The United States is honoring its role, to the best of its ability, as the world's locomotive, although despite the positive performance of the real estate market, America seems to be recovering slower than expected. The stumbling block ...
Tags: Glass Industry, Glass, glass market, Technological innovation
Australia's Lynas Corp (ASX:LYC) said on Wednesday it has received a temporary operating licence for its long-delayed and controversial $800 million rare earths plant in Malaysia. The permit, which allows Lynas to start operating as early ...
Tags: Asia, Lynas Corp, Malaysia, Rare Earth
Entering in the penultimate year before the general elections in 2014 aspirations are soaring high about an imminent policy push by the government to kindle growth and demand in economy. Even the year is expected to end on a dour note ...
Tags: penultimate year, economy, India, Steel
Hackers using a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) named Mirage have been engaged in a systematic cyber espionage campaign against a Canadian energy company, a large oil firm in the Philippines and several other entities since at least this April, ...
Tags: Hackers, RAT, Mirage, systematic cyber espionage, energy company
In accordance with the cautious optimism expressed among members during its annual meeting in September, the Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association reported strong year over year shipments in September, even as booked orders decreased ...
Tags: Cema, fall meeting, softening, industry view
Commodity trader Glencore has said it wants to be a "true leader" in global grain trading after completing its acquisition of Viterra in a deal worth US$6bn. Glencore said this week its completion of the deal hands it "immediate critical ...
Tags: Commodity trader Glencore, global grain trading, acquisition
The government has named the first public services to go digital, following the publication of 18 individual departmental digital strategies outlining moves to digital by default public services. The strategies detail how departments will ...
Tags: public services, digital, Apprenticeship Service, Environment
Reuters reported that Libya could proceed with a new round of oil exploration and production agreements in the current transitional period but the priority for now is to maintain pre war output levels and future targets. Mr Abdelbari ...
Tags: oil exploration, oil, oil output, Oil Corporation
The number of new IT and business process outsourcing contracts worldwide dropped by 20% to 411 in the second quarter from 516 in the same quarter a year ago, with average contract values also sliding, a research firm said. "The market is ...
Tags: new IT, business process outsourcing contracts, contract values
Despite vocal mistrust of e-voting, 151 Flemish municipalities in Belgium will use new electronic voting machines in October 14 elections. More than 60 percent of the country's Flemish citizens as well as voters in the Brussels region ...
Tags: e voting, Belgium, electronic voting machines, debate
The looming launch of a new iPhone may give the appearance of old times in tech. There's nothing like an upgrade frenzy with long lines at Apple stores. But nothing could be further from the truth. JPMorgan, Forrester and IDC this week ...
Tags: new iPhone, Washington, Apple stores
The results of the elections for International Cotton Association Ltd's (ICA) new leadership team have been announced at International Cotton Association Ltd's recent Annual General Meeting. Mr Ahmed Elbosaty (Chairman & Managing Director, ...
Tags: ICA, leadership team, Ahmed Elbosaty
As more than 12,000 unionized workers and supporters protested at the Capitol in Lansing, the Republican-led state House of Representatives gave final approval to a pair of "right-to-work" bills covering public- and private-sector unions. ...
Tags: auto industry, union rights, Michigan
OPEC ministers gathering in Vienna have two tasks ahead of them on Wednesday: fix crude output policy for the year ahead and appoint a new secretary general to succeed the outgoing Abdalla el-Badri. While the 12-member group appears ...
According to the market outlook released by IREPAS, the global association of producers and exporters of long steel products, in November this year long steel mills worldwide were in general bothered by lack of demand, the rise in scrap ...