BBC TV's Fake Britain programme - highlighting the illegal and unsafe mattresses on sale through major high street retailers - has catapulted the National Bed Federation's (NBF) new Code of Practice and Mark of Approval into the limelight. ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Who will steal the limelight at this years first consumer electronics show? Intel, Sharp – possibly Samsung or Huawei? Or maybe, just maybe you have to look towards something completely different; cars. "Let me assure you, fully ...
Tags: Electronics, Automotive Electronics, CES2014
Gemini Planet Imager's first light image of Beta Pictoris b, a planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. The star, Beta Pictoris, is blocked in this image by a mask so its light doesn't interfere with the light of the planet. In addition to ...
Tags: Gemini Planet Imager, image faint planets, exoplanet camera
Trends continued in the small car class in 2013, with almost a quarter of all new vehicle sales in Australia going to that segment, and its station maintained as the top-selling segment for the year with a 266,413 tally rising by 5.6 per ...
Tags: Small Car, Toyota, Corolla, Mercedes-Benz, B-Class
Mitsubishi has Australia's most satisfied new-car customers according to a new consumer rating survey. Mitsubishi?claimed top honours ahead of?BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mazda, Subaru, Toyota and Volkswagen?in the 2013 Canstar Blue car ...
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) and the Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA) have demanded a review of the Tk 5,300 minimum wage for garment workers recommended by the ...
Taiwanese LED chip manufacturer Epistar has released their 3Q13 financial results. Feeling the effects of LED for TV backlight applications inventory adjustments in 3Q, consolidated revenue for the quarter reached NT $5.75 billion (US ...
Leading Chinese insulin producer Gan & Lee Pharmaceuticals is brought under the limelight due to a bribery scandal. People in the know disclosed in an interview on September 9 that it was established in Beijing in 1998 and as the sole ...
The Kia Niro concept has been officially unveiled at the 2013 Frankfurt motor show, revealing a hybrid-powered city-sized SUV. Previewing a potential future sub-compact four-wheel-drive SUV to challenge the likes of the Nissan Juke, ...
Tags: Kia Niro, All-Paw Hybrid
Xiaomi paraded its new international figurehead on stage at a press conference late last week in Beijing, signaling to the world that the company is preparing to go global. Hugo Barra, the former Google executive Xiaomi poached last ...
Tags: Xiaomi, Homegrown Strategy
Sharply dropped share price of Kunlun Energy Co., Ltd. (SEHK: 0135) is expected to stop Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings from investing more in it. Kunlun Energy, a subsidiary of PetroChina Co., Ltd. (SHSE: 601857 and ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Bank of Beijing (SHSE: 601169), a city-level commercial lender in the Chinese mainland, is brought under the limelight owning to a president personnel change. It said in a statement recently that Yan Xiaoyan, the former president of ...
Tags: Beijing Bank, economy
“The Ultimate Driving Machine” was Bayerische Motoren Werke’s (BMW.FRA) iconic advertising slogan for years. The German automaker’s exclusive China partner Brilliance Auto (1114.HKG) should swap “driving” ...
Tags: BMW, Ultimate Profit Machine
Kia Australia has confirmed the all-new turbocharged Kia Cerato Koup will go on sale in Australia in a few months, marking the first performance orientated model in the company’s local lineup. Speaking at the launch of the new Kia ...
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Structural monitoring is something which is the basic element of earthquake engineering. The department of seismology is working upon discovering the seismic and seismo-tectonic activity information. The seismology of engineering changes ...