by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 7, 2025 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Policy, Risk Management, Technology
China holds a near-monopoly on rare earth magnets – a crucial component in electric vehicle motors – and it added them to an export control list in April as part of its trade war with the United States, forcing all exporters to apply to Beijing for licenses. In a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 2, 2025 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
Across the Northern Hemisphere, the extreme heat is a reflection of how much warmer the Earth is compared with a few decades ago, Daniel Swain, a climatologist at the University of California, Los Angeles said. Since 1959, Europe in particular, but parts of the...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 27, 2025 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Life, Non-Life, Reinsurance
While China (+7.8% p.a.) will continue to dominate the region in absolute terms, the real growth champion over the next decade is likely to be India (+10.5% p.a.) Mumbai: With a total premium income of USD 145 billion in 2024 , the Indian insurance market has showed...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 10, 2025 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
As a result, fees are plunging. The cost of shipping a 40-foot box from Shanghai to Los Angeles — port nodes on either side of the Pacific — hit the lowest since 2023 in late March, according to the data from Drewry Shipping Consultants, a maritime advisory firm. A...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 8, 2025 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Policy, Risk Management, Technology
Richard Horne, chief of Britain’s National Cyber Security Center “China remains the pacing threat in the cyber realm,” Richard Horne, the chief of Britain’s National Cyber Security Center, said in a rare speech on Wednesday. “The continued activity that we’re seeing...
