Despite the holiday season, worldwide tablet shipments declined 13.7% on year to 65.9 million units in the fourth quarter of 2015, according to IDC. Total tablet shipments for 2015 were 206.8 million units, down 10.1% on year. Despite ...
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China's apparent oil demand in 2015 grew 5.8% year on year to 11.11 million b/d, the fastest pace since 2011, despite the country's economy growing at the slowest rate since 1990, Platts calculations based on recently released official data ...
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Total shipments of smartphones by China-based vendors grew 8.8% on quarter and 18.3% on year to 154.2 million units in the fourth quarter of 2015, according to the latest data released by Digitimes Research. Of total shipments, China ...
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Taiwan-based makers in the iPhone supply chain must have been aware that sales of iPhone 6s and 6s Plus have gradually lost their momentum, meaning Apple's orders for iPhones and related parts and components are going to decline in the ...
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China saw a record number of firms established in 2015 despite the slowing economy, official data showed. Chinese set up a total of 4.44 million companies last year, up 21.6 percent from a year ago, which means 12,000 new companies every ...
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China continued to see a deficit in foreign service trade in November but the volume has narrowed, data from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) showed on Wednesday. The deficit came in at 15.6 billion U.S. dollars, ...
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Twenty-five members of China's top leadership criticized themselves and each other at a two-day meeting which ended on Tuesday. But unlike the attacks, defamation and even insult commonly seen in western political rivalries, the ...
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November 7th saw an historic meeting between leaders from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. Since then, the two sides have already begun to implement agreements reached at that meeting. At the same time, the mainland has re-iterated the ...
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“Million Kilometers Quality Testing Activity” of GAC Hino in Guangzhou began on December, 19, 2015. The journalists of Chinatrucks Net. not only saw the charming GAC Hino “Hero” heavy-duty truck which do not need ...
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A growing number of people in Hong Kong's music industry are said to be looking for ways to change their business model, in an attempt to make the once-booming industry flourish again in the city. Hong Kong's music scene saw its golden ...
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U.S. space agency NASA announced on Monday it has found "strong" evidence that there is liquid water intermittently flowing on present-day Mars. Images taken from the Mars orbit showed dark, finger-like markings that, typically less than ...
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Profits of China's major industrial firms fell 1.4 percent year on year in November, narrowing from a 4.6-percent decline posted in October, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Sunday. Profits at industrial companies with ...
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Housing prices in China are expected to grow steadily in 2016, while divergence between bigger and smaller cities will continue, according to a property research organization. Government policy has perhaps helped to ease the housing glut ...
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Taiwan's machine-tool makers have entered into an alliance with the island's aircraft builders and a government-backed laboratory to develop intelligent industrial technology to sharpen their machine tool capability to manufacture aircraft, ...
Tags: aircraft-building, intelligent industrial, Processing Machinery
China will continue to actively destock its massive property inventory over concerns that the ailing housing market could derail the economy. Along with cutting overcapacity and tackling debt, destocking will be a major task in 2016, ...