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Tesla opens longest Supercharger route from east to west along China’s historic Silk Road

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It forged trade networks in Central Asian countries, including Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgzstan, along with modern-day India and Pakistan. BRI lays out China’s plan to build railways, ports, highways, and other infrastructure that will connect the East with the West. The road also extended into Europe.

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Opinion: China To Continue Expanding Its Influence In The Oil And Gas Sector

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One of China’s most recent mid-stream deals included building a pipeline from Iran to Pakistan , which is being built despite objections from the U.S. The stated reason though, isn’t to satisfy China’s energy consumption, but to help alleviate Pakistan from its current energy problems.

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GSMA study indicates Bangkok could gain US$1B per year in benefits through ITS; reduced travel time, CO2 emissions and accidents

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A new case-based research report produced by the GSMA — Building Digital Societies in Asia: Making Transportation Smarter — indicates that the successful implementation of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) in the capital city of Thailand could reduce travel times between two to four days per commuter per year.

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IEA finds CO2 emissions flat for third straight year even as global economy grew in 2016

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The overall increase in the world’s nuclear net capacity last year was the highest since 1993, with new reactors coming online in China, the United States, South Korea, India, Russia and Pakistan. Coal demand fell worldwide but the drop was particularly sharp in the United States, where demand was down 11% in 2016.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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On a visit to Pakistan with his parents, 7-year-old Aadeel Akhtar met a girl his age who was missing her right leg. Twenty-one years later, in 2015, the IEEE member founded Psyonic , which designs and builds advanced, affordable artificial limbs. I loved everything about engineering, programming, and building things," he says. "I

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Bosch accident detection set of rules accelerates protection machine deployment with out including extra sensors

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In 2019, Rameez Ahmad, an engineering supervisor at Bosch USA, was once touring in Pakistan with pals from faculty when a motorbike strike the passenger facet in their automobile. It additionally required Bosch to paintings with its shoppers to calibrate the machine and to build certain it’s efficient.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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When you encourage people to spread falsities to get advertising and make money, then this thing kind of builds on itself. He worked in bookstores and then started a fashion business with his friends while planning his escape from Iran through Pakistan in 1982. There he helped build Wi-Fi access points with a 2-kilometer range.