Minister for Industry Greg Combet says manufacturers should not sit back and wait for a fall in the Australian dollar – they must change with the times or risk failure. Mr Combet’s warning, reported by The Australian ...
The Senate Armed Services Committee plans to investigate what happened with a massive, failed U.S. Air Force ERP (enterprise resource planning) project, amid a rising tide of calls for action on Capitol Hill to reduce wasteful IT spending. ...
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Work on the Welsh government's Superfast Cymru programme is under way, the Welsh business minister Edwina Hart has announced. The project looks to deliver high-speed and "world class" broadband access to 96 per cent of Welsh homes and ...
Swansea University has welcomed the decision by Neath Port Talbot Council to grant detailed planning permission for its proposed pound 250m Science and Innovation Campus. The University is currently in the final stages of an EU ...
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Since fitting out the Amsterdam ArenA, home to Dutch football giants Ajax, when the stadium underwent a 1.4m acoustic transformation back in 2006, TM Audio has maintained a steady programme of maintenance and upgrade at the venue. Over ...
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HMRC has been slammed for being "unduly complacent" about the roll-out of the Real Time Information (RTI) system crucial to the Universal Credit programme, according to an official report. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is concerned ...
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AFP quoted British oil giant BP saying that it had agreed to sell its stake in China's Yacheng gas field to the state owned Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company as part of a divestment program. BP said that it has agreed the sale ...
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Forge Group Ltd advise that its wholly owned subsidiary, CTEC Pty Ltd has received a Notice of Award for a USD 105 million contract from WorleyParsons for the development of BHP Billiton’s Yarnima Power Station, three kilometres ...
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Reuters reported that Kazakhmys Plc plans to boost copper cathode output to 500,000 tonnes in 2017 when two new large scale projects come onstream. Mr Oleg Novachuk CEO of Kazakhmys Plc said that the company's copper production is ...
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Mr Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow president of Turkmenistan said that we have to work hard to create favourable conditions for the implementation of the Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India project. Mr Berdimuhamedow said that the ...
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Innovation, consensus and anarchy in Welsh IT Wales as a networked nation Welsh datacentre rationalisation programme Aligning technology to the needs of Wales Balancing Wales's IT books In many respects Wales has a far better track record ...
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In Paris Mr Alexander Medvedev deputy Chairman of the Management Committee of Gazprom JSC and General Director of Gazprom export LLC and Mr Tom Blades member of the Executive Board of Linde AG have signed MOU stipulating cooperation in ...
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According to Deutsche Bank AG, BHP Billiton Ltd, the world's biggest mining company may attract investment of USD 2 billion from fertilizer makers as well as sovereign wealth funds in its Canadian potash project. Deutsche analysts Mr ...
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Mantle Mining Corporation has returned high grade gold hits up to 24.9 grams per tonne from drilling at a prospect at the Granite Castle Gold and Silver Project in north Queensland. The best intercept from the Coronation prospect was in a ...
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The Peninsula reported that the Qatar Petroleum and Qatar Petrochemical Company joint venture project in Ras Laffan Industry City is scheduled for completion in 2018. With the launch of the USD 7 billion project, Qatar would emerge as one ...
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