China will quicken the pace of implementing the strategy of free trade zones (FTZs) and turn institutional innovation into a strong impetus for the country's development, President Xi Jinping said Thursday.[Special coverage] To speed up ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, China
The Chinese economy is confronted with more difficulties than anticipated in 2014, but it has scored more achievements than expected, said Xu Shaoshi, minister in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission, China's top ...
It's the dead of winter. Delivery man Liu Jia and his colleagues start the day when most of people are still asleep. Working at a distribution point of a shopping website in Shanghai, they promise to deliver products within three hours of ...
Tags: Online Shopping, snacks
This year's Spring Festival will be the first time Wu Rongrong uses China's bullet train to return home. The 2,000 km trip from Beijing, where the 27-year-old works selling sporting goods, to her home city of Guilin in Guangxi Zhuang ...
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UK-based Essentra has completed the acquisition of Clondalkin’s specialist packaging division (SPD) for $455m, paving way for opening up the US market to Essentra as well as boost its existing presence across Europe. Clondalkin ...
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The United States is set to become an even more dominant market for the diamond industry in 2015. In a reversal of trends that have characterized the industry in the past few years, there has been a shift back from east to west as industry ...
Tags: Diamond Market, diamond industry
U.S. online retail sales for the Christmas season, from November 1 to December 31, rose 15 percent year on year to $53.3 billion, according to comScore Inc. Cyber Monday, December 1, ranked as the heaviest online spending day of the year ...
The Jumping Sumo family welcomes new additions while the Mechanical Firefly joins the Rolling Spider line-up. CES 2015 is officially open and Parrot is not wasting a minute to reveal its new collection of Parrot MiniDrones. Slated for ...
Tags: cross-country model, Toys
Undoubtedly one of the catch-phrases that Chinese stock investors like to hear most is "opening up". The government has already taken numerous steps to ease restrictions on foreign capital in the domestic stock market. You must have heard ...
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Exports from the Vietnamese apparel sector are expected to touch US $24.5 billion and thereby surpass the set target by nearly $1 billion. “The garment and textile sector continues to top Vietnamese exports, mainly due to right ...
The Chinese government has been authorized to ease investment rules in three new free trade zones (FTZs) after top legislature gave the go ahead during a bi-monthly meeting on Sunday. The new zones will be located in South China's ...
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With falling home prices and slowing growth, Beijing already has plenty on its plate. Such challenges are now fueling concerns about how the current Russian currency turmoil will impact the world’s second largest economy, and ...
Tags: Currency Depreciation, home prices, rubble
Drones are now widely used by the military. And both Amazon and Google and experimental programs to use drones to deliver packages. In the medical sector, drones have been envisioned as a means to carry emergency medical devices such as ...
Tags: drone technology, packages, Health
American fresh produce distributor Castellini Group of Companies has announced plans to invest around $52m in the development of a new large-scale fresh-cut fruits and vegetables processing and produce distribution centre in Conley, ...
Tags: fruits, vegetables, Agriculture
UK-based RPC Containers Corby has invested in a new Injection Stretch Blow Moulding (ISBM) technology, enabling the company to offer its established high barrier PP/EVOH/PP containers with enhanced transparency. According to the ...
Tags: Injection Stretch Blow Moulding technology, Agriculture