Myanmar authorities announced Wednesday that a consortium of six foreign group companies, led by China's CITIC, has won the bid for implementing two projects of the country's newly planned special economic zone (SEZ) in Kyaukphyu, western ...
Tags: Six-Company, Implementing SEZ
Swiss food company Nestle has committed to use only cage-free eggs for its US food products by 2020. With this decision, the packaged food company has joined companies like Kellogg, McDonalds, Subway and Dunkin' Donuts, who have already ...
Tags: Nestle, cage-free eggs, Food
Against the backdrop of the gloomy global economy, almost all countries have taken innovation as a key to success. So does China. On top-level design, China's 13th Five-Year Plan for 2016-2020 clearly lists innovation as the number one ...
Tags: Innovation, China, Innovation Trend
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (R) holds a welcoming ceremony for Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev for the 20th China-Russia Prime Ministers' Regular Meeting in Beijing on Dec. 17, 2015. [Photo: gov.cn] China and Russia signed more than 30 ...
Tags: energy, investment, finance, bilateral cooperation
The announced merger between petrochemical giants Dow Chemical and DuPont will have a significant impact on the low-density polyethylene market and could be just the beginning of large-scale consolidations, an industry consultant said ...
Tags: Dow Chemical, DuPont, polyethylene, LDPE
According to ABI Research, the consumer robotics market is set to close out 2015 at 33 million shipments with total revenues of US$3.5 billion. By 2025, both shipments and revenues are expected to dramatically increase, with ABI Research ...
Tags: Consumer Robotics, Robotic Toys
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang shakes hands with Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Masimov at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on December 14, 2015. [Photo: Xinhua] Premier Li Keqiang held talks with his Kazakh counterpart Karim Massimov in ...
China's emerging industrial sectors, inspired by technological innovation and innovative policies, have developed rapidly in 2015. The boom in telecommunication, high-tech manufacturing, e-commerce, new energy and other emerging ...
The UN global climate negotiations in Paris starting Monday are likely to drive further investment in renewable energy, prompt a switch to electrification in heating and transport and further curb coal-fired power, Swiss bank UBS said in a ...
Tags: coal-fired power, decarbonized economy, wind, solar
An Electric Reliability Council of Texas report released Tuesday shows the independent system operator expects the supply of electricity to be tighter in summer 2016 than it did in the May version of the report. ERCOT's Capacity, Demand ...
Tags: ERCOT, wind power, solar, CDR
Africa-focused multinational consumer goods company Vasari Global along with UK-based asset management firm Duet Group, and the TIRET Group, which is an Ethiopian endowment fund, has unveiled an advanced brewery plant at Debre Birhan, which ...
California is on the verge of becoming the largest market for zero emission vehicles (ZEVs) in the United States, steered by the state's increasingly stringent ZEV mandate. The directive lends a holistic perspective to the adoption of ...
Tags: zero emission vehicles, Hydrogen fueling, electric vehicle
Fossil fuel companies risk wasting up to $2.2 trillion in the next decade by pursuing projects that could be uneconomic in the face of international action to limit climate change, UK-based financial think-tank Carbon Tracker Initiative ...
Tags: Fossil Fuel, natural gas, oil shale, oil sands
Through devices such as smart thermostats that allow users to remotely control household temperatures or LED lights that can be switched on and off from a smartphone, the much-hyped IoT concept has arrived in the residential setting. Major ...
Tags: thermostats, LED lights
In response to the shift in the lighting market toward semiconductor-based technologies creating new growth opportunities, lighting company Osram GmbH of Munich, Germany says that it is to invest about €3bn in new technologies and ...
Tags: Osram, Lighting, Opto Semiconductors