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13 dead in blast at China-owned nickel plant in Indonesia

A blast in a Chinese-owned nickel plant on Indonesia's Sulawesi island killed 13 workers and injured dozens on Sunday, according to police and a company official.

Mobility

Chinese Tesla rival BYD to open EV manufacturing plant in Hungary

The announcement comes as Hungary continues to try to position itself as a global hub for EV manufacturing.

Tech News

Families in China turning to AI to 'digitally revive' dead loved ones

Some Chinese firms claim to have "digitally revived" thousands of deceased people using artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Culture news

A new Pope & Harry on the throne: Nostradamus' 2024 predictions

Here are Nostradamus' 2024 predictions - and we’re not at all doomed and everything's peachy. (Brace yourselves.)

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Markets

How trading carbon is helping Europe's agricultural sector

Carbon markets could hold the key to sustainable farming and efforts to mitigate climate change, and many European farmers are exploring them further.

Tech News

Euroviews. Should China’s space race advances be cause for concern in Europe?

Steel sharpens steel. Great people and great companies throughout history and across the world have taken inspiration even from their fiercest rivals, using them as fuel to keep working hard and improving, Bogdan Gogulan writes.

Culture news

How much would you pay for a menu signed by Mao Zedong?

“To hold a menu signed by Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai is to hold a piece of the past..."

Europe News

EU warns China it will 'not tolerate' unfair competition at summit

European leaders will "not be able to tolerate that our industrial base is undermined by unfair competition," Ursula von der Leyen warned on Thursday after a highly anticipated meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Economy

Chinese exports increase for the first time in six months

The increase comes as a surprise to analysts expecting a drop of more than 1% in the world’s second-biggest economy.

Markets

Why Europe's EVs are years behind China despite €250bn investment

The ACEA president has highlighted that the European EV industry may still take until the end of the decade to be at the same levels as global competitors.

Italy

Italy withdraws from China's Belt and Road Initiative

Italy signed the pact in 2019 expecting a big boost to exports but hoped-for economic gains have not materialised.

Economy

Trouble in China? Moody's cuts its credit outlook on rising debt woes

The world's second-largest economy was slowing down even before a crackdown on excessive borrowing in 2020 led to defaults by many property developers.

Health news

'Walking pneumonia' epidemics reported in parts of Europe. What is it?

Much like China, several European countries are seeing rising cases of mycoplasma pneumoniae, a bacterium that causes "walking pneumonia". How serious is it?

Business

"Freedom scallops": The seafood war you probably didn’t know about

As Japan is locked in a scallops standoff with China and Russia, with wider political ramifications, Tokyo reassures consumers worldwide about its seafood safety and looks for new markets. Euronews Business breaks down what it is all about.

China

The biggest prosecution yet is underway in Hong Kong taking pro-democracy activists to trial

Some of Hong Kong’s best-known pro-democracy activists went on trial Monday in the biggest prosecution yet under a law imposed by China’s ruling Communist Party to crush dissent.

Markets

Here’s why Chinese fashion giant Shein is eyeing a US IPO in secret

Chinese fashion company Shein, a popular online retailer with European shoppers, has discreetly filed for a US IPO in a major trans-continental move.

Europe Decoded

Why the EU is so worried about China's anti-espionage law

For the past half year, high-ranking officials of the European Union have raised the alarm about China's anti-espionage law.

China

China relaxes visa rules for five EU states

The change in the visa rules came as French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna met with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing on Friday.

Health news

'No unknown or new pathogen' detected in China, WHO says

Several respiratory illnesses are co-circulating in China this year after the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions.

Tech News

Euroviews. Europe has lost the AI race. It can't ignore the quantum computing one

Quantum computing's physics-oriented behaviour allows it to be infinitely scalable, which is why Europe has to master this mysterious tech if it wants to avoid a brewing dystopia, Koen Bertels writes.