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Food retailers will innovate to survive and thrive

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INTERNATIONAL

Innovation in food retail.

Traditional US retailers that can adapt will flourish

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UNITED STATES

Walmart had also joined Microsoft to bid for TikTok’s US assets, seeing the video-sharing app boosting its digital media business. The legacy retailer’s transformation provides a…

TPP will help reshape Japan's industrial structure

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JAPAN

Japan and the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Large-scale deforestation will continue in Bolivia

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BOLIVIA

The main culprit is the expansion of soya cultivation, especially in Santa Cruz department. The government pays lip service to the need to preserve the Amazon biome but adopts a…

Polluting plastics output to keep outgrowing world GDP

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INTERNATIONAL

At 379 mt, the emission of plastic waste will show an increase of almost 250% over the same period. Both growth rates outstripped that of global GDP and are forecast to more than…

California leads on US plastic pollution controls

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US

According to OECD data, the United States generates the most plastics waste per head of any nation -- some 220 kilograms per capita, 1.75 times the developed economies' average…

Russia’s Africa focus will only be partial

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AFRICA

The news comes soon after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov completed his first African tour since 2014 after visiting Angola, Ethiopia, Namibia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. By…

Chinese over-fishing will ruin West African waters

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CHINA

The small fish essential to the diets and livelihoods of coastal communities are much less abundant than in the recent past, and catches by traditional fishing communities are in…

Biometrics use is fuelling privacy concerns

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INT

Data such as DNA, blood and saliva may also be used, typically in medical and legal settings. While the use of such identification increases, concerns about abuses of the most…

South African monopoly plan faces competing interests

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SOUTH AFRICA

The proposed overhaul, prompted in part by populist sentiment against so-called ‘white monopoly capital’, aims to facilitate competition and open the economy to smaller…