Tsinghua Unigroup of mainland China announced on Dec. 11 to acquire a 24.9 percent holding in Siliconware Precision Industries Co., Ltd. (SPIL) and a 25 percent stake in ChipMOS Technologies (Bermuda) Ltd. for total cost of NT$68.8 billion ...
Tags: Tsinghua Unigroup, semiconductor, Processing Machinery
The comparison between convetional and LED streetlights. (Photo Courtesy of LED Streetlight Upgrade Project of City of St. Catharines) On Dec 17, the City of St. Catharines, which sits in Southern Ontario, Canada, is switching its high- ...
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (R) holds a welcoming ceremony for Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev for the 20th China-Russia Prime Ministers' Regular Meeting in Beijing on Dec. 17, 2015. [Photo: gov.cn] China and Russia signed more than 30 ...
Tags: energy, investment, finance, bilateral cooperation
Rescuers work at the explosion site of a coal mine in Hegang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Dec. 17, 2015. The number of people trapped underground after an explosion at a coal mine on Wednesday afternoon has risen to 19, ...
A wild Siberian tiger is caught by camera in northeast China's Jilin Province on Dec. 10, 2015. [Photo: Xinhua] Traces of wild Siberian tigers have been spotted in forest farms in northeast China's Jilin Province, marking the expansion of ...
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (R) and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev meet the press after the 20th China-Russia Prime Ministers' Regular Meeting in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 17, 2015. [Photo: Xinhua] China and Russia signed ...
Tags: oil, gas, financial cooperation
A red alert for air pollution is going to take effect starting from this Saturday morning in Beijing. This is the second time this month that the highest level warning has issued for the Chinese capital. Emergency measures include an ...
Tags: Red Alert, Air Pollution
On Dec 10, Chinese musician couple Wang Jianxin and Li Fengyun gave a lecture to 600 students and teachers at Sekolah Harapan Bangsa School in Indonesia. [Photo by Liu Fang / Chinaculture.org] A series of lectures on Chinese classical ...
Tags: Culture Talk, ancient instruments
Trinley (right) performs at the Norbulingka Park in Lhasa during the Shoton Festival.[Photo provided to China Daily] Trinley, 76, narrates Buddhist folktales depicted in the Thangka paintings using a wooden stick. Usually, it takes hours, ...
Tags: Trinley, ancient art, Tibetan Tradition
The construction site of Hualong One is pictured here on Dec. 9, 2015. [Photo: CRI Online] The construction of China's nuclear power plant Hualong One, in southeast China's Fujian province, has made new progress, with part of its 13-layer ...
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang shakes hands with Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Masimov at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on December 14, 2015. [Photo: Xinhua] Premier Li Keqiang held talks with his Kazakh counterpart Karim Massimov in ...
The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee has held a meeting to solicit opinions from non-communist persons on the country's economic work, according to a statement released on Monday. While presiding over the meeting, which ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, crown prince of Abu Dhabi of the United Arab Emirates, in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 14, 2015. [Photo: Xinhua] A series of cooperation deals have been inked ...
Leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states attend a signing ceremony on Dec 15 after the 14th Meeting of Prime Ministers of SCO in Zhengzhou, Henan province on December 15, 2015. [Photo: Xinhua] The 14th prime ...
Tags: SCO, finance, regional trade
Liu Yongfu, director of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, briefs the media on China's plans to achieve the goal of poverty alleviation in the next five years on Tuesday, Dec.15, 2015. [Photo: ...