The US stocks posted a huge loss in the week ending Dec 21 as investors digested central bank's latest rate hike decision and a batch of economic data.
The United Nations Environment Programme said the per capita municipal solid waste generation in Southeast Asia stands at 1.14 kilograms per day. With the exception of Singapore, which has a well-structured waste management system in place, UNEP said most Southeast Asian countries resort to open burning to dispose of waste.
The United States' consular officials were urged to "immediately make a clean break from anti-China forces who stir up trouble in Hong Kong and stop sending out wrong signals to violent offenders", according to an official complaint submitted by the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Commissioner's Office in the HKSAR to the US Consulate General on Aug 8.
The United Kingdom-based publication Central Banking announced the award on Tuesday and it will be presented at a formal ceremony in London on March 13. Previous winners of the Central Banking lifetime achievement award include former United States Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, Jacques de Larosiere, the former governor of the Banque de France, and ZetiAkhtar Aziz, the first woman to be governor of Malaysia’s Central Bank.
The US president also voiced dissatisfaction about outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May and her handling of Brexit. "I have been very critical about the way the UK and Prime Minister Theresa May handled Brexit. What a mess she and her representatives have created. I told her how it should be done, but she decided to go another way," he tweeted.
The United States started imposing tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports and 10 percent on aluminium from the EU, Canada and Mexico on June 1.
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The US, China, Brazil, Japan and Germany are the leading trash generators. The US produced about 228 million tons of waste in 2006, a figure that climbed to 254 tons by 2013.
The UK government is expected to reveal its Huawei decision when it publishes a telecoms supply chain review in the coming weeks.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) told Juul Labs, the dominant maker of e-cigarettes, to immediately correct marketing that the agency said violates federal regulations by advertising nicotine pods as a safer alternative to cigarettes without approval from the agency.
The UN chief also called on sectors to "act across an array" to address the conflicting demands from industry, fishing, shipping, mining and tourism that are creating unsustainable levels of stress on marine and coastal ecosystems.