CANBERRA – Australia has taken over Chile as the world’s largest lithium producing nation boosted mainly by record output at two major mines, according to data from United States Geological Survey (USGS). Down Under produced […]
NASHVILLE – The United States on Monday debuted world’s most powerful supercomputer – Summit – with a peak performance of 200000trillion calculations per second – or 200 petaflops. It also has 4608 servers, 9,216 processors […]
SANTIAGO – A project to build a new Chinatown district in the Chilean capital will be carried out with donations from Chinese businesses in the area, Santiago’s mayor Felipe Alessandri said Saturday. “The idea is […]
BEIJING – Chile welcomes Chinese tourists to visit Antarctica via the South American country, considered the best gateway to Antarctica, the ambassador of Chile to China has said. Jaime Chomali made the remarks at a […]
SANTIAGO – China’s Tianqi Lithium has agreed to acquire a 24 percent stake in Chile’s SQM, one of the world’s largest lithium producers, from Canada’s Nutrien (TSX:NTR) in a deal worth $4.07 billion, the companies […]
MEXICO CITY – The number of international tourists to Mexico in the first quarter rose to a record high of 10.6 million, a 12.6% increase year-on-year, according to the country’s tourism ministry. “Only in the […]
BEIJING – China is seriously concerned about the violent clashes in the Gaza Strip and has called on both Israel and Palestine to exercise restraint, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Tuesday. Tens of thousands of […]
DALIAN – China’s first domestically-built aircraft carrier set out from a dock of Dalian Shipyard, northeast China’s Liaoning Province, for sea trials Sunday morning. The aircraft carrier, as yet unnamed, left its berth at a […]
SANTO DOMINGO – This week, the Dominican Republic and China announced they were establishing diplomatic relations as the Caribbean country became the latest nation to dump Taiwan, leaving it with just 19 diplomatic allies around […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – United States President Donald Trump, engaged in an escalating confrontation with Beijing over trade, will urge Latin American leaders next week to work with the United States – not China – on […]
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