The launching ceremony of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games is held on Tuesday, December 15, 2015. [Photo: bjnews.com] China has launched the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 ...
Scientists from east China's Zhejiang University have for the first time identified the relationship between airway diseases and environmental particulate matter (PM). Scientists discovered that autophagy, a normal physiological process ...
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Vessel traffic on a two-mile stretch of the Houston Ship Channel resumed at 12:34 pm CDT (1834 GMT) Monday, after a fire on board the Navigator Europa was extinguished, the US Coast Guard said. "The fire is out, all personnel are ...
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The NYMEX January natural gas futures contract settled at $1.990/MMBtu Friday, down 2.5 cents. A prompt-month contract has not settled lower since reaching $1.975/MMBtu on April 24, 2012. The fall in the January contract comes as the ...
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The Consumer Technology Association (CTA), formerly the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), announced that Dr. Herbert Diess, chairman, board of management, Volkswagen Passenger Cars, will deliver a keynote address at the upcoming CES ...
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The NYMEX January natural gas futures contract rebounded Monday from Friday's selloff to settle at $2.235/MMBtu, up 2.3 cents. The January contract dropped 8.7 cents Friday to settle at $2.212/MMBtu on the contract's first day in the ...
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Mexico will hold its first-ever electricity power auction in March, according to the country's National Center for Energy Control, or CENACE. CENACE on Thursday published an invitation to those interested in bidding in the auction. The ...
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The halving of Algeria's foreign revenues in just a few months has had a brutal impact on the country's economy, Prime Minister Abelmalek Sellal said Sunday, describing the current situation as "difficult." In an interview with state news ...
German engineering firm Voith has commissioned PM 53 paper machine at Holmen Paper's mill in Braviken, Sweden. The PM 53 is capable of producing a variety of paper grades ranging from newsprint to sophisticated SC papers, including the ...
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Soaring LED lighting penetration rates, followed by the maturation of LED lighting technology. Although, market demands have soared, LED lighting demand growth in mature markets have eased, due to intense pricing competitions. As a result, ...
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NYMEX December natural gas futures settled 10.2 cents higher at $2.364/MMBtu Thursday on the back of a bullish storage report. The US Energy Information Administration announced a 52-Bcf storage injection for the week ended October 30, ...
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The differential between the WTI frontline swap and the Dubai swap is at its widest since mid-January, possibly opening up arbitrage opportunities for imports into the US, Platts data showed. The December Dubai swap was trading at a ...
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Four islands in Fiji, Greece, the United Kingdom and Canada were put up for auction on China's largest online shopping platform Taobao, with three of them sold within 12 hours. Any Chinese citizen who put up a 1,000 yuan ($159) deposit ...
Tags: Islands, Taobao, Wealthy Chinese, ownership
Government officials, publishers and library professionals in the US and China gathered on Monday in Seattle to launch a joint exhibit on Chinese braille publications. They also shared ideas on how the government and community could ...
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Street performers say licenses provide a place to show off their talentsand some much-needed social recognition, reports Li Xueqing in Shanghai. One Friday afternoon in September, Xing Zhenhua opened his guitar case and began singing in ...