Remote, quiet but energy-rich: the coastal area of Lubmin in north Germany hosts the world’s most controversial gas pipeline. Nord Stream 2 stretches for 1,230 kilometres from Vyborg in Russia through the Baltic Sea to Lubmin in Germany, bypassing Ukraine and Poland.

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By Sangmi Cha and Josh Smith SEOUL - South Korean former president Roh Tae-woo, a decorated war veteran who played a pivotal but controversial role in the transition to democratic elections from rule by authoritarian leaders, has died, a Seoul hospital confirmed. The 88-year-old died on Tuesday, a Seoul National University Hospital official said, without citing the cause of death. Roh

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International companies are urging Hong Kong’s government to adopt a “living with Covid-19” strategy instead of its current “Covid-zero” policy, as they face difficulties retaining staff who want to travel overseas and return to the city without two or three weeks of quarantine.

HK’s Covid-zero rules killing off business confidence

MANILA – Presidential daughter Sara Duterte has put an end to speculation about her possible “substitution” run for president after a highly publicized meeting with leading candidate and former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. Marcos’ spokesperson Vic Rodriguez unconvincingly tried to portray the clearly choreographed meeting in Cebu, in the central region of Visayas, as “just another beautiful coincidence.

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Duterte-Marcos axis will be hard to beat in 2022

The Communist Party of China’s (CPC) Central Committee sixth plenary session scheduled for November 8-11 is expected to make a big bang “third historical resolution” that seeks to strengthen President Xi Jinping’s leadership and legacy.

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Xi spearheads a self-lauding ‘historical resolution’

Bharti Airtel, India’s second-biggest telecom operator, has decided to use the payments moratorium offered by the government. Vodafone Idea took up the offer last week. As part of a relief package for the telecom sector announced in September, the government came up with a four-year moratorium on payments of Adjusted Gross Revenue and spectrum dues.

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Some years ago, before my retirement, I offered the observation that the semiconductor industry had become a remarkably virtuous circle across the world. As everyone knows, in a virtuous circle, all participants win.

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Chip industry’s virtuous circle made vicious by Biden’s policy

The real estate game is all about “location, location, location.” The economic reform equivalent of this old maxim is “timing, timing, timing.” It’s here where economists worry Chinese President Xi Jinping may have erred. His bold moves to regulate sectors from technology to education and end China’s reliance on real estate are looking spectacularly ill-timed.

China’s big bang regulatory reforms look increasingly ill-timed

Iran backs talks with six major powers that are result-oriented, Iranian hardline President Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday, as Tehran and six powers struggled to overcome snags hampering the resumption of negotiations to revive a 2015 nuclear deal.

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