Category: Business

The RISE Riverine Community Resilience Challenge II, backed by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), invites startups with innovative solutions to address critical flood resilience issues. This challenge targets solutions that are capable of significantly improving disaster preparedness and recovery in flood-vulnerable regions across Western Virginia. Participants will pilot their innovations directly […]

Amazon is eyeing a $15 billion warehouse expansion in the U.S., which could bring up to 80 new logistics facilities to both urban and rural areas. The company is actively seeking capital partners to fund this ambitious expansion, with potential proposals being solicited, as reported by Bloomberg News on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources familiar with […]

The Indigenous Karen people and the Thai Lanna community of Thailand are concerned about plans to divert and dam the Yuam river and its branches, which could undo years of careful stewardship. Members of both communities spoke to a team from UN University ahead of the release of the 2025 Interconnected Disaster Risks report which tracks how […]

European pharmaceutical companies are sounding the alarm over the potential relocation of operations to the United States due to looming tariffs on the sector, as warned by US President Donald Trump. At a crucial meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) highlighted the risk […]

Unprecedented Volatility Fuels Copper Rally In an extraordinary display of market volatility, copper prices dropped below $8,500 per metric tonne during early trading on Monday, April 7, 2025. This sharp decline prompted a massive buying spree, particularly from Chinese buyers, who quickly seized the opportunity to secure copper at lower prices. Their actions triggered a […]

Apple Rushes to Avoid Price Hikes as Tariffs Loom In the final days of March, Apple flew five cargo planes loaded with iPhones and other products from India and China to the United States, seeking to avoid a major price hike triggered by new tariffs. The shipments, arriving over a span of three days, ensured […]

Global Infrastructure and Private Markets: A New Era The future of global infrastructure, particularly ports, is set to shape the world’s economy in the coming decades, according to BlackRock Chairman Laurence Fink. In his annual letter to investors, Fink emphasized that assets like data centers, power grids, and ports will be critical drivers of economic […]

Last week, a federal judge rejected the government’s motion to dismiss our Privacy Act lawsuit against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE). OPM is disclosing to DOGE agents the highly sensitive personal information of tens of millions of federal employees, retirees, and job applicants. This disclosure […]

António Guterres was responding to a journalist at the stakeout in UN Headquarters in New York, who asked him for reaction to the recent decision by United States President Donald Trump to impose a minimum ten per cent tariff on nearly every country in the world. Tariffs are a tax on imports coming into a […]

The “liberation day” tariffs announced by US president Donald Trump have one thing in common – they are being applied to goods only. Trade in services between the US and its partners is not affected. This is the perfect example of Trump’s peculiar focus on trade in goods and, by extension, his nostalgic but outdated […]