The Lesson From BYD’s EV Takeover- Don’t Discount China

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Here in the U.S., we hear a lot about how legacy automakers are racing to catch up to Tesla and capture a piece of the growing electric vehicle market. Tesla has a head start, but GM, Ford, and Stellantis have poured billions into their respective efforts to catch up.

In the glob…

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The Solar Power Industry Is In Trouble

A decade ago, someone knocking on your door to sell you solar panels would have been selling you solar panels. Now, they are probably selling you a financial product—likely a lease or a loan. 

Mary Ann Jones, 83, didn’t realize this had happened to her until she received a call last year from GoodLeap, a financial technology company, saying she owed $52,564.28 for a solar panel l…

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China’s Lunar New Year Holiday Threatens a Grim Toll

Harry Li is conflicted. Ideally, the law student wants to spend the Lunar New Year holiday in his home village in northern China’s Hebei province, but he is afraid of spending more than 12 hours on crowded trains and buses lest he brings COVID-19 to his elderly parents, who have not been vaccinated. “It’s been three years since I’ve been home [for Lunar New Year],”…

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What Researchers Have Learned About Whether it’s Possible to ‘Cure’ HIV

It’s the news that the HIV community has been waiting four long decades for: the hint that maybe, just maybe, HIV can be cured.

Dr. Xu Yu, a principal investigator at the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT and Harvard, as well as an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, had to check and recheck her results to be sure. In one of her patients, …

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Chanel publishes plan for fighting climate change


Chanel has published a report on its eco-sustainability strategy

Chanel, a signatory of last September’s Fashion Pact, has announced its intention of aligning with the goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, aimed at limiting the planet’s mean global temperature increases to 1.5° Celsius. To do so, the label has identified four…

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Boohoo releases international factory list

The list details around 1,100 factories following an extensive period of mapping and auditing starting in 2020.It comes as the company also said that the 17 recommendations from the Independent Review were broken down into 34 deliverables as part of its Agenda for Change. So far, it has completed 28 of these. The remainder are “expected to be completed in the coming months”.

It also s…

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Deloitte says luxury industry M&A deals grew by less than 3% in 2022

In 2022, 292 M&A deals were finalised in the luxury industry, as opposed to 284 in 2021, only eight more, a 2.8% increase. One notable operation last year was the $2.3 billion acquisition of the Tom Ford label by US beauty giant Estée Lauder. M&A deals in the personal luxury goods sector accounted for 43.2% of the industry’s total, and their number was down by 30 last yearคำพูดจา…

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Amazon hands out shipping software to merchants, including on rival sites

The company is ending monthly fees of Veeqo, a shipping software firm it recently bought, for sellers including when they fulfill orders via rival platforms like Shopify Inc, eBay Inc or Etsy Inc.D.A. Davidson analyst Tom Forte said of Veeqo, “The acquisition should improve Amazon’s ability to compete against Shopify,” which helps merchants set up online stores and sell elsewhere. Still, he sai…

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European clothing imports exceed pre-crisis levels

Asia accounts for 75.8% of European clothing imports in 2022, a share that is stable compared to 2019. After stagnating in 2020 and 2021, imports from the leading supplier, China, exploded by 32% over one year, but only rose by 7.7% compared to 2019.After two years of yo-yoing, Bangladesh’s imports in 2022 show a rise of 52% year-on-year to a level 23.4% higher than before the crisis. Turkey, t…

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California officially bans fur

“The year 2023 marks a historic step forward for California with the implementation of a law that truly represents the values of our constituents,” said assemblymember Friedmanคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. “Californians do not want to see animals live and die in cruel ways for n…

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