Jiangxi Overseas Investment & Development Forum supported by Jiangxi Coporation for International Economic & Technical Cooperation was held in Zhongjiang International Hotel. The first signed project was solar power plant project of ...
Tags: PV Industry, African Market
South Africa-based financial services provider Sanlam is mulling to acquire a 40% holding in MCIS Zurich Insurance, in an effort to boost its presence in Malaysia. People familiar with the matter were reported by thesundaily as saying ...
Tags: Sanlam Mulls, Insurance
Google has reportedly launched an expansive effort to bring wireless networks and affordable computing to emerging markets such as sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, moves that could bring the Internet to a further billion people. The ...
A long-standing dispute over the problems surrounding Kenya's sole refinery in Mombasa is escalating, triggering fears the country could lose clout as an investment magnet for neighboring countries. A financial crisis at the aging plant ...
Tags: Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
International insurance solutions provider Clements Worldwide has launched a web-based marketplace to instantly deliver insurance protection needs for all of United Nations Federal Credit Union’s (UNFCU) 100,000 members worldwide. ...
Safaricom expects to increase its data market share in Africa after reporting an increase in both voice and data revenue for its latest fiscal year. For the ended March 31, after-tax profit jumped 39 percent year over year to 17.5 billion ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, Data Business
Summary - Global Safety Glass Market to 2017 - Market Size, Growth and Forecasts in Nearly 90 Countries is a comprehensive package that enables readers the critical perspectives to be able to evaluate the world market for safety glass. ...
Tags: Glass Market, Safety Glass
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in March this year Turkey's steel billet exports amounted to 288,225 metric tons, increasing by 47.4 percent compared to the previous month and almost quadruple ...
Tags: Billet Exports, Mineral
Textile employers in Kenya are unhappy over the 14 percent increment in minimum wages announced by the Government on May 1, 2013. Speaking to media, Chairman of Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM), Polycarp Igathe, said that any ...
Tags: Textile, Textile employers
This 19 year old Kenyan designer new that there was a better alternative than kerosene. In Africa kerosene lamps are still used in many areas and cause great harm to children and adults in rural African villages. Evan Wadongo created the ...
Tags: Solar Lamps, Lighting
LAUNCH members NIKE Inc., NASA, the U.S. Agency for Intl. Development and the U.S. Department of State convened 150 materials specialists, designers, academics, manufacturers, entrepreneurs and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) the week ...
There's a new movement to create a mechanism to certify and track coloured gemstones from their countries of origin. It began with a meeting a couple weeks ago in Hong Kong led by the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice ...
The number of facilities becoming certified to the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) increased 11 percent to surpass the 3000 mark in 2012, growing from 2,714 facilities in 2011 to 3,016 facilities in 2012, according to new data from ...
Tags: Textile Firms, Textile
Panasonic is planning to donate up to 100,000 of its solar LED lanterns to people without electricity in several countries in Africa and Asia by 2018, the 100th anniversary of the company's founding. The initiative, dubbed the 100 ...
April 16, 2013 - We’ve been educated on the importance of modifying our individual consumer behaviour and advocating for sustainable energy policies. Now, crowdfunding offers all of us a new way to protect our shared environment and ...