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China rockets to forefront of global space race with sea launch success South China Morning Post
China successfully launched a rocket into space from a civilian cargo ship at sea on Wednesday, becoming the first nation to fully own and operate a floating sea launch platform, a technology expected to significantly reduce the cost and risk of space missions. A Long March 11WEY rocket blasted off from the ship in the Yellow Sea at noon Beijing time, according to the China National Space Administration. About six minutes later, five commercial satellites and a pair of “technical experiment” probes – called Bufeng, or Wind Catchers – reached their designated orbits. The Wind Catchers will w…
WATCHING NOW Philippines ships back Canadian trash CityNews Vancouver
Dozens of containers full of Canadian garbage are headed back to Canada from the Philippines. Melissa Duggan with the details of the trashy dispute. May 30 …
Tim Cook says China has not targeted Apple despite an escalation in trade tensions CNBC
– “The Chinese have not targeted Apple at all, and, I don’t anticipate that happening, to be honest,” CEO Tim Cook told CBS News. – China on Saturday raised tariffs on billion worth of U.S. goods — that included slapping higher duties on more than 5,000 American products by as much as 25%. – A 25% tariff on an iPhone could potentially raise the smartphone’s price by more than a hundred U.S. dollars, making those devices a lot more expensive in China in yuan terms. China has not targeted Apple at all in the ongoing trade dispute between Beijing and Washington, according to CEO Tim Cook. …
Caritas Manila welcomes Philippines’ new anti-poverty law Angelus News
The social action arm of the Manila Archdiocese welcomed the passage of a law that aims to uplift the lives of poor people and address hunger in the Philippines …
China is not the source of our economic problems — corporate greed is CNN
Jeffrey Sachs is a professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. The opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author; view more opinion articles on CNN. China is not an enemy. It is a nation trying to raise its living standards through education, international trade, infrastructure investment, and improved technologies. In short, it is doing what any country should do when confronted with the historical reality of being poor and far behind more powerful countries. Yet the Trump administration is now aiming to stop China’s development,…
The Philippines Have Censored My Hero Academia in Some Really Weird Ways Comicbook.com
Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia has only become more popular in the last few years, and fans have come to love the series’ world and characters for their …
Despite tariffs, hotel operators double down on China expansion and eye Vietnam CNBC
– The latest data from the U.S. Commerce Department shows Chinese tourism to the U.S. has dropped for the first time in 15 years amid the ongoing trade war. – The U.S.-China tensions have emboldened U.S. hotel operators to double down on their expansions across China to ensure they get their brand in front of the important Chinese traveler. – Large hotel operators Marriott, Hilton and Hyatt have been aggressively expanding across China in 2019. A number of hotel CEOs at the NYU Hospitality Conference in New York this week said tariffs and heightened rhetoric between officials in Washington,…
Canada tries to avoid an all-out trash “war” with the Philippines CBS News
Environmental activists rally outside the Philippine Senate in Manila, Sept. 9, 2015, to demand that scores of containers filled with household rubbish be shipped back to Canada and to push for the ratification of the Basel Ban Amendment which prohibits the export of hazardous waste from developed to developing countries. Getty Canada will take back dozens of shipping containers full of trash from the Philippines “sooner than later,” a Philippine official said this week. Canada’s agreement to take back the garbage, which has been rotting for up to six years in Manila, may end a battle, but …
Look Who’s Winning the U.S.-China Trade War Bloomberg
Most people seem to think of trade as happening between only two countries. If tariffs reduce U.S. imports from China, many — including President Donald Trump — seem to assume that the affected industries will move production to the U.S. But that’s not how things work, which is why other countries might actually benefit from the U.S.-China trade war. Trade happens among a large network of countries, and this is even more true in the modern economy of fragmented global supply chains. Economists have long understood that in such a network, some countries could actually benefit from a reduct…
Fighting for brown-skinned, queer visibility in the Philippines Document Journal
Photographer Regine David wanted to show another side of the Philippines while shooting a menswear editorial featuring queer Filipino models, but the racially …