Residential buildings in Hong Kong, China on October 23, 2023. Vernon Yuen | Nurphoto | Getty Images Hong Kong’s leader John Lee this week eased the city’s decade-old residential property cooling measures — but questions remain on whether it’s enough to boost market sentiment and low transaction volumes for the private housing sector. “Although relaxation … Read more
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. A Lot of Influencer PR Packages Are Extremely Wasteful For more than a decade, an Australian company called Arafura Rare Earths has been looking for customers willing to buy rare earth metals from a mine under development in the nation’s Northern … Read more
Correspondent Katharine Houreld and photographer Arlette Bashizi traveled collectively throughout southeastern Congo, visiting industrial and artisanal mines within the nation’s three largest cobalt mining cities. Houreld is The Washington Submit’s East Africa bureau chief, primarily based in Nairobi, with tasks stretching from the Horn of Africa to the continent’s southern tip. Bashizi is a Congolese … Read more
NASA NASA cleared key hurdles that permit it to launch a spacecraft to the asteroid in October. The asteroid is considered made up of gold, iron and nickel, with its worth estimated at $10 quintillion. The spacecraft will launch on a SpaceX rocket, and head to the Major Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. NASA … Read more