have passed new rules that let local chip firms turn 25% of their annual research and development expenses into tax credits, part of efforts to keep cutting-edge semiconductor technologies at home and maintain the island’s technology leadership. Officials there have repeatedly said they will ensure the latest chip technologies remain in Taiwan, a point that has ...

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India mulls lifting rice export curbs as supply improves, prices stabilise

  Bloomberg India, the world’s biggest rice exporter, is likely to lift restrictions on grain shipments in a move that would mark a further easing of a global wave of food protectionism after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Authorities are actively considering removing curbs on some rice exports as domestic prices are stable, according to a person familiar with the matter. ...

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Pakistan seeks $8b to rebuild after floods

  Bloomberg Pakistan has appealed to the global community for $8 billion in three years to help it rebuild after devastating floods that left a third of the nation inundated in the summer. The South Asian nation needs a total of $16.3 billion to rebuild houses and farms along with rehabilitate people impacted by the floods, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ...

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China, Pfizer hit Paxlovid price deadlock amid Covid surge

  Bloomberg Talks to negotiate a lower price for Pfizer Inc.’s Covid antiviral pill Paxlovid in China didn’t pan out, the health authority said, creating a quandary for the government amid a rampant outbreak in the world’s most populous nation. Pfizer and the government agency that oversees the state medical insurance program failed to agree on a further cut on ...

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