LONDON: Britain will offer record support for new offshore wind farms in an upcoming auction after the process failed to attract bidders for the technology last year. The government set a budget of just over ￡1bil( US$ 1. 3bil) for renewable energy, with ￡800mil a year to support the next generation of offshore wind farms, according to a budget document that confirmed an earlier Bloomberg report. The total is three times bigger than any previous support packages. The record amount is the latest

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, center, attends a Cabinet meeting in Tokyo on Feb.... The disapproval rating rose 0.8 point to 50.6 percent, the highest level on record since the launch of the Suga Cabinet last September, a sign of public discontent with the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic.... Nineteen percent still believe that the Paralympics should be canceled, the survey said....

LONDON, June 10( Xinhua)--Despite the government's support packages, including a latest one on housing, the cost-of-living crisis continues to rage in Britain.A survey published by the Bank of England( BoE) on Friday showed that the public's expectations for the rate of inflation were at record highs. Median expectations for what inflation will be in the coming year stood at 4.6 percent, up from 4.3 percent in February and at their highest level since 1999, according to a quarterly survey conduc

Open this photo in gallery Ontario Premier Doug Ford listens to a question during a press conference announcing the enhanced COVID-19 vaccine certificate system at Queen's Park in Toronto on Sept.... 1. Tijana Martin/ The Canadian PressOntario is reporting a record spending increase over the last fiscal year as it fought the COVID-19 pandemic.It says program expenses in 2020-21 were$ 169 billion, up$ 16.7 billion from the previous year. The figures are part of the government’s report on its 202

PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia’s Covid-19 pandemic cases reached new heights once again as the country logged a record 21, 668 cases in 24 hours. The Health Ministry also reported 318 deaths, of which a staggering 93 were brought-in-dead( BID) cases. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said that 97.9% of yesterday’s new cases were mild and asymptomatic ones. Some 2.1% or 440 cases fell into Categories 3, 4 and 5.Dr Noor Hisham said 87.4% of the new infections comprised unvaccinated peop

PETALING JAYA: Two new clusters have been recorded, contributing 29 cases out of the 5, 828 new Covid-19 infections, says the Health Ministry. The 29 new cases originated from two workplace clusters – the Jalan Sentol Kluang cluster( 10) in Johor and Blok 03 cluster( 19) in Sabah. The total number of active clusters is now 557. The figures were disclosed by Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah in the ministry’s daily Covid-19 update yesterday. Malaysia’s cumulative Covid-19 ca

PETALING JAYA: A record number of 18 Malaysian universities were included in the Times Higher Education( THE) World University Rankings 2022, compared to 15 last year. The three new additions to the rankings are Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris( 801-1000), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu( 1201+) and Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia( 1201+). The latest edition of the global university rankings also saw Universiti Teknologi Petronas( UTP) move up into the world’s top 600 for the first time. Ca

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CLICK TO ENLARGEPETALING JAYA: Budget 2022, which will be tabled in the parliament on Friday, is expected to remain expansionary, as the government seeks to support Malaysia’s economic growth. This could imply an elevated level of fiscal deficit as well as higher federal debt next year. According to Kenanga Research’s projection, the fiscal deficit could rise to 6.9% of gross domestic product( GDP) in 2022 from the estimated 6.2% of GDP this year. The brokerage noted its projection for a higher

HANOI: Cashew firms hope to receive more support from state agencies to develop raw material areas in Cambodia and southern Laos, the Vietnam Cashew Association( Vinacas) says. Though Vietnam was the fourth largest cashew producer in the world, the country’s cashew output only met about 12% of the needs of processing enterprises, the association said, adding that the sector imported a record quantity of 2.9 million tonnes of raw cashew in 2023.A report from the Agriculture and Rural Development