China will try to quicken the pace of economic reform this year as part of the government's efforts to arrest a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy, the country's top economic planning agency said late on Saturday. The National ...
Tags: Faster Reform, Slowing GDP
The Japanese and Singaporean governments are moving to revise the economic partnership agreement they formed in 2002, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his counterpart, Lee Hsien Loong, expected to affirm the plan on Saturday. Japan will ...
The Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) has demanded that the Government put a ban on import of cotton and yarn from India through the Wagah border. The demand was raised at the Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting of PCGA, ...
Tags: Cotton Import, Yarn Import
In the January-April period of the current year, China's crude steel output amounted to 271.86 million mt, up 2.7 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on May 29. The growth rate in ...
Tags: Crude Steel, overall outputs
Iranian petrochemical traders currently sell all their products on a CFR basis in Asia instead of FOB to avoid payment issues, trade sources in Iran and Dubai said Tuesday. "We sell products on a CFR basis in countries like China so as to ...
Tags: Petrochemical
World cotton trade in 2014/15 is forecast to reach only 36.3 million bales, 10 percent below the previous season and the lowest since 2010/11. While imports by China have supported cotton trade over the last several seasons, expectations ...
Tags: Cotton Trade, Cotton
The Indian state of Odisha is expected to renew the iron ore mining licenses of 10 out of 26 local mines within two months, according to a Reuters report quoting an Indian government official saying the license renewal process will be ...
The World Bank will fund infrastructure projects worth $245 million to revamp facilities in Uganda's Albertine oil region, ahead of first oil production in the country, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni said in a statement Thursday. ...
Tags: Infrastructure Funds, Oil
China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has announced that in April of the current year coal shipments by Chinese railways amounted to 178 million mt, down 0.3 percent year on year, while in the January-April period this ...
Tags: Coal Shipments
In April this year, South Korea's total automotive (cars and commercial vehicles) output amounted to 433,799 units, up 1.95 percent month on month and rising by 12.34 percent year on year, constituting the third consecutive year-on-year ...
Tags: Auto Output, automotive exports
Global process control and yield management product leader KLA-Tencor’s newly launched Taiwan Training Facility continues to reflect the market’s important role in the company’s business strategy. New Taiwan training ...
Tags: KLA-Tencor, market demands
In May this year, the China HSBC Flash Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) increased to 49.7, the highest level of the past five months, up from April's final reading of 48.1, as announced by the HSBC on May 22. In particular, in ...
Tags: Flash Manufacturing PMI
According to the data released by the Japan Ship Exporters' Association (JSEA), Japanese new ship export orders in April this year decreased by 21.72 percent on tonnage basis compared to March, amounting to 29 ships, down from 47 ships ...
Tags: Ship Export, shipbuilders
Indications or offer levels for Angolan crude oil cargoes loading in July show a mixed picture compared with June, traders said Tuesday. Most offer or indications levels for Angolan crudes loading in July were either stable or higher ...
The Asian butadiene/naphtha spread narrowed to an eight-month low of $329.38/mt Monday, following the closure of the arbitrage window to move Asian butadiene to the US Gulf Coast. The spread value was last lower on September 12, 2013, ...