China's passenger car sales grew nearly 8 percent in the first four months from a year ago, with deliveries of SUVs soaring almost 49 percent, according to latest data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers yesterday. From ...
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The NDRC said the increase followed gains in international oil prices due to a tense geo-political situation in the Middle East and a weakening dollar.China has a pricing regime which adjusts domestic fuel prices when international crude ...
Foton Motors released the sales data on April 29 in the first quarter this year, and their sales revenues were 8.392 billion Yuan, down 13.57% over last year, and the profits were 125 million Yuan, down 42.01% over last year. And they ...
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TomTom (TOM2) is introducing Lifetime World Maps and Lifetime Speed Cameras1 to drivers with the launch of new TomTom navigation devices. Lifetime World Maps allows people to drive with maps from around the world at no extra cost, for the ...
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Audi and its partners have developed new high-resolution map materials for driver assistance systems for the Audi Q7 car. A notable aspect of the new solution is the predictive assistant that uses topography information to allow Audi ...
All the world's cropland is a difficult task. Yet the competition for land among developers, growers and other parties makes getting an accurate count of the world's arable acres especially important as the planet's population grows. The ...
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The Australian retail sector is expected to see a further slowing in growth nationally, with the AFGC CHEP Retail Index showing growth of 4 per cent year-on-year in the March quarter, slowing to 3 per cent by the June quarter. Within this ...
Tags: Retail Sales, retail sector
Plans for labelling the calorie content of alcoholic beverages should be tabled by the European Commission at the latest in 2016, according to members of the European Parliament. The resolution calls for a new EU Alcohol Strategy focusing ...
Year-over-year prices for finished steers remain high, but it looks like in general, cattle futures have peaked for the season, and that's likely to trim gains heading into summer. The cattle business has responded to supply-driven price ...
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Most trade analysts expected corn planting to have reached just shy of the halfway point by Sunday, but USDA's Crop Progress report released Monday shows that point came and went quickly in the last week, with planting sitting at 55%. ...
Tags: Corn Planting, corn, Soybean prices
China raised the consumption tax on cigarettes from five percent to 11 percent, announced the Ministry of Finance in a statement on Friday. Each cigarette will be taxed an additional 0.005 yuan during the wholesale process, effective from ...
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In order to pick the best yarn clearer equipment, Chinese spinner Shandong LiaochengHuarun Textile which produces super fine cotton yarn counts conducted trails on yarn clearers of various makes. In the trial, Uster clearers were ...
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The growth of China’s express industry has slowed down in the first quarter. Express companies's volume increased 41.7% and business revenues increased 31.6%. China's express delivery is moving along in a growth momentum as the ...
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M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has launched a high-linearity 6W power amplifier, suited to ...
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Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany has added the P2W 01 LED to its Ostar Projection series. The new LED contains four chips that can be controlled in two separate groups, providing an integrated solution that, in the ...
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