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Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has scheduled its leadership election for September 27th. The winner of the election is expected to become the next prime minister due to the LDP's dominance in parliament. The election is held among party members and lawmakers, with the general public not participating. The new leader will have a three-year term as head of the LDP and may call for a general election to gain a mandate for the new government. Currently, there are 11 potential candidates, including former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, who aims to become Japan's first female premier. The number of candidates is expected to decrease as the official campaigning period approaches. [Extracted from the article]

Bulgaria's president has given former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov's party a week to form a new government in order to avoid further political turmoil. Borissov's Gerb party and an alliance led by another ex-premier, Kiril Petkov, had previously agreed to rule together. However, infighting over administrative positions and planned reforms has put the coalition deal at risk. If a new government cannot be formed, a snap election may be called, which would be the sixth in just over two years. [Extracted from the article]

Republic Services Inc., one of the largest trash haulers in the US, has opened a new plastic recycling plant in Las Vegas. The 75,000-square-foot Polymer Center will process plastic waste into high-quality material that can be used to make water and soda bottles or other food-grade packaging. The plant aims to address the limited demand for recycled PET, the plastic used in bottles, by turning it back into food-grade plastic instead of downcycling it into other products. The facility is part of a larger trend of increased demand for recycled plastic due to government mandates and corporate pledges. However, some critics argue that large-scale domestic PET recycling is not economically viable due to cheaper imports from other countries. Republic Services remains optimistic about the market and is planning to open more recycling facilities in the future. [Extracted from the article]

Adani Green Energy, India's largest renewable power producer, plans to invest an additional $22 billion to expand its capacity by more than five times by 2030. The company is focusing on the Indian market before considering foreign expansion, as it believes this is in the national and economic interest. India's electricity demand is growing at a rate of 7% annually, leading the government to mandate the addition of renewable and thermal capacity to prevent blackouts. Adani Green aims to reach 45 gigawatts of installed capacity by the end of the decade and plans to spend $4.5 billion to add 8 gigawatts over the next two years. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports on the U.S. Supreme Court cases regarding the Affordable Care Act. It mentions how Republican or Democratic control of the Senate will impact revisions to the law, views on the provision that mandated health insurance acquisition, and the role of Georgia's runoff elections for two senators.

(Bloomberg) -- Companies that have more women at board level tend to have higher credit worthiness, according to new findings by Moody's Investors Service. Having more gender-balanced leadership typically leads to better corporate governance, which in turn supports credit quality, the ratings agency said in a global gender report published on Wednesday. [Extracted from the article]

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "Some of Jerry's Kids Are Mad at the Old Man," in the September 14, 1992 issue, "Clintonomics," by Alan Blinder in the September 21, 1992 issue, and "KLM-Northwest: Three Years and Barely Aloft," in the August 24, 1992 issue.

The conditions of the peace agreement in the oil-producing EastAfrican nation, implemented in 2020, will remain in place untilFebruary 2025, including the power-sharing government withSalva Kiir as president and former rebel leader Riek Machar as hisdeputy. While the peace agreement helped end a civil war that started in2013 -- two years after South Sudan became independent fromSudan -- it's continued to face widespread communal violence. [Extracted from the article]

China's overall outbreak has been trending down steadily,but prevention remains "complicated" with new clustersemerging in Inner Mongolia and other areas, LeiZhenglong, an official at the National Health Commission,said at a briefing on Sunday. (Bloomberg) -- Life in Beijing will take a step closer toreturning to normal Monday, as the capital rolls backCovid-19 restrictions having previously declared thelatest outbreak of the virus was under control. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Sweden plans to enact a new pandemic law next month that will give it the right to shutter businesses and public transport to help tackle a spike in coronavirus cases. Speaking in an interview on state broadcaster SVT earlier on Tuesday, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said that it would be "useful" if the legislation was in place by early next year. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Starbucks said on Thursday that it will require customers to wear facial coverings when visiting all of its company-owned cafe locations throughout the U.S., whether it's locally mandated or not. "At select locations where a local government mandate is not in place, customers that may not be wearing a facial covering will have various options to order their Starbucks, including ordering at the drive-thru, curbside pickup through the Starbucks app or placing an order for delivery through Starbucks Delivers", the company said in a statement. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- The Mexican government is working with its counterparts in the U.S. and Canada to come up with a plan to reopen the auto industry, the Economy Ministry said in a statement Friday. Until then, the auto industry in Mexico and its supply chains must comply with the suspension of activities mandated by the Mexican government, it said. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Israeli lawmaker Benny Gantz, who was granted a mandate to form Israel's next government, told President Reuven Rivlin that he may need extra time to build a coalition, Gantz's Blue and White party said in written comments. Gantz, who headed an anti-Netanyahu bloc in the three elections held in the past year, broke with his partners on March 26 and announced that he planned to attempt to form a national emergency government. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Bolivia's top electoral authority called for a new date for the country's presidential election, saying the May 3 vote became unfeasible after the government mandated a two-week nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Bolivia has been in political disarray since its October presidential election ended in a short-lived victory for socialist leader Evo Morales, who quickly resigned and fled the country amid fraud accusations and violent protests. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said he doesn't support House Democrats' plan to respond to the coronavirus outbreak, even as his Treasury secretary is negotiating changes with Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Trump, in his Oval Office speech to the American people Wednesday night, asked Congress to cut the payroll tax, but even Republicans in Congress have been cool to that idea, and McCarthy said measures like that could come later if needed. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said he doesn't support House Democrats' package of measures to respond to the coronavirus in its current form, even as his Treasury secretary is negotiating changes with Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Trump, in his Oval Office speech to the American people Wednesday night, asked Congress to cut the payroll tax, but even Republicans in Congress have been cool to that idea, and McCarthy said measures like that could come later if needed. [Extracted from the article]

