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 ...
China has realized universal power access when the last remote group of 39,800 people became able to light their homes with electricity. The light came on Wednesday in Gomang and Changjiang villages in the northwestern Qinghai province, ...
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Consumers are looking for resealable packaging that keeps their fresh produce even fresher, according to a report by Mintel. The Mintel report, called Locavore: Attitudes toward Locally-sourced Foods, concluded that consumers wanted fresh ...
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Ford has teamed up with the world’s leading mobile glass supplier to help build its next supercar. The new Ford GT will feature a Corning-made Gorilla Glass hybrid windshield, pegged as 30% lighter than normal glass. Corning is, ...
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Brazil's Braskem has been buying bigger volumes of naphtha from Europe in recent days due to low stocks in Brazil as the petrochemicals producer continues to negotiate with Brazilian state-led oil company Petrobras over the terms of a ...
We have heard it for a while now – “with the advent of LEDs, retrofit lamps are on their way out, and the future belongs to dedicated products such as integrated fixtures”. Today I’d like to take another look at this ...
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Restart of nuclear reactors in Japan, growing renewable sources of energy and a slow economy are expected to push down the country's LNG consumption by 2020 by as much as 10.5% from 2014 levels, Eclipse Energy said this week. Japan's LNG ...
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After more than doubling its strategic oil reserves since last year, China may apply the brakes to its buying spree as storage availability is expected to be limited, while a climate of depressed prices will reduce any urgency to snap up ...
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Plastic totes maker Newell Rubbermaid announced it was buying consumer and sporting goods maker Jarden in a cash and stock deal worth about $13.2 billion. The deal brings together two companies with numerous familiar consumer brands under ...
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The Buddha statue on display at the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest in March. [Photo/Xinhua] A 1000-year-old Buddha statue with a mummified monk inside, now in possession of Dutch private collector Oscar van Overeem, ...
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Supply chain logistics company Brambles has moved to 100 per cent ownership of keg logistics and distribution business Kegstar ahead of an expansion into the UK market. Brambles, which bought an initial 30 per cent in Kegstar in March ...
Publicly-listed organic infant food producer Bellamy’s has entered into a multi-million dollar agreement with dairy producer Fonterra. The strategic agreement has been made for five years and Fonterra Oceania Managing Director ...
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California-based Taylor Farms Pacific is recalling products containing celery and onions over fear of these products containing E. coli 0157:H7, a bacterium that causes diarrheal illnesses. The discovery came to light when samples ...
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New Zealand-based dairy company Fonterra has entered into a five-year strategic alliance with Bellamy’s to produce a new range of infant formula powders in Australia. Bellamy's Australia will supply organic ingredients to Fonterra ...
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Swedish automaker Volvo is teaming up with Silicon Valley giant Microsoft to develop next generation automotive technologies. The automaker is planning to use HoloLens to help customers configure their cars in three dimensions and to ...
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