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China Petroleum & Chemical, or Sinopec, is one of China s national oil companies and one of Asian s largest integrated oil companies in terms of revenue. Its income is derived primarily from refining and marketing of oil products and petrochemical production. Sinopec has China s largest petrol station network with over 30,000 stations and enjoys significant market share in petrochemicals. Established in 2000 by China Petrochemical Corporation, a state-owned enterprise and majority shareholder, the company also owns oil and gas assets in Shandong and Sichuan provinces. It has a smaller global upstream presence than peers PetroChina and CNOOC.
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The pattern of education cuts is a grim “new normal”. Photography by Vivienne Guo
April 29, 2021
Students and staff rallied in front of Fisher Library today in a protest called by the Education Action Group to oppose the recent proposal made to the Academic Board to cut semesters down to 12 weeks from 13 weeks.
As has been noted at previous events, multiple speakers drew links between the proposed 12 week semester and the establishment of trimesters at the University of New South Wales, which was met with significant student and staff opposition before being passed. Education Officer Tom Williams described a pattern of education cuts as a grim “new normal”.
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Epidemiologists are questioning why Australia has banned all flights from India, with a Guardian analysis revealing India has fewer coronavirus cases per capita than either the United States or the United Kingdom during their respective Covid peaks.
The Australian government did not suspend flights from those countries as it did this week with India.
Experts say cases in India could be underreported but they believe the numbers are still lower than the spikes seen in other countries in recent months. They also note one variant of interest in India has not yet been deemed as concerning as the UK strain that dominated Britainâs December wave.
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Story of Earth and question no scientist ever asked
The planet’s evolution and ‘microbial poop’ were just some of the wide ranging topics US mineralogist Dr Robert Hazen covered at the UNSW Centre for Ideas event last night.
Earth, seen here from the moon, has gone through 10 stages of mineral evolution, according to Dr Robert Hazen from Carnegie Institution of Washington’s Earth and Planets Laboratory. Credit: Shutterstock.
When acclaimed US mineralogist Robert Hazen was a young boy, he always collected and organised things like stamps or coins. But then he started collecting fossils and minerals, and he realised they told a story.