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...China: The annual gathering of the country’s rubber-stamp parliament ends today....
...Synthetic biology can be exploited to create deadly low-cost pathogens....
...The approach vindicated those JSR executives who had feared it would be vulnerable to a bid after it completed the sale of its synthetic rubber business in April 2022. Merck declined to comment....
...All the fentanyl needed to supply the US for one year weighs the equivalent of 5 tonnes and would easily fit into one lorry, according to researchers at Rand Corporation....
...The rubber hits the road on trade You might think this is already the case, given the last several years of US-China decoupling....
...He is based in the Netherlands and works on specialist looms in a textile laboratory in Tilburg, where he mixes natural yarns, like alpaca and wool, with synthetics such as lurex and even rubber — “combinations...
...Maybe the time has come for more American corporations to separate the role of CEO from that of board chair?...
...Wobbly, overleveraged US corporations such as Diebold Nixdorf and Incora are flocking to Houston, the new go-to place for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy....
...Legal risk looks zero sum, at least at the corporation level, since the deal’s reverse termination clause capped Musk’s potential damages at $1bn....
...This is an audio transcript of the FT News Briefing podcast episode: ‘A Latin American common currency?’ Marc FilippinoGood morning from the Financial Times....
...“The Americans realised long ago that high-altitude balloons were a ‘sweet spot’ for intelligence gathering.”...
...“Where the rubber would really meet the road is if we had a crisis situation where there was a real possibility of an imminent conflict,” he says....
...Growing up close to the rainforest in a small village community of rubber tappers, she witnessed the devastation of deforestation first-hand and has dedicated her life to fighting it....
...But possibly the most difficult task facing him was dealing with the company’s original elastomer business, focused on making synthetic rubber for tyres....
...Yes, this thing smells like burnt rubber....
...Malaysian company Supermax, a supplier of rubber gloves to Britain’s NHS health service, has been hit by a US customs order banning its products from the American market over allegations it uses forced labour...
...But it took until the 1970s for “no-till” principles to gain traction among American farmers....
...The next day, however, CBP ordered the seizure of Top Glove’s products on arrival at American ports over allegations the company used forced labour....
...Winston is a former managing director at the China Investment Corporation, one of China’s sovereign wealth funds....
...The American manufacturer Unifi launched a recycled polyester fibre in 2007, with outdoor clothing companies Patagonia and Polartec among its first customers for fleece outerwear that became a finance industry...
...Still, by rubber stamping the Vuse Solo e-cigarette and related devices, the agency sent a clear signal that it does not intend to ban vaping outright....
...Then, the day after the award in March, the US Customs and Border Protection ordered the seizure of Top Glove’s products on arrival at American ports over allegations the company used forced labour....
...Shares in the world’s largest rubber glove maker fell sharply after it reported that an employee had died from Covid-19, raising concerns over the severity of an outbreak ripping through its worker dormitories...
...Peru is the world’s second-biggest producer of copper, home to mines owned by foreign companies including Anglo American, Glencore, Southern Copper Corporation and MMG....
...Chopsticks are a little beyond us in virtual reality so we have to use our handsets to pick up the synthetic sushi and guide it towards our mouths....
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