The African Development Bank Group’s Rome Process/Mattei Plan Financing Facility (RPFF) has announced the RPFF Clean Cooking Program (RCCP), an important new contribution to increasing investments into clean cooking across Africa. The announcement was made at the African Development Bank Group’s 2026 Annual Meetings during a special session held on Wednesday May 27, hosted by the Government of Italy in partnership with the African Development Bank. Established in February 2025, the RPFF is designed as a catalytic tool combining grant and concessional financing to be deployed rapidly in co-financing with the African Development Bank Group in the sectors of energy,…
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To read the full article sign up for free or sign in. May 29, 2026 By Marian (YoonJee) Chu No Comments Pfizer Inc. is paying Innovent Biologics Co. Ltd. $650 million up front and up to $9.85 billion in milestones, plus royalties, to collaborate across 12 early stage and de novo antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) and multispecific antibodies for oncology.BioWorld Deals and M&A Cancer Oncology Antibody Antibody-drug conjugate Monoclonal antibody Asia-Pacific China U.S. Source link
KUALA LUMPUR, May 29, 2026 – (ACN Newswire) – ONE COMPANY, a foundation registered with SSM, the Companies Commission of Malaysia, today unveiled ONE WALLET, a Telegram-native Web3 wallet built on the TON blockchain. The foundation also published ONE WALLET Whitepaper V1.0, detailing the product, security architecture, and the utility model of its $1 token. ONE WALLET targets the gap between custodial exchange wallets — easy but centrally controlled — and self-custody wallets, which are powerful but ask mainstream users to memorize twelve-word seed phrases and install separate apps. ONE WALLET inverts that order: users open Telegram,…
Conservative: Hong Kong — Sanctions-Buster “The U.S. can’t stop the illegal flow of oil solely by chasing tankers at sea,” warns The Wall Street Journal’s Jillian Kay Melchior; it must also “target part of the financial and corporate infrastructure” — much of it in Hong Kong — that enables commerce in sanctioned goods. Sanctions regimes “resemble a quarantine” that halts the passage of goods and services, but Hong Kong corporate law permits domiciled firms to “have no business operations” and “exist as shell companies,” facilitating the disguise of ownership under layers of fronts. By weaponizing Hong Kong’s business-friendly heritage into…
Airbus Urges Use Of Certified Accessories Only On Cockpit Windows | Aviation Week https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content Thierry Dubois May 29, 2026 Non-certified window accessories risk overheating, Airbus cautions. Credit: Airbus LYON—Airbus is recommending pilots avoid the use of non-certified equipment such as sunshades and suction cup-mounted tablet holders on cockpit windows to avoid compounding heating system failures. While such malfunctions are rare, the presence of non-certified accessories can create thermal… Thierry Dubois Thierry Dubois has specialized in aerospace journalism since 1997. An engineer in fluid dynamics from Toulouse-based Enseeiht, he covers the French commercial aviation, defense and space…
Friday, 29 May 2026 20:14 By Reuters JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP Switzerland’s Jil Teichmann, ranked 170th in the world, stunned Czech 10th seed Karolina Muchova 6-1 7-5 in the third round of the French Open. Teichmann will take on last year’s semi-finalist Russian eight seed Mirra Andreeva in the last 16. Andreeva beat Czech Marie Bouzkova 6-4 6-2 to reach the fourth round. Elsewhere, Romanian 18th seed Sorana Cirstea thrashed Argentina’s Solana Sierra 6-0 6-0 as the 36-year-old became the oldest player in the Open Era to win by double bagel in a Grand Slam main draw. Cirstea will next…
Welcome to Pharmaceutical Executive Daily, your quick briefing on the top news shaping the pharmaceutical and life sciences industry.In today’s Pharmaceutical Executive Daily, Harpreet Singh discusses the evolving regulatory landscape for biopharma, the World Health Organization identifies three priority treatment candidates for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola virus disease, and this week’s pharma roundup highlights new findings on Mounjaro and long COVID-related immune system changes.In a new conversation with Pharmaceutical Executive, Harpreet Singh, former director within the FDA’s Oncology Center of Excellence and current chief medical officer at Precision for Medicine, outlined how the regulatory environment for biopharma continues to…
A Massive Breakthrough in Asian Connectivity While the broader Asia-Pacific region continues to be aggressively battered by sudden flight cancellations, unpredictable terminal congestion, and systemic travel chaos, Xiamen Airlines has just executed a massive operational triumph. Providing a highly uplifting, heavily anticipated injection into today’s primary airline news, the massive Chinese carrier has officially inaugurated a direct, nonstop flight corridor completely linking the economic powerhouse of Chongqing to Manila. As competing regional airlines violently struggle to manage massive airport disruptions and crippling capacity limits, this successful route launch dominates premium aviation updates. By bridging China’s famous “8D city” directly with…
AutomobilesState-owned automaker struggled against rivals like BYD, Geely in EV arenaGAC’s Aion line of new energy vehicles was previously seen as a success, but sales have fallen. (Photo by Shizuka Tanabe)GUANGZHOU — Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC), a major Chinese state-owned automaker, is struggling with intense price competition in electric vehicles, finding itself at one point in 2025 losing 8,300 yuan ($1,225) per sale of its own-brand models. Source link
Xiang Yang Hong 09 is a Chinese oceanographic survey and research ship. Image by Boloomo via Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0. We didn’t initially set out to investigate China’s deep-sea mining fleet, but as our research into other aspects of the burgeoning industry developed over our year-long partnership, it became clear that an investigation into the alleged dual-use of the country’s deep-sea mining fleet was imperative. Shortly after we embarked on our joint project, geopolitics around the deep-sea mining landscape began to shift dramatically. In February 2025, China signed an agreement with the Cook Islands government to collaborate on deep-sea mining…