[ad_1] By Sudarshan Varadhan BANGKOK (Reuters) – Higher electricity demand in Laos due to cryptocurrency mining and erratic rainfall have led to power shortages, an advisor to its state-run utility said, revealing challenges to the nation’s prospects as a hydropower exporter to Southeast Asia. Laos is dubbed the battery of southeast Asia for its hydropower […]
[ad_1] With Donald Trump making promises to oil barons, the President has avoided making his Republican opponent’s connections to corporate America a feature of his reelection campaign. Ad Policy President Donald Trump arrives to deliver remarks about American energy production during a visit to the Double Eagle Energy Oil Rig, Wednesday, July 29, 2020, in […]
[ad_1] Gazans are on the move again as Israeli forces intensify bombardments. 13 May 2024. Credit: UNRWA Opinion by Ramzy Baroud (seattle, washington) Thursday, May 16, 2024 Inter Press Service SEATTLE, Washington, May 16 (IPS) – A major mistake we often commit in our analysis of the US political discourse on the Gaza war is that […]
[ad_1] Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Cambodia is pushing for an infrastructural renaissance, but it will need some help from its friends abroad to chip away at an estimated price tag of $36.6bn. That was the final sum calculated by the Cambodian government and published earlier this year in a 174-project master plan that would overhaul […]
[ad_1] Why are the City College protesters being charged with felonies that could land them up to nine years in jail—while Columbia students are facing much lighter sentences? Ad Policy Tensions rise between City College of New York students and police as the students set up encampments and protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza in […]
[ad_1] South Africa on Thursday urged the judges of the United Nations’ top court to order Israel to end its ground assault on Rafah in southern Gaza, saying it put Palestinian life in the enclave at imminent risk of destruction. The hearing at the International Court of Justice in The Hague came after South Africa […]
[ad_1] He invested only 1.6% of that sum – while spending millions on luxury cars, flights on private jets and lakefront mansions, according to court documents. Mr Pleterski was still in high school when he began dabbling in cryptocurrency, using it to make purchases in video games like Call of Duty. At the same time, […]
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[ad_1] A one-year-old, Ace Liam, a Ghanian, has broken the Guinness World Record holder for the youngest male artist. Liam’s attempt to break the Guinness World Record attempt commenced in Accra, Ghana, at the Soundout Premium Exhibition in the Museum of Science and Technology on 15 December 2023, concluding on 21 January 2024. The previous […]
[ad_1] After many weeks of suspense, the eagerly anticipated Students’ loan of the Bola Tinubu-led administration which seeks to offer educational loans to students and skilled workers will open its portal next Friday, May 24. A spokesperson of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), Nasir Ayitogo, in a statement, urged students to access the portal […]