Dun & Bradstreet’s latest Business Expectations Survey indicates a fairly subdued outlook for the first quarter of 2016, as results continue to fall short of expectations. As the new year approaches, businesses are reporting lowered ...
Top Taiwanese LED manufacturers Everlight and Epistar revenues for second quarter of 2015 were impacted by trending low LED prices on the market, according to a China Times report. Even though Epistar revenues made a turnaround in second ...
More than 5,000 British students will be taught Mandarin in schools, after a 15 million US dollar funding boost announced Wednesday by the British government. Last year, only about 2 percent of state funded primary schools in Britain and ...
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Following the example of The Precious Collection of the Stone Moat, a special gallery featuring traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting in the Palace Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced it will hold a world-class ...
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2014 marked the 35th anniversary of the establishment of China-U.S. diplomatic relations. China-U.S. trade and economic cooperation continued deepening and developing. Bilateral trade and investment maintained steady growth and the ...
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The 23rd Meeting of China-France Trade and Economic Joint Committee was held in Beijing on May 15. Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng and French Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development Laurent Fabius co-chaired the opening ...
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Luxtera, the global leader in Silicon Photonics solutions, today announces the hiring of Brad Byk as Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Kelly Perez as Vice President of Finance. Luxtera will leverage their considerable experience and ...
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British alcoholic beverages company Diageo is including nutritional information on the packaging of its whisky brand Crown Royal to provide readily available facts to consumers. Crown Royal is the first alcohol beverage brand to ...
It’s a long way from New York’s Madison Avenue advertising agencies to Gaborone, but for Botswana a lot is riding on the success of the ad campaign De Beers will launch in the coming weeks. Like oil-exporting countries now ...
Don’t be fooled by the pitch that touts shortage as a reason for investors to plough dollars into the diamond mining sector. In fact, like many other commodities in the world today, the diamond industry is also drowning in a supply ...
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The British Furniture Confederation (BFC) is pleased to recognise Stephen McPartland, who has been MP for Stevenage since 2010, for his outstanding support for the British furniture, furnishing and bed industry since he entered Parliament. ...
The Chinese government is struggling to meet its fiscal targets this year, finance minister Lou Jiwei warned on Sunday, citing slowing fiscal revenue growth. The central treasury received 2.95 trillion yuan (about 475 billion U.S. ...
Finance minister Arun Jaitley who is on a visit to the US, has said that economic reforms in the legislative pipeline can push India's growth rate above the current range of 7 to 7.5 per cent. India's economy, Asia's third largest, is ...
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China is set to boost local debt swap by admitting municipal bonds as collateral for borrowing. Under the new rule, banks can pledge municipal bonds as collaterals in the central bank's repurchase agreement operations and other liquidity ...
It was reported on 25 March 2015 that new Country of Origin Labelling laws will be delayed until at least August 2015 despite the Prime Minister’s announcement on 16 February 2015 that country of origin labelling proposals for reform ...
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