KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 19): On the 83
rd floor of the Petronas Twin Towers last week, Tengku Muhammad Taufik Tengku Aziz, the president and CEO of Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas), met up with
The Edge for a two-and-a-half-hour session, the longest thus far any CEO of the oil company has had with us.
And the hours seemed to pass quickly with humorous exchanges and banter, but all questions were answered and peppered with facts on the oil company and its direction. It was a frank and good interview.
Then again, the times, they are changing and for the first time since it was set up in 1974 to become the custodian of the country s hydrocarbon resources and to regulate the industry from then concessionaires like Shell and ExxonMobil Petronas is likely to end the year with an annual loss. It is a situation brought about by the total collapse of the oil and gas market and economic standstill owing to Covid-19 and impairments from the acquisition of assets a few years ago, when thi
by JOCELYN NOVECK PARIS (AP) – The French air force went on highest alert, with pilots at the ready in their jets. Governments across Europe sent troops to guard airports, train stations, border posts and nuclear plants. Commercial flights over London were banned and in Athens, security plans for the 2004 Olympics were being reviewed.
The devastating terror attacks on the United States occurred oceans away, but they sent shudders throughout the world – of sympathy but also fear. ”We are all Americans,” wrote the French newspaper Le Monde.
Many wondered how they could ever feel safe, if the mighty United States could be harmed so swiftly and drastically. ”Why couldn’t it happen here?” asked Daniel Cohen, who works at a dry cleaner in a posh sector of Paris. ”Here, Japan or anywhere that crazy people want to attack.”
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From finding water trapped inside the moon’s sunlit surfaces to ‘DNA’ preserved in 75 million-year-old dinosaur fossil, here are discoveries of science in 2020.
Even though the unprecedented situations in 2020 has made people across the world rethink all the simpler things in life such as dining out or standing in a congested road, the dreadful year failed to diminish the achievements of scientists. While the most famous question of this year remained, “When will the COVID-19 end?”, science is not only busy saving lives from the pandemic but also has aced in astronomical achievements among others.