Trump Rips "Goodies" in Democrats' Virus Bill; Mnuchin in Talks (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said he doesn't support House Democrats' package of measures to respond to the coronavirus in its current form, even as his treasury secretary is negotiating changes with Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Trump, in his Oval Office speech to the American people Wednesday night, asked Congress to cut the payroll tax, but even Republicans in Congress have been cool to that idea, and McCarthy said measures like that could come later if needed. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports on the relationship between the tax reform legislation of 2017 and the U.S, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). It mentions the desire of the U.S. Republican Party to eliminate the penalty for not having health insurance to effectively end Obamacare, the projected effect on health insurance premiums and uninsured people, and the resurgence of support for keeping the mandate.

Berkshire takes $300.9 million stake in oil-sands producer That marks at least the second time the Omaha-based firm has owned Suncor's stock; Berkshire previously held a 22.3 million-share stake, which it sold in 2016. [Extracted from the article]

Benchmark oil-sands marker drops to $13.46 a barrel Thursday Heavy Western Canadian Select crude fell to a record low as several oil producers shut in production and some demand the Alberta government intervene to mandate across-the-board cuts. The oil-sands benchmark fell $2.29 to $13.46 a barrel Thursday, the lowest in Bloomberg data extending back to 2008. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Gadfly) -- Everyone's a Winner If China Relaxes Electric-Car Rules: Gadfly (Correct) China's plan to let foreign carmakers like Ford Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG set up wholly owned electric-car businesses, exempting them from auto industry rules that require joint ventures with local partners, is already being hailed as a landmark opening of market access. [Extracted from the article]

Alibaba and Tencent in particular have grown big and powerful more quickly than U.S. tech giants did. Alibaba, Tencent and Samsung are superpowers to worry about just as much as Apple or Amazon. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg View) -- We Need Congress's Wonks and the White House's: Megan McArdle The CBO, on the other hand, stays so scrupulously out of politics that a running joke in Washington notes that its full name is the "nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office", as journalists seem to automatically add the word. Mulvaney's proposed solution -- turn legislative analysis into a Hobbesian war of all-against-all, with competing ideological interest groups producing independent scores of legislation -- misses the fundamental point of having the CBO, which is not that its estimates are precisely right, but that they are consistent. [Extracted from the article]

O'Reilly asked the president whether he would introduce a health plan this year to replace Obamacare, which Trump has long vowed to quickly repeal as one of his top priorities. Trump's remarks are the latest sign of the challenges Republican lawmakers are facing as they work to figure out how to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, after seven years of calling for Barack Obama's health law to be scuttled. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses start-stop batteries developed by industrial company Johnson Controls. The start-stop battery, which stops the engine when the car stops to increase fuel mileage, has been used in some hybrid cars but hasn't been feasible for conventional automobiles before the Johnson Controls' version. The batteries are expected to help the auto industry meet government mandates around increasing fuel efficiency. A diagram of how the battery works is included.

"Advanced biofuels will be a very, very hard sell outside those countries where the energy sector is state-controlled unless politicians get on top of it and mandate the use", Nielsen said. "A mandate in Europe on advanced biofuels is a battle with the oil companies", Nielsen said in London. [Extracted from the article]