Congress on Wednesday avoided a government shutdown by passing a bill that keeps the government running through mid-December, but leaves unresolved a divide over federal spending that threatens to resurface this winter with more perilous ...
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UK-based RPC Group will acquire French closures and dispensing systems manufacturer GCS Group for €650m in a bid to bolster its position in European plastic packaging market. RPC proposes to fund the acquisition by combining ...
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Hu Kaihong: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the news briefing held by the State Council Information Office. The Johannesburg Summit and the Sixth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation ("FOCAC") will ...
On December 3 2015, the High-level Dialogue between Chinese-African Leaders and Business Communities and the 5th Conference of the Chinese and African Entrepreneurs, jointly held by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, China Council for the ...
Chinese TV producer Shen Jian (right) is a frequent guest at influential film events, such as the Academy Awards ceremony. [Photo provided to China Daily] Ang Lee turned down a number of interview requests from world media when his ...
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A poster of the exhibition. [Photo/eastday.com] An exhibition of African wood sculptures entitled "One Family, One Way" was held at Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall on Dec 5. Eighty-eight pieces of African wood carvings were ...
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China's foreign exchange reserves, the world's largest, fell by US$87.2 billion in November to US$3.44 trillion, central bank data showed yesterday, the lowest level since February 2013 and the third largest monthly drop on record. ...
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Grand River Foods has received funding worth $1.3m from Ontario to expand its processing facility in Cambridge, Canada. In addition to the funds it received from the Ontario Government, Grand River Foods will invest $13m in the ...
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New Zealand-based dairy cooperative Fonterra’s Australian unit is investing NZD$141m ($93.9m) in the construction of a modern cheese facility at its Stanhope factory premises. The new facility will be constructed in place of the ...
Clariant is planning to set up a new healthcare packaging manufacturing plant in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. To be built in Cuddalore, the proposed plant will see around CHF10m ($9.7m) in investment. It will cater to the growing ...
Hertfordshire, a county in southern England set out to save more money to bring relief to its cash strapped county council. Already Hertfordshire County Council has trimmed funding in several areas over the past year to save funds. Now ...
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The gold industry is not doing enough to combat debt and rising losses and not investing enough in exploration, Randgold CEO Mark Bristow said Tuesday. "A number of major companies in the industry today are simply not viable," Bristow ...
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Science & technology research firm UES Inc of Dayton, OH, USA says that its IBIS photoconductive semiconductor switch (PCSS) has been selected by an independent judging panel and the editors of R&D Magazine as a winner of a 2015 R&D 100 ...
China-based ZTE has received a cash injection from the government enabling the company to accelerate the development of its own application processors, while Lenovo also intends to develop ARM-based chips in-house, according to industry ...
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Africa-focused multinational consumer goods company Vasari Global along with UK-based asset management firm Duet Group, and the TIRET Group, which is an Ethiopian endowment fund, has unveiled an advanced brewery plant at Debre Birhan, which ...