The Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) has taken a stance against a Metrolinx plan that would regionally raise diesel taxes by five cents per litre, with funds going towards transit initiatives in the Toronto and Hamilton areas. "The ...
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VMware has launched its long-anticipated public infrastructure as a service (IaaS), touting its virtual networking capabilities as a differentiator from other established hybrid cloud offerings. VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service will ...
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Tony Sheldon. Photo courtesy of The Age. Unions need to take the intellectual lead in spelling out a vision for the future of Australia, according to Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) national secretary Tony Sheldon. Mr Sheldon told ...
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May 9, 2013 - Skilled worker training centres that are a partnership of labour and management are found to be more successful in helping apprentices become journeypersons, says a new study commissioned by the Ontario Construction ...
The Australasian Railway Association welcomed the release of draft legislation for new tax incentives that will promote investment in public infrastructure. "Any initiative that will encourage private sector investment into major ...
Beginning this week, Utilities Kingston will be replacing 9,000 high wattage street light heads with LED fixtures to reduce energy use. The project is city wide and expected to be largely completed by the end of 2013 at a cost of $4 ...
ChargePoint has launched the first of over the 80 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations to be installed around New York in the US. The charging stations have been installed with a funding of $1m from the New York State Energy Research ...
Firecomms Ltd of Cork, Ireland, a manufacturer of fiber-optic solutions and optical transceivers, has appointed Weikang Jiang to the newly created role of director of Sales and Marketing for the Greater China region, operating out of the ...
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Reportedly, the Brazilian government plans to auction an investment of new railways worth BRR 91 billion in April and June. According to the top official at Brazil’s steel planning company, Vale SA, MRS Logistica and ALL America ...
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Fitch said that Western European steel output is unlikely to recover in 2013 due to depressed demand levels across the eurozone. Steel volumes will probably fall by up to 3%, Fitch Ratings believes, putting pressure on producers' ...
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Reuters reported that consumption of copper cathode is likely to grow more slowly in China in 2013 cooling further after the pace of growth looks set to drop by at least a third this year. Senior metals executives said that demand for ...
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Reuters cited Mr Thomas Keller CEO of Codelco as saying that company expects the global copper market to swing into a slight surplus in 2013 after several years of deficit but the small excess will have little impact on prices. ...
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Reuters reported that London copper inched up after a prominent US lawmaker expressed confidence the world's top economy would avert a looming fiscal crisis but worries China's return to growth will be sluggish weighed on sentiment. ...
II . Economy i. GDP Data The GDP of Qinghai reached RMB54.32 billion yuan in 2005, and the gross production of per capita reached RMB10,043 yuan, In addition, RMB 6.279billion yuan of added value was increased in primary industry, RMB ...
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Taipei, Nov. 20, 2012 (CENS)--The Insurance Bureau, under the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), put forth yesterday (Nov. 19) seven major control measures for investments by insurance firms in realties, effective immediately, which ...
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