Image credit: Getty Images Several airlines have updated their guidance on carrying lithium batteries onboard. The batteries are in devices such as cellphones and e-cigarettes, and can malfunction to produce smoke, fire or extreme heat. Read-These Asian airlines have just banned power banks onboard In 2024, three incidents every two weeks of overheating lithium batteries…
Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways has said it “assessed all the risks” in allowing the continued use of power banks on flights, after Singapore Airlines followed the lead of some other Asian carriers by barring passengers from charging electronics with the devices. A Cathay Pacific spokesman said on Wednesday the company would make “no change”…
GEM, a Shenzhen-listed recycler of electronic and industrial waste, is eyeing Hong Kong for a second share listing in a bid to access international funding and accelerate its global expansion. “To support [its] global strategy, accelerate the development of overseas business, enhance its overseas financing capabilities and strengthen its international brand image and global competitiveness,…
Chinese company Ganfeng Lithium has completed a major lithium processing plant in Mali – defying security challenges, a strict new mining code and a lithium supply market glut. China’s largest lithium producer, Ganfeng announced that the first phase of its Goulamina lithium mine, in the southern region of Bougouni, had gone live in mid-December. It…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Chinese firms’ overseas investments in clean energy technology projects have exceeded $100 billion since the start of 2023 as they aim to avoid tariffs in the U.S. and elsewhere, Australian research group Climate Energy Finance (CEF) said on Wednesday. China is the world’s biggest producer and exporter of products such as solar…