It's been reported that online financing and retail investment platform JD Finance, a subsidiary of JD.com, is preparing a 5-billion-yuan Series A funding round with a domestic IPO targeted in 2017. Media reports say the Series A will ...
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Sony will choose from three new scripts after being "underwhelmed" with effort from Juno writer Diablo Cody. Sony is weighing up three new scripts in its ongoing development of a live action Barbie movie. Variety reports that having ...
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Sonoco Consumer Products Europe is planning to close two of its tobacco production plants in Germany, resulting in the removal of 100 employees. The Bunde plant in Northwest Germany will be closed by May 2016 and Hockenheim 3 plant in ...
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China Southern Airlines has announced an order to purchase 10 Airbus aircraft worth over 2 billion U.S. dollars, to help meet the growing demand for travel in China. The wide-body aircraft are expected to be delivered between 2017 and 19. ...
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Finland-based consumer and specialty packaging manufacturer Huhtamaki is expanding manufacturing capacity at its molded fiber packaging plant in Lurgan, Northern Ireland to better serve the growing egg market in the UK and Ireland. Work ...
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Wanda Group will build a shopping complex in downtown Urumqi, capital of west China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, it announced on Friday. The shopping complex, with an investment of 3.5 billion yuan (540 million U.S. dollars), will ...
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China and Pakistan ink a financing agreement on a coal power project in Pakistan’s Thar Coalfield. China and Pakistan have inked a financing agreement on a coal power project located in the Thar Coalfield in Pakistan. The project ...
Acura today announced additional launch details for the next-generation 2017 Acura NSX supercar, coming to market next spring, including pricing and the order taking process. Acura also revealed plans to auction off the very first serial ...
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In some regions, light-emitting diode (LEDs) are expected to comprise more than half of new horticultural luminaire sales as early as 2017, according to the report 'LED Lighting for Horticultural Applications' from market analyst firm ...
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The comparison between convetional and LED streetlights. (Photo Courtesy of LED Streetlight Upgrade Project of City of St. Catharines) On Dec 17, the City of St. Catharines, which sits in Southern Ontario, Canada, is switching its high- ...
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (R) and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev meet the press after the 20th China-Russia Prime Ministers' Regular Meeting in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 17, 2015. [Photo: Xinhua] China and Russia signed ...
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Investment bank Goldman Sachs late Wednesday lowered its iron ore price forecast for 2017 by $5/dmt to $35/dmt CFR China after a faster-than-expected softening in seaborne prices. "Iron ore prices have reached our $40/dmt forecast one ...
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The 20-year cost of the Midcontinent Independent System Operator's compliance with the US Clean Power Plan could be as little as $5.8 billion to as much as $104 billion in today's dollars, depending on which strategies are pursued, ...
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Jaguar today announced its return to global motorsport. In the autumn of 2016, Jaguar will enter the third season of the exciting FIA Formula E Championship as a manufacturer with its own team. FIA Formula E is the world's first global ...
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Tax revenue from coal production in the Australian state of Queensland is forecast to rise to A$1.93 billion ($1.4 billion) in fiscal year 2016-2017 (July-June), based on assumptions that hard coking coal prices will average $100/mt in the ...