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File photo of Indonesia and Cambodia forge energy and mining cooperation for sustainable development During a recent meeting at the office of the Minister of Mines and Energy on June 25, 2024, Indonesian Ambassador Santo Darmosumarto expressed Indonesia’s commitment to collaborate with Cambodia to identify and map potential mineral reserves in the country. Coal remains an important trade product between Indonesia and Cambodia, but the Ambassador and Minister Keo Rattanak highlighted important opportunities for mutual cooperation in the new and renewable energy sectors. This partnership fits perfectly with their common objectives of combating climate change and reducing carbon emissions. “Indonesia…
Hapag-Lloyd has partnered with Danish technology company ZeroNorth to launch a digital bunker procurement and planning solution. Major German shipping operator Hapag-Lloyd has entered into a partnership with Danish technology company ZeroNorth aimed at launching a bunker procurement and planning solution. The partnership will collaborate to create a digital solution for Hapag-Lloyd to navigate the energy transition, reduce fuel costs and reduce service costs. ZeroNorth said the solution would set a “new industry standard” for end-to-end digitalization of bunker planning and procurement, delivering enhanced user experiences and features such as streamlined contract and port planning, tendering capabilities and a real…
MIT robotics teacher and I robot co-founder Rodney Brooks thinks artificial intelligence (AI) is awesome. It’s not as impressive as many of his supporters have claimed, Brooks told TechCrunch in a statement. interview published Saturday (June 29). “I’m not saying LLMs aren’t important, but we need to be careful about how we evaluate them,” Brooks said, referring to large language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The problem with generative AI, he added, is that it can perform certain tasks competently, it can’t do everything humans can do, and people tend to overestimate its capabilities. . “When a human sees an AI…
The foreign exchange (Forex) market is hugely popular, generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue every day for participating investors, dealers, and other financial institutions. The market for broker affiliate programs is expected to grow from USD 20 billion in 2023 to USD 36-39 billion by 2030, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.7% from 2024 to 2030. The growing popularity of Forex trading has led brokerage companies to develop a successful cooperative business model of expanding into new geographies and gaining more clients through Forex affiliate programs. What is Forex Affiliate? Marketers who recommend certain products…
Non-Chinese permanent residents of Hong Kong and Macau will be able to apply for a five-year travel permit to enter mainland China from July 10, Beijing said, with local authorities saying the move could motivate foreign businesses and talent to settle in the city.Multiple-entry permit holders will also benefit from self-service clearance at checkpoints once they complete procedures such as fingerprinting, the National Immigration Administration said Monday .Permit holders can enter the continent for short-term reasons, such as investments, visiting relatives, tourism, business, seminars and exchanges. They can stay up to 90 days per visit, but are prohibited from working,…
Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) party scored historic gains to win the first round of France’s parliamentary election, but the final outcome will depend on days of alliance-building before next week’s run-off vote.The RN and allies had 33% of the vote, followed by a leftwing bloc with 28% and President Emmanuel Macron’s centrists with just 20%, official results from the interior ministry showed on Monday.That was a huge setback for Macron, who had called the snap election after the RN trounced his ticket in the European Parliament elections last month. But whether the anti-immigrant, eurosceptic RN will…
Image source, Getty ImagesLegend, Airbus takes control of the part of the company that makes the wings and fuselage of its A220 planeItem informationAuthor, John CampbellRole, BBC News NI Business and Economics EditorJuly 1, 2024, 07:07 BSTUpdated 3 hours agoAirbus will take over part of Spirit Aerosystems’ operations in Belfast.Spirit is Northern Ireland’s largest manufacturing employer, with approximately 3,500 employees.Airbus takes control of the part of the company that makes the wings and fuselage of its A220 plane.There is uncertainty over the non-Airbus parts of the Belfast business, with Spirit saying it will sell them separately.This part of the business…
The Slovak prime minister was shot in the abdomen in May while greeting supporters in the town of Handlova. ADVERTISEMENTSlovakia’s deputy prime minister says the country’s prime minister, Robert Fico, will suffer ongoing health problems after surviving a shooting in May.Robert Kaliňák said Fico’s condition was gradually improving, but he would likely suffer musculoskeletal problems. “His health is still far from ideal. After a gunshot wound to the abdomen, these organs no longer function as they did at 17 or 30 years old. It’s still very irregular. As part of his regular rehabilitation, the doctors are doing everything they can…
The importance of building partnerships for the Indonesian transport and logistics industry to work together to achieve its goals was a key point raised by speakers during the HERE Directions Jakarta 2024 panel discussions. Collaborative partnerships drive innovation, improve operational efficiency, and enable companies to deliver more comprehensive solutions. Collaborative partnerships are a critical factor that will shape their supply chain success and build smart, sustainable solutions for the future of smart cities. Innovating beyond supply chain challenges Participants in the first HERE Directions Jakarta roundtable Can Indonesia’s end-to-end supply chain innovate beyond the challenges? they talked about how they…
For the first time, the far-right National Rally has topped the legislative polls in France, more than doubling its support, while President Emmanuel Macron has been left reeling. ADVERTISEMENTNational Rally, the far-right party led by Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, surged to first place in the first round of legislative elections on Sunday, according to a projection produced by Ipsos Talan.The National Rally gained 33.2% of votes cast, according to the estimated poll, a slight decrease on opinion polls last week which put the party and its allies at 36%.If confirmed, that would represent a significant success for Le Pen’s party,…