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China's Cabinet Estimates This Year's Economic Growth Edged Down to 7.6%

Dec 26, 2013

China's Cabinet estimates this year's economic growth edged down to 7.6 percent and warned it faces pressure to decline further, a state news agency said Thursday. The forecast, reported by the Xinhua News Agency, is below the 2012 rate ...

Tags: Service, Economy

Investments in ICT Are Expect to Increase in 2014 in Africa

Dec 26, 2013

Investments in ICT are expect to increase in 2014 in Africa as both public and private spending rises and local content businesses partner with larger operators and tech companies, according to IDC. Adoption of data analytics and cloud ...

Tags: ICT Investment, Africa Market

Imports Will Account for a Major Chunk of China's Natural Gas Usage This Year

Dec 26, 2013

Imports will account for a major chunk of China's natural gas usage this year, even as the country strives to improve clean fuel usage, experts said. Wang Xiaokun, an energy analyst with Sublime China Information Co, a Chinese commodities ...

Tags: Natural Gas, Metallurgy

Shanghai Has Gained Initial Recognition From Industry Players Across The World

Dec 26, 2013

Shanghai has gained initial recognition from industry players across the world, reports Wei Tian In many areas, the steps taken in carrying out reforms remain cautious and foreign investors are still waiting for detailed policies, but the ...

Tags: FTZ, trade, logistics

Hainan Saw Over 2.51 Million Tourist Arrivals, and 8.96 Million Items Were Sold

Dec 26, 2013

The South China province of Hainan, famous for its resorts, has seen a surge in offshore duty-free shopping, with total sales revenue of 6.3 billion yuan ($1.03 billion) between April 2011 and Dec 2013. In that period, Hainan saw over ...

Tags: Duty-Free Sales, resorts

CSPM Expected They Can Win for The Positive Sales Profit

Dec 26, 2013

China Steel Precision Materials, the subsidiary company of Taiwan's China Steel Corp., expected they can win for the positive sales profit (before tax) by about RMB 1 million in whole 2013; CSPM was listed RMB 20 million loss in 2012. ...

Tags: steel, metallurgy

The Exports of Readymade Garments From Bangladesh Increased by 20.73%

Dec 26, 2013

The exports of readymade garments from Bangladesh increased by 20.73 percent in the first five months of the current fiscal year 2013-14 to US$ 9.653 billion, as against exports of US$ 7.995 billion made during the corresponding period of ...

Tags: Garment Exports, Apparel

The Global Economy Will Grow by 3% in 2014

Dec 24, 2013

The United Nations said, the global economy will be better over the next two years and grow by 3.0% in 2014, also still faces some uncertainty factors and downside risk. The main risk is the US exit the quantitative easing monetary policy ...

Tags: Global Economy, Economy

Meeting with Your Banker Has Taken on a Whole New Meaning at Umb Bank's Kirkwood

Dec 24, 2013

Meeting with your banker has taken on a whole new meaning at UMB Bank's Kirkwood, Mo. branch, where a robot and computer monitor are used to conduct some account services. UMB is one of a handful of national banks that are investing in ...

Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics

Gold Price Fell Below $1200

Dec 23, 2013

The price of gold slumped below $1200 an ounce last Thursday, the lowest in more than 3 years, after the US Federal Reserve pulled back on its stimulus program, Xinhuanet.com reported. Though the price of gold has tumbled nearly 30% in ...

Tags: Gold, Gold Price, Economy

The Forecast Represents a Global Jump of 33% in Just Five Years

Dec 23, 2013

Based on the data gathered by the "Solving the E-Waste Problem (StEP) Initiative," by 2017, all of that year's end-of-life refrigerators, TVs, mobile phones, computers, monitors, e-toys and other products with a battery or electrical cord ...

Tags: Electrical, Electronics

The Invention Is Directed to a Process for Making a Dielectricthe Insulating Material

Dec 23, 2013

The invention is directed to a process for making a dielectricThe insulating material between the plates of the capacitor. The material is chosen for its ability to permit electrostatic attraction and repulsion to take place across it. The ...

Tags: Electrical, Electronics

A Reader Raised an Interesting Concern About The Disposal of Chemicals

Dec 23, 2013

One of our readers from last month's article Make a PCB with your laser printer raised an interesting concern about the disposal of chemicals used to make a homemade PCB. In that particular article, we discussed making your own PCB using ...

Tags: Electrical, Electronics, CPU

Vietnamese Steel Sales in 2014 Will Increase to 4.6 Million Tons, up by 2%~3%

Dec 23, 2013

Vietnam Steel Association (VSA) estimates that Vietnamese steel sales in 2014 will increase to 4.6 million tons, up by 2%~3% from 2013 and that about 300,000 tons remain in the stock. It is expected Vietnam exports steel products total ...

Tags: steel, metallurgy, VSA

Japan's Economy Will Grow 1.4% in Fiscal 2014 on The Back of Domestic Demand

Dec 23, 2013

Japan's economy will grow 1.4 percent in fiscal 2014 on the back of healthy domestic demand, amid inflation of 1.2 percent — excluding the effects of the consumption tax hike in April, the government projected Saturday. The ...

Tags: Economy, GDP