The surprise choice of Go Away Mr Tumor instead of Wolf Totem as China's official entry for this year's Oscars has shocked local filmmakers, who say the Academy's rules 'aren't clear.' Xu Fan reports. Young Chinese director Han Yan was ...
Tags: Oscars, movie, Chinese-language movie
Famed pianist Zhu Xiaomei gives a recital during the Beijing Music Festival and she plays one of Bach's major works, Goldberg Variations. An annual musical event not to be missed took place at Wangfujing Church on Oct 13. Since 2006, the ...
Tags: Bank, Arts Sponsorship, music activities
To reach the goal announced by Premier Li Keqiang in August 2011 that the mainland should make efforts to realize basic liberalization of trade in services with Hong Kong through CEPA by the end of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, and approved ...
Assistant Minister of Commerce Tong Daochi led a delegation to Macao and inspected the supply of agricultural and sideline products to Macao by interior areas on February 9 to 10. The Delegation held talks with the Secretariat for Economy ...
Tags: agricultural and sideline products, Macao, meat, vegetables
Assistant Minister of Commerce Tong Daochi led a delegation to Hong Kong to inspect the supply of agricultural and sideline products by interior areas on February 11 to 12. The Delegation held talks with Ko Wing-man, Hong Kong's secretary ...
Tags: agricultural and sideline products, meat, vegetables, fruits
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has this week been finalised after negotiations began in 2010. The TPP centers on a free trade zone between 12 countries located around the Pacific rim including Australia, the US, New Zealand, ...
In Spain, they’re going on the offensive. Situated in the province of Girona, northeast of Barcelona, La Garrotxa is known for its volcanic landscape. It has become one of the first test sites for this kind of early warning system. ...
Tags: GE, smart LED lights, natural disasters
The City of Round Rock is demonstrating the future of street lighting in partnership with GigaTera, Planled and Opterra. The pilot program, designed by LED innovator Planled, puts cutting-edge streetlight and security systems at two ...
Tags: LED streetlight, pilot project, The City of Round Rock
gridComm, a provider of power line communication (PLC) solutions that enable the transformation of traditional power grid into a smart grid, announced it has signed a partnership agreement with a leading LED manufacturer in Indonesia, PT ...
Tags: gridComm, PT Siklon Energy Nusantara, smart street light solutions
The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been a strong advocate for the country’s LED lighting conversion to battle the power starved country’s use of electricity and conserve natural resources, reported local Indian ...
Tags: LED light, India market
Kees van der Klauw, Senior Vice President at Philips Research shares his insights on smart city streetlights in this blog entry. Within ten years, two out of three people will be living in urban areas, many of them in big cities, which ...
The Government of Uttar Pradesh in India is distributing 200,000 LED bulbs in local city Pilibhit at a discounted price of INR 100 (US $1.54) to encourage residents to swap incandescent bulbs for LEDs, according to an India Times report. ...
Tags: India, LED bulbs, Pilibhit, discounted price
Jules Verne said in Around the World in 80 Days: “Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.” Today, that is truer than ever before. Did you ever think it would be possible to communicate so easily with anyone around ...
Tags: LED streetlights, LED lighting
Around the world, people are seeing the LED streetlights that their city is installing, and many don’t like it. In this situation, there are two possible responses: living for a few decades with light you don’t like, or pushing ...
Tags: LED lamps, LED Lighting, LED streetlights
Vogue International, which owns OGX hair care products, has selected Avery Dennison's Global MDO film labels to cut down environmental fallouts of pressure-sensitive labels. With the adoption of the Global MDO film labels, the hair care ...