A bank in Yunnan province has started to provide direct currency exchanges between Chinese yuan and Thai baht, a move aimed at further opening up Southwest China to Southeast Asia. Tourism agencies say there is an increasing demand for ...
A team of researchers from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Engineering has developed a new Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM) technology that will boost ...
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The U.S. government announced six states on Monday that will develop test sites for drones, a critical next step for the march of the unmanned aircraft into American skies. Alaska, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Texas and Virginia will ...
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Kamloops, British Columbia will be home to a new parts and distribution centre for Fleet Brake. The new Fleet Brake facility is scheduled to open in February 2014. "We are excited to expand product and service to our legacy mining, ...
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XPO Logistics Inc. said it has closed its purchase of NLM, a Web-based freight auction site, from truckload carrier Landstar System Inc. XPO paid $87 million for the business, which it will rebrand as XPO NLM, it said in a Dec. 30 ...
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Vale S.A. (Vale) informs that it is declaring force majeure (FM) on a number of its iron ore sales contracts as a result of the weather conditions in the Southeast of Brazil. Heavy rainfalls since December in the Southeast of Brazil, ...
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For 10 percent of the time U.S. drivers are behind the wheel their eyes are off the road due to eating, reaching for the phone or texting, researchers say. Study co-author Bruce Simons-Morton of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National ...
Starting this month, Canada Revenue Agency is sending out 33,000 letters to help Canadian taxpayers (as they put it) "better understand their tax obligations and to encourage them to correct any inaccuracies in their past income tax and ...
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The pace of China's economic growth saw an uptick in Q3 2013, finishing the quarter with real GDP increasing 7.8% year over year, according to the most recent China Commercial Vehicle Outlook. The report is jointly published quarterly by ...
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US for-hire truck tonnage jumped 2.7% in November, achieving a new record high. The American Trucking Associations’ for-hire truck tonnage index was up 8.1% year-over-year in November. Year-to-date, tonnage is up 5.8%, the ATA ...
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On December 30, China's Ministry of Transportation announced that the total length of China's railway network has reached 100,000 km, with new railway lines totaling 2,000 km entering service on December 28. The railway lines in question ...
Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) is a voluntary program that is available to cattle producers throughout the country and gives guidelines on production and management. Practices taught through BQA certification classes promote management ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was busy in 2013, especially when it came to the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). As the year draws to a close,?Food Safety News decided to take a look back at the agency's comings and ...
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Flat rolled aluminum products are very important products in nowadays industry. They are being used widely in many different areas of life and production. The areas where these products are being used vary from automobile, construction, ...
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In the January-November period this year, the aggregate gross profits of large and medium-sized industrial enterprises in China amounted to RMB 5.3338 trillion ($871.5 billion), increasing by 13.2 percent year on year, according to data ...