Netherlands and France will jointly work for improvement of working conditions in Bangladesh. Netherlands Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Lilianne Ploumen met French Minister for Foreign Trade Nicole Bricq in Luxembourg and ...
Tags: Bangladesh, Apparel
Millions of mobile phone users across the European Union (EU) are set to benefit from fast-tracked reforms of telecoms regulation, which include an end to roaming charges. The 27 European Commissioners voted on Tuesday in Brussels to end ...
Tags: EU, Mobile Roaming Charges
Microsoft routinely passes on details of security flaws in its own software to the National Security Agency (NSA) before it has produced and issued patches to users of its software around the world. The news partly confirms widely held ...
Global natural gas consumption rose 2.2% on the year in 2012 to 3.3 trillion cubic meters, but stayed below the historical average increase of 2.7%, while global LNG trade fell for the first time on record, BP said in its annual statistical ...
LED lighting in buildings to reach $25bn by 2017 13 Jun 2013 Report reviews the future of emerging technologies that are "driving change in the LED value chain". Memoori of the future: The report reviews the prospects for LEDs in ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Lights, Lighting
Europe solar installations are forecast to fall by more than 6GW in 2013, with 1.3 GW of this decline attributed to incoming EU anti-dumping duties on China-made modules, according to IHS. IHS has cut its forecast for the second half of ...
Tags: Anti-Dumping Duties, Energy
Philippine Vice President Jejomar Binay calls for STCW audit assistance at GL Maritime Round Table Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013 Germany and the EU cannot possibly have world-class efficient commercial ships manned by Filipinos today, and ...
Tags: Transportation
Turkey, situated at the crossroads of Asia and Europe, provides good opportunity for Galician companies, including textile firms. This was one of the conclusions drawn at the conference on “Turkey: A Good Opportunity for the Galician ...
Tags: Galician Textiles, Textile
Euratex held its General Assembly the 29th May in Brussels in presence of industrialists, Textile and Clothing (T&C) experts and EU officials under the theme “Textile and Clothing Industry in a changing economic environment”. ...
Tags: Euratex, Economic Environment
Renewable packaging material provider BillerudKorsnas has received approval from the EU Commission with regard to its proposed divestment of kraft and sack paper producing machine (PM2) to SwedPaper. According to BillerudKorsnas, the ...
Tags: Billerudkorsnas, Paper Machine
The Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes (PEFC) has implemented the announced changes to its chain-of-custody (COC) standard in connection with the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR). The new standard took effect on 24 May ...
Tags: EUTR Requirements, Construction
EU Commissioner for Justice Viviane Reding has raised her concerns over the Prism surveillance information-sharing programme with the US Attorney General Eric Holder, who she is to meet in Dublin on Friday. In a statement on her website, ...
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Starting in October 2015, all new cars in the European Union would have to be fitted with an eCall device, according to new draft legislation announced Thursday. ECall technology installed in a car automatically dials 112 -- Europe's ...
Glass for Europe, an association made up of Europe’s flat glass manufacturers, has issued a statement related to the European Commission’s (EC) anti-subsidy investigation into imports of solar glass from China. In the statement, ...
Outokumpu will sell Terni plant, the Europe's biggest and most modern steel plants as a condition for the EU authorities to approve its acquisition of Inoxum. However, Outokumpu was not satisfied with the number of bids or the price ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy