According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in January this year Turkey's total hot rolled coil (HRC) exports amounted to 114,083 metric tons, up 2.8 percent compared to the previous month and more than ...
Tags: HRC Exports, Metallurgy, Mineral
There is no other remedy for curbing fire incidences in readymade garment factories in Bangladesh except enforcing a law requiring adherence and improvement in compliances relating to construction of factory buildings, fire fighting ...
Tags: Compliance Law, Bangladesh Garment Factory Fires, Apparel
The 11.8m Euro pan-European project NEWLED (‘Nanostructured Efficient White LEDs based on short-period superlattices and quantum dots’) is aiming to develop a new generation of 50-60% energy-efficient white light-emitting LED ...
Tags: LED lighting, LEDlighting
The European Commission today agreed the draft mandate for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement with the United States, effectively firing the starting gun for what is hoped to be a relatively quick negotiation. The ...
Tags: Service, Free Trade Agreement
Gaming fans will soon be able to navigate Nelson Mandela's South African apartheid prison on Robben Island in a new computer game, developers have announced. The game, designed to be an educational tool, will be modelled on life on the ...
Tags: computer game, Gaming, game
Annual inflation in the euro area was 1.8 percent in February this year, down from two percent in January, according to a report released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities. In February 2012, the annual ...
Tags: Euro area, inflation, annual inflation
The textile and garment exporters of India are pinning hopes on Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the European Union (EU) and India as it is expected to boost their exports to the EU. Speaking to fibre2fashion, managing director of ...
Intertek, a provider of safety solutions, has announced that it has completed a European Union (EU) 10/2011 testing program involving about 30 grades of food contact stock shape materials for Quadrant. Within the EU, all plastic food ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Due to the withdrawal of the EU GSP Plus (GSP+) trade concession and the ongoing recession in the largest apparel export markets such as the US and the EU, Sri Lankan garment exporters are eyeing on new and emerging markets for exports. ...
Tags: Apparel Exporterr, Eye Emerging, Apparel
In the fourth quarter last year, the number of persons employed in the euro area decreased by 0.8 percent while employment in the European Union (EU-27) decreased by 0.4 percent, both compared with the corresponding quarter of 2011, ...
Tags: employment, euro area, construction sector
In January this year, seasonally-adjusted industrial production decreased by 0.4 percent in the euro area and in the EU-27, as compared with December 2012. In December 2012, production had increased by 0.9 percent and 0.8 percent month on ...
Tags: Industrial Output, economy
Reporters Without Borders named five countries that regularly spy on journalists and dissidents, a practice the group contends is made possible with advanced technology from private companies. The Paris-based group, which is an ...
The way the world is lit up could be revolutionized by a new European-wide research project being led by the University of Dundee. The 11.8 million Euros NEWLED project aims to develop a new generation of white light-emitting LED lights, ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics, Lights, Lighting
The European Economic Advisory Group at CESifo (EEAG)* has released its twelfth Report on the European Economy today in Brussels. The international group of scholars expects world GDP to grow by 3.3 percent this year, up from 3.0 percent in ...
Tags: European Economy, GDP, economy
In some funny places in the outside world, Switzerland is known as being a country full only of rich people with golden Swiss wristwatches eating Swiss (!) chocolate 24 hours a day. This by far is not true. However, in each rumor there is a ...
Tags: Switzerland, culture, Swiss