China is stepping up restrictions on the production, sale and use of single-use plastic products, according to the state planner, as it seeks to tackle one of the country’s biggest environmental problems. Vast amounts of untreated plastic waste are buried in landfills or dumped in rivers. The United Nations has identified single-use plastics as one of the world’s biggest environmental challenges. The national development and reform commission and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, which issued the policy, said plastic bags would be banned in all of China’s major cities by the end of...…China is stepping up restrictions on the production, sale and use of single-use plastic products, according to the state planner, as it seeks to tackle one of the country’s biggest environmental problems. Vast amounts of untreated plastic waste are buried in landfills or dumped in rivers. The United Nations has identified single-use plastics as one of the world’s biggest environmental challenges. The national development and reform commission and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, which issued the policy, said plastic bags would be banned in all of China’s major cities by the end of...WW…

The logos of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google in a combination photo from Reuters files(Reuters) — Concerned that big tech companies are unfairly engaging in potential anti-competitive behavior, the Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday it ordered Alphabet’s Google unit, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft to provide information on mergers that were too small to report to antitrust regulators.The queries come as the Justice Department, the FTC, state attorneys general, and the House Judiciary Committee are investigating the big tech platforms, which are accused of unfairly using...…The logos of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google in a combination photo from Reuters files(Reuters) — Concerned that big tech companies are unfairly engaging in potential anti-competitive behavior, the Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday it ordered Alphabet’s Google unit, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft to provide information on mergers that were too small to report to antitrust regulators.The queries come as the Justice Department, the FTC, state attorneys general, and the House Judiciary Committee are investigating the big tech platforms, which are accused of unfairly using...WW…

President Donald Trump ordered a drone strike that killed a top Iranian military commander last month in response to past attacks, the White House said in a memo released on Friday, despite previous administration assertions that it was due to an imminent threat.As required by law, the administration sent Congress an unclassified justification for the strike on Jan. 2 that killed Qassem Soleimani at the airport in Baghdad. The strike, and Iran's retaliation, raised fears of wider war and frustrated some lawmakers who said Trump had given them shifting justifications for the attack."The...…President Donald Trump ordered a drone strike that killed a top Iranian military commander last month in response to past attacks, the White House said in a memo released on Friday, despite previous administration assertions that it was due to an imminent threat.As required by law, the administration sent Congress an unclassified justification for the strike on Jan. 2 that killed Qassem Soleimani at the airport in Baghdad. The strike, and Iran's retaliation, raised fears of wider war and frustrated some lawmakers who said Trump had given them shifting justifications for the attack."The...WW…

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An Iranian lawmaker offered a $3 million reward to anyone who killed U.S. President Donald Trump and said Iran could avoid threats if it had nuclear arms, ISNA news agency reported on Tuesday amid Tehran's latest standoff with Washington.U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood dismissed the reward as "ridiculous," telling reporters in Geneva it showed the "terrorist underpinnings" of Iran's establishmentskip- Haaretz Weekly Ep. 57Tensions have steadily escalated since Trump pulled Washington out of Tehran's nuclear agreement with world powers in 2018 and reimposed U.S. sanctions. The...…An Iranian lawmaker offered a $3 million reward to anyone who killed U.S. President Donald Trump and said Iran could avoid threats if it had nuclear arms, ISNA news agency reported on Tuesday amid Tehran's latest standoff with Washington.U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood dismissed the reward as "ridiculous," telling reporters in Geneva it showed the "terrorist underpinnings" of Iran's establishmentskip- Haaretz Weekly Ep. 57Tensions have steadily escalated since Trump pulled Washington out of Tehran's nuclear agreement with world powers in 2018 and reimposed U.S. sanctions. The...WW…

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Taiwan is rolling out a mobile phone-based 'electronic fence' that uses location-tracking to ensure people who are quarantined stay in their homes. Taiwan's phone-based monitoring system is believed to be the first to use mobile phone tracking to track and enforce quarantines through location data. 'The goal is to stop people from running around and spreading the infection,' said Jyan Hong-wei, head of Taiwan's Department of Cyber Security, who leads efforts to work with telecom carriers to combat the virus. Taiwan has launched an 'electronic fence' program that will track people in...…Taiwan is rolling out a mobile phone-based 'electronic fence' that uses location-tracking to ensure people who are quarantined stay in their homes. Taiwan's phone-based monitoring system is believed to be the first to use mobile phone tracking to track and enforce quarantines through location data. 'The goal is to stop people from running around and spreading the infection,' said Jyan Hong-wei, head of Taiwan's Department of Cyber Security, who leads efforts to work with telecom carriers to combat the virus. Taiwan has launched an 'electronic fence' program that will track people in...WW…

HSBC aims to shift $20 billion worth of assets to a new blockchain-based custody platform by March in one of the biggest deployments yet of the widely hyped but still unproven technology by a global bank. The platform, known as Digital Vault, will give investors real-time access to records of securities bought on private markets, HSBC told Reuters, and seeks to capitalize on booming interest in such investments by yield-hungry investors. Banks and other financial firms have invested billions of dollars into finding uses for blockchain, a digital ledger that can be instantly and...…HSBC aims to shift $20 billion worth of assets to a new blockchain-based custody platform by March in one of the biggest deployments yet of the widely hyped but still unproven technology by a global bank. The platform, known as Digital Vault, will give investors real-time access to records of securities bought on private markets, HSBC told Reuters, and seeks to capitalize on booming interest in such investments by yield-hungry investors. Banks and other financial firms have invested billions of dollars into finding uses for blockchain, a digital ledger that can be instantly and...WW…