Dubai has its famed Burj Khalifa, but the world’s tallest building is getting a lot of company these days with the business of building skyscrapers suddenly booming as the global economy recovers. The Shanghai Skyline (photo by ...
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Air Liquide Group, the world's largest industrial gas producer by revenue, has launched the second phase of its investment program, called Tengfei II, in China this year. The program caters to the country's growing demand for oxygen, ...
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The Indian paint industry has witnessed enormous growth over the past few years with rapid urbanization, revival of the economy and increase in the disposable incomes. This has put the paint market, specifically decorative paint market, on ...
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A forthcoming audit of overall government debt in China is expected to reveal the status quo of growing government debt and its potential risks amid the country's economic slowdown. The planned nationwide audit follows a previous one ...
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Construction expenditures in China are expected to rise 8.5 percent per annum in real terms through 2017. Ongoing urbanization and industrialization, rising income levels, further population and household growth, and the government’s ...
Australia's third-biggest iron ore producer Fortescue Metals Group Ltd (Fortescue) has announced its operating results for the second quarter of the current year. Fortescue CEO Nev Power pointed out that the company cut costs by 18 percent ...
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Despite China's slowing economic growth, the retail industry in the world's second-largest economy will maintain sustainable growth in the medium and long term, commerce officials said on Thursday. Meanwhile, the industry is undergoing a ...
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The Cotlook A Index rose to 96.65 cents per pound around mid-June 2013 before receding to the low 90s cents level towards the end of the month. On June 12th, the USDA increased 2012/13 U.S. export estimate to 3 million tons due to ...
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Bank of China, one of China's big four state-owned commercial banks, has stated in a report that China's gross domestic product (GDP) growth is expected to rebound to 7.8 percent in the third quarter of this year, amid acceleration of ...
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Few subjects in China today are more interesting or all encompassing than urbanization, particularly as we enter a fascinating demographic shift that will reduce the rate of urbanization. China is simply running out of bodies in the ...
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"Currently, energy conservation is the market trend; to replace traditional lights with LED lights could become the development direction in the next five years. The development prospects of our the LED lighting brands we agent will be very ...
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Road and street lighting is a key driver for LED technology in general lighting. In less than a decade, LED technology has created more turmoil in the lighting industry than anything occurring over the previous century. Every professional ...
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Despite depressed prices for seaborne metallurgical and thermal coal, Peabody Energy expects global coal demand to grow nearly 4% in 2013, and 13% in China and India combined, according to an investor presentation made Wednesday at the ...
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George R Hoguet, General Manager and global investment strategist of State Street Global Advisors said that China economy growth in the next half year will be almost the same as the first one's, maintain 7.5%. China economy has achieved a ...
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GE Lighting supplied Iberia LED fixtures to the ecotourism-centric Chinese island, while Leicester, UK, Melbourne, FL, and Long Beach, CA move forward with interesting projects. Gulangyu Island in China's Xiamen district hopes to reduce ...
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