Workers unload trailers of wheat near Amritsar in northwestern Punjab state on April 16. NARINDER NANU / AFP It’s a brutal about-face. Narendra Modi decided to ban the export of wheat, Saturday May 14, with immediate effect. Ten days earlier, the Indian Prime Minister, on a tour of Europe, had assured his Western counterparts that … Read more
Laos inaugurates a high-speed line with an investment of 6 billion dollars by Beijing, at Yuxi Railway Station (China), on December 3, 2021. AP Eight years after their launch, in 2013, the new Chinese Silk Roads are not keeping people happy. While Laos inaugurated with great fanfare, Friday, December 3, a high-speed line for an … Read more
After the Rafale, will the A400M be the next aeronautical bestseller on the military export front? Long considered a cursed program due to aircraft design and industrialization difficulties, the Airbus military transport aircraft has just won over its second export customer. The Republic of Kazakhstan has ordered two aircraft, according to a statement from the … Read more
At the Koshi dam in Sunsari district, eastern Nepal, in August 2017. PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP Few countries where an appointment at the head of the national electricity supplier provokes so much enthusiasm: recalled, on August 11, by the new Nepalese Prime Minister, Sher Bahadur Deuba, to head again the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) , … Read more
Chilean President Sebastian Piñera at the inauguration of a solar power plant in Antofagasta, in the Atacama desert, on June 8, 2021. HANDOUT / AFP Chile, champion of renewable energies in Latin America, relies on green hydrogen, this gas obtained by electrolysis with clean, non-carbonated electricity. In November 2020, Chilean President Sebastian Piñera unveiled an … Read more