China’s leadership in the digital currency space is turning a larger spotlight on U.S. initiatives, but similar efforts stateside aren’t likely any time soon. With its entry into the still-sparsely populated world of central bank digital currency, China takes a society that already leans heavily on electronic payments and mainstreams it. This also gives the…
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Iron Ore Giant Fortescue Bets On Green Hydrogen In Zero Carbon Push
Fortescue Metals Group, an iron ore heavyweight supporting carbon-intensive steelmaking, has dived into the green hydrogen business in a mad dash to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030. The world’s No. 4 iron ore producer plans to start making “zero-emission” hydrogen using renewable energy as early as 2023 for export to Japan and other energy-hungry economies….
Sony, DoCoMo Test Remote Auto Test Drive Over 5G
Having a car in, say, Guam, and driving it from 1,500 miles away in Japan, all by 5G, sounded pretty theoretical. Until suddenly it wasn’t. The car, manufactured by the Sony Corporation and dubbed the New Concept Car SC-1, was out for testing with Docomo Pacific, the largest telco in Guam and the Northern Mariana…
Investing in Silver Still 40% Off The Peak
Investing in Silver demand has grown for the second year running in 2019, say leading analysts, with investor sentiment towards the metal turning positive as bullion prices have risen. Global sales of silver investment bars and coins will likely show “healthy gains” and rise 7% across full-year 2019, according to specialist consultancy Metals Focus, reaching…
The Fusion Energy Dream Is Inching Towards Reality
After decades of disappointingly slow but steady progress, the race for fusion energy dream is now fully on, with governments, scientific institutions and private enterprises pouring billions of dollars into this potentially world-altering technology. Fusion is the process that occurs in stars, such as our sun, when hydrogen atoms fuse together, producing helium — and…
The Push for Adopting Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles HFCV in Singapore
As Singapore seeks to move away from its dependence on gas towards renewable energy sources like solar, the transport sector is similarly undergoing the same shift towards alternative fuel sources. Alongside the increasing electrification in the transport sector, there has been renewed interest in the use of Hydrogen fuel cells vehicles, a move which may…
The Future of Hydrogen- Seizing Today’s Opportunities
This is a summary of the report prepared by the IEA for the G20 and Japan. The time is right to tap into hydrogen’s potential to play a key role in a clean, secure and affordable energy future. At the request of the government of Japan under its G20 presidency, the International Energy Agency (IEA)…
India’s Federal Bank Teams Up With Ripple For International Payments
As of early January 2019, Ripple had announced that it surpassed 200 partners as it adds 13 financial institutions as customers for its payment network, RippleNet. Ripple consolidating traditional financial markets is an interesting use case for blockchain for the real world. Federal Bank in India has partnered with blockchain payments company Ripple to facilitate…
Lessons For Forever – Jim Rogers
One of the most dangerous things you can do as an investor is to make money – because of what you might do next. And… has the world’s debt been put to good use? It doesn’t seem that way. Those are a few of the messages of legendary investor (and fellow Singapore resident) Jim Rogers,…
$80 Billion Bullet Train Scandal in Japan
A scandal threatens to put the brakes on Japan’s plan to build the world’s fastest train. To surpass the nation’s famous bullet train, the project incorporates magnetic-levitation technology that promises to cut journey times from Tokyo to Osaka by more than half, to just over an hour. The $80 billion project carries the government’s added…
India, Japan Draw Closer on China Unease
A meeting between the leaders of Japan and India in mid-November is set to build on security and economic cooperation to help counter China’s increasing sway in the Asian region. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet his Japanese counterpart, Yoshihiko Noda, in Tokyo in the middle of the month (Update: Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan…
China’s String of Pearls & India’s Look East
For years China has been pursuing its policy of a string of pearls; which meant having naval stations around the Indian subcontinent as a means of encircling India. The building of a port in the Sri Lankan town of Hambantota, Gwadar in Pakistan, courting the island states of Seychelles, Maldives, Mauritius and not to mention…
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