Swedish engineering skills are involved in building the new Chinese electric car company Next EV, which aims to become China’s response to Tesla.


“It’s fascinating on-line Internet technology thinking all theough the company that makes this journey so exiting” says product manager Roger Malkusson to Swedish media. 


The next EV’s super sports car, Nine EP9, demonstrates the company’s vision and technical ability, according to company founder William Li, inspired by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The car delivers 1 MW, which according to the company can be equated with 1360 horsepower. 

Next year the Next EV being the first car out on the market in China.

Gabon and the Kyrgyz Republic have ratified the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), putting the total number of ratifications from members at 102. Only 8 more ratifications are needed to bring the TFA into force.


We are close now! This is the biggest change of trade in decades and the potential is huge. A game changer. 


In addition to Gabon and the Kyrgyz Republic, the following WTO members have also accepted the TFA: Hong Kong China, Singapore, the United States, Mauritius, Malaysia, Japan, Australia, Botswana, Trinidad and Tobago, the Republic of Korea, Nicaragua, Niger, Belize, Switzerland, Chinese Taipei, China, Liechtenstein, Lao PDR, New Zealand, Togo, Thailand, the European Union (on behalf of its 28 member states), the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Pakistan, Panama, Guyana, Côte d’Ivoire, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Kenya, Myanmar, Norway, Viet Nam, Brunei, Ukraine, Zambia, Lesotho, Georgia, Seychelles, Jamaica, Mali, Cambodia, Paraguay, Turkey, Brazil, Macao China, the United Arab Emirates, Samoa, India, the Russian Federation, Montenegro, Albania, Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka, St. Kitts and Nevis, Madagascar, the Republic of Moldova, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Iceland, Chile, Swaziland, Dominica and Mongolia.

The piano. And the Artic world. 


Through his music, acclaimed Italian composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi has added his voice to those of eight million people from across the world demanding protection for the Arctic. He performed an original piece “Elegy for the Arctic”, on the Arctic Ocean to call for its protection, on June 17th, 2016.

 With a grand piano on a floating platform in front of a glacier, Einaudi played an original piece composed for the cause.


 The acclaimed composer has turned into music the voices of the eight million people that asks for Arctic protection.


 With this action, Greenpeace is urging the OSPAR Commission not to miss the opportunity to protect international Arctic waters under its mandate at this week’s meeting in Tenerife.


Einaudi performed one of his own compositions on a floating platform in the middle of the Ocean, against the backdrop of the Wahlenbergbreen glacier (in Svalbard, Norway). 


Travelling on board Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise on the eve of a significant event for the future of the Arctic: this week’s meeting of the OSPAR Commission, which could secure the first protected area in Arctic international waters.

Here you can watch the amazing video: Elegy for the Arctic: Video