China has decided to remove administrative price controls on the salt market to foster competition, the country's top economic planner announced Sunday. The move will put an end to the nation's 2,000-plus-year state monopoly in the salt ...
Tags: Salt, Salt Market
China will lift price controls on most medicines starting from June 1, the country's economic planner said on Tuesday. Medicine prices will be decided by the market, said the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) in an online ...
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China will accelerate price reform this year in sectors such as electric power, head of the country's top price regulator said Thursday. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) will further strengthen its efforts on price ...
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Argentine oil production fell 0.4% in March compared with the year-ago period, while natural gas output rose 0.5% over the same period, an industry report showed Friday. Crude production declined to an average of 533,651 b/d in March from ...
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Recent progress at shale gas projects operated by China's state-owned giants Sinopec and China National Petroleum Corp. suggest the country is on track to meet the 2015 production target set by the central government, analysts said Monday. ...
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As China is executing its ambitious shale gas development plans to reach 6.5 billion cubic meters (cm) by 2015, the US' experiences in the industry may offer a number of lessons for China, US and Chinese academics concluded in a conference ...
Tags: Natural Gas, Mineral
Asset management of ageing switchgear equipment continues to be a thorny issue for both utility companies and industry. For utilities, with Ofgem's updated 'RIIO-ED1' price control regime due in 2015, transmission and distribution network ...
Tags: ageing switchgear equipment, utility companies and industry
China's independent teapot refineries in eastern Shandong province have significantly expanded their capacities in the last few years ahead of an end-2013 deadline set by the government to eliminate smaller plants. In an effort to cool ...
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Given that European households have deposits worth an impressive EUR 8.5 trillion, deposits are one of the cornerstones of the EU economic system. This represents one-third of total financial assets. Despite negative real returns in most EU ...
Tags: Deposits Business, European Banks
Muscle car is a term used to refer to a variety of high-performance automobiles. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines muscle cars as "any of a group of American-made 2-door sports coupes with powerful engines designed for high-performance ...
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The US energy industry must vigorously oppose efforts to restrict exports of liquefied natural gas, ExxonMobil Chemical President Stephen Pryor said Wednesday at the IHS World Petrochemical Conference. As the US Department of Energy ...
China's oil and gas companies could lift their total overseas equity production to 3 million b/d by 2015, the executive director of the International Energy Agency said Tuesday. "Chinese national oil companies are present everywhere in ...
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Communications regulator Ofcom has notified the European Commission of proposals to reduce prices for high-speed data links after finding that BT had "significant market power" in the £2bn-a-year market. Wholesale leased lines allow ...
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 has closed down 2.3 per cent at 4980.1, its biggest fall in nine months. More than $36 billion was wiped from the value of Australian shares in the market's largest one-day decline since May 18, pulling back from ...
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This two-part entry is actually the second half of my previous post about why there weren’t nearly enough bikes in model year 2012 and why we don’t seem to be able to do anything about the chronic under- or over-supply of ...
Tags: bikes, Model Years