The China National Democratic Construction Association (CNDCA), one of China's non-communist political parties, celebrated its 70th anniversary on Wednesday. Sun Chunlan, head of the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party of ...
China on Wednesday welcomed a resolution adopted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to close the investigation into Iran's alleged nuclear activities, saying it may help implementation of a historic nuclear deal signed in ...
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A signing ceremony was held here Wednesday for China's donation of 1 million U.S. dollars in cash for quake relief in Afghanistan. A 7.5-magnitude devastating earthquake struck northeastern Afghanistan in late October this year, leaving ...
Tags: quake relief, assistance
Université Grenoble Alpes in France and Applied Materials in the USA have been developing techniques to grow gallium arsenide (GaAs) on silicon substrates with a small offcut angle [Y. Bogumilowicz et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, ...
Tags: GaAs, Quasi-Nominal Silicon, MOVPE
University of Cyprus, Cyprus University of Technology, and University of Crete have been exploring the potential of Frster resonant energy transfer (FRET) from an indium gallium nitride (InGaN) single quantum well (SQW) to a light-emitting ...
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UK-based RPC Group will acquire French closures and dispensing systems manufacturer GCS Group for €650m in a bid to bolster its position in European plastic packaging market. RPC proposes to fund the acquisition by combining ...
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ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on Thursday said Pakistani and Chinese political leadership were determined to further consolidate the all-weather and time-tested Pak-China friendship. The speaker said that CPEC ...
Tags: CPEC, socio-economic development, China-Pak Friendship
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani met with Vice President Li Yuanchao in Kabul on November 3. Li Yuanchao passed on the oral message from President Xi Jinping to President Ghani. President Xi Jinping sent his best regards and wishes to ...
China and Azerbaijan on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt. "The signing of the MOU shows that the substantial cooperation between the two countries has entered into a new ...
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Hu Kaihong: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the news briefing held by the State Council Information Office. The Johannesburg Summit and the Sixth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation ("FOCAC") will ...
Over 15 years after the establishment of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (the "FOCAC"), China-Africa economic and trade cooperation has become a highlight in international cooperation with Africa and a model of South-South ...
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The European passenger car market recorded almost 14% more registrations in November than in the same month of 2014, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association reported Tuesday, which should help boost demand for platinum and ...
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Century Aluminum is proposing to continue operating its 224,000 mt/year Mt Holly smelter in South Carolina at 50% capacity even as the company on Monday began shutting down the first potline in a dispute with its longtime electricity ...
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Russian-origin styrene butadiene rubber 1502 grade was seen being offered at prices similar to offers from mainland Europe this week eroding the Eur50-200 spread between product from the two sources through 2015, trade sources said. ...
Tags: styrene butadiene rubber, SBR-1502
Oman is close to awarding construction contracts and reaching financial close for its planned Liwa Plastics petrochemicals complex and Salalah LPG plant, sources close to the projects said Monday. Approximately $5.2 billion of funding is ...