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Chinese researchers have unveiled a hypersonic plane design to take cargo and passengers from Beijing to New York in about two hours, one-seventh of the time it currently takes to make the trip. “It will take only a couple hours…
Under the proposed Unregulated Deposit Schemes Bill, a person or institution running an unregulated deposit or Ponzi scheme will have to face seven years in jail. Cryptocurrencies have been kept outside the purvey of the legislation, but an expert told…
President Nicolas Maduro has announced that preliminary sales of Venezuelan cryptocurrency el petro have already reached $735 million. On February 21, Venezuela formally launched el petro, becoming the first country with its own oil-backed cryptocurrency. “We already saw the intentions to buy…
TOKYO (Sputnik) – South Korea and five Central American countries, namely Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, signed a free trade deal with a view to gradually eliminating duties on over 95 percent of goods within the next…
But who is “we”? What is “it”? And when will things be done? When you get past the raw and powerful emotions on display in the room with the president, you necessarily move beyond the vague promises of action. You…
Four Indonesian provinces have declared emergencies in anticipation of worsening forest fires that each year spread health-damaging haze across much of Southeast Asia. The National Disaster Mitigation Agency said Wednesday that emergency alerts in Riau and South Sumatra provinces on…
