Trade barriers bad for solar industry:Q&A with Phoenix Solar president and CEO Murray Cameron Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES,Taipei[Friday 12 October 2012]The US government announced the final verdict of the anti-dumpig and anti-subsidy ...
Tags: solar industry, trade barriers, Taipei, Phoenix Solar
The UK's Draft Data Communications Bill–aimed at making it easier for authorities to spy on electronic communications–will be useless and quite dangerous if enacted,says Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. "It will force many ...
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US announces final anti-dumping,anti-subsidy verdict on China-based solar firms Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Thursday 11 October 2012]The US Department of Commerce(DOC)announced its final verdict on the anti-dumping and ...
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China's leading technology firms Huawei and ZTE pose a threat to national security,warns a draft report by a US Congress committee. The report by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence concludes that both companies should be ...
CNA Canada, a property and casualty insurer, has announced availability of two national information sharing systems for its policyholders to help counter increasing instances of cargo and heavy equipment theft. Using CargoNet and the ...
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The companies make and distribute polystyrene(PS)foam trays and polypropylene(PP)rigid trays.These products are widely used for packaging food–such as fish,meat or cheese–in the retail sector. The EC said that these firms ...
Tags: EC, PS foam trays, PP rigid trays, EU antitrust rules
Sharp plans to withdraw solar panel production in EU and US Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Friday 28 September 2012]Japan-based Sharp plans to cut solar panel production in Europe and the US.The firm plans to gather resources ...
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Facebook has rejected claims that private direct messages sent between users of the social network were appearing publicly on the recently-introduced timeline feature. According to reports in France,private messages sent between 2007 and ...
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Facebook has been ordered by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner,Billy Hawkes,to turn off its face recognition feature. However Facebook intends the disabling of the face recognition tool to be only temporary."Our intention is to ...
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Faulty glass is to blame for the ongoing construction in the Doudna Fine Arts Center for more than a year now, the university architect said. Rex Hilligoss, the university architect, said he was there from the start to the finish of the ...
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Almost all China-based integrated solar makers facing financial pressure,says LDK Solar president Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Wednesday 19 September 2012]China-based LDK Solar recently announced a huge net loss for the second ...
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India likely to start anti-dumping probe into solar products,says China media Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES [Tuesday 18 September 2012]India's government has received complaints from the domestic solar industry asking it to ...
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Commentary:Global solar market losing energy Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Friday 14 September 2012]Since the second quarter of 2011,the global solar market has been a ship trying to sail in a hurricane.Solar markets in Europe ...
Tags: Global Solar Market, TSMC, Solon, Q-Cells, and Centrotherm
China's National Energy Administration recently disclosed that its target for new solar-powered plants during the 12th Five-Year Plan period is 10GW. The government also set its target for individual installations at 10GW. Additionally, the ...
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Taiwan solar firms reportedly plan to move equipment back from China Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Thursday 13 September 2012]China-based solar firms are currently facing anti-dumping investigations in the EU.Many Taiwan-based ...
Tags: Taiwan Solar Firms, Move, Anti-dumping Investigations, EU