Researchers in France believe they have made preliminary steps towards establishing a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) platform for quantum information processing. Quantum information processing ...
Paper and packaging company Smurfit Kappa has acquired two Brazilian paper-based packaging companies including Industria de Embalagens Santana (INPA) and Paema Embalagens, for nearly €186m. INPA and Paema combinedly have three ...
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China's economy is going through a series of historic transitions, and recent short-term market volatility will prove temporary, experts attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2016 said on Thursday. The Chinese government ...
Tags: Economy Transitioning, Economy
Investment in China's railways in 2015 is still growing despite an economic slowdown. China spent 820 billion yuan (126 billion U.S. dollars) on rail projects in 2015 and put more than 9,000 kilometers of new track into operation, meeting ...
Tags: Railway, Investment
Economists and insiders are calling for more effective goverment supervision as a year of wild swings in China's stock market is coming to an end. China fought an unprecedented and costly war in 2015 to contain wide stock market ...
Hong Kong has replaced New York this year as the world's biggest IPO market by the amount of funds raised. According to data from Reuters, companies have raised 25 billion U.S. dollars from initial public offerings in Hong Kong so far ...
Tags: IPO Capital
China's banking regulator is reportedly to revoke the fund management qualifications of 17 domestic banks. It's understood the regulator has issued informal guidance to banks, warning them that their registrations will be removed. The ...
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has launched two new low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) for global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). Each device integrates all output ...
he Bank of Japan (BOJ) announced on Friday it would expand the size of its asset purchasing program while maintaining the same size of the monetary base, in a bid to drive wages higher and boost business spending, two mainstays of the ...
Tags: Bank of Japan Unveils, Increase Wages, Business Spending
China's securities supervisor said on Friday that it plans to stress test its securities and futures institutions to assess how they perform under extreme conditions. During the tests, conditions of a wide swing in the capital market or ...
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Hong Kong's Financial Secretary John Tsang on Friday expressed welcome to the mutual recognition of funds arrangement between the mainland and Hong Kong. "The mutual recognition of funds arrangement further deepens the mutual access ...
China's central bank on Saturday welcomed the ratification of the 2010 quota and governance reforms of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the U.S. Congress on Dec. 18, 2015. "Such approval means that the 2010 reforms, after ...
Tags: Ratification, IMF Quota Reform
MGP,a leading producer of premium distilled spirits and specialty wheat proteins and starches, announced that Dave Rindom has been named to serve as vice president and chief administrative officer of the company effective immediately. ...
Tags: MGP, premium distilled spirits, Agriculture
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority raised its base rate from 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent on Thursday, following the U.S. Federal Reserve's lead overnight and raising concerns of capital outflows from the region. The Hong Kong dollar's peg ...
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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 ...