plan to task Bank Indonesia (BI) with ensuring employment through economic growth comes at a bad time for the central bank, which is struggling to defend the rupiah against strong selling pressure. A ...

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Power has been restored to hundreds of Toronto buildings after a fire at a transmission station caused outages around the financial core of Canada’s most populous city. The disruption began after ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - Some Southern Arizona residents continue reporting mail delays following a power outage at the USPS Tucson Processing and Distribution Center on the Southside. The Postal ...

Major Thai energy firms have divested their power plant assets to divert money to clean energy. Industry analysts say while the asset sales by Electricity Generating Plc (Egco), Banpu Power Plc and ...

Thailand's clean energy development was discussed at a recent state-private sector meeting, and can be successfully implemented if the nation focuses on solar power, according to an energy official ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to China last week saw the signing of some 40 documents and a joint statement on strengthening the Beijing-Moscow partnership. The visit, just days after US ...

The Trump administration plans to plow more than $800 million into a nationwide revival of coal power as the highly polluting fuel struggles to stand on its own in the marketplace. President Donald ...

Tom Morello, the Rage Against the Machine guitarist and activist, announced Wednesday that he has organized a protest festival to take place at Merriweather Post Pavilion on Oct. 3. “The mantra of the ...

Irish writer-director John Carney brilliantly brings together Rudd’s washed up wedding-singer and Jonas’s insecure ex-boyband superstar Once again, Irish writer-director John Carney delivers an ...

Harambe, the gorilla that turned into an online martyr after it was killed while dragging a child who fell into its zoo enclosure, would have turned 27 on Thursday — and the White House acknowledged ...

(Bloomberg) — Extreme weather will likely spur more than $20 trillion in global spending over the next decade, boosting sales and earnings for reinsurers and companies involved in energy efficiency ...