Total revenue for Taiwan-listed LED makers fell from NTD10.96bn in May to NTD10.6bn in June, as the LED market was affected by declining demand for backlight application and stocktaking, according to LEDinside (a subsidiary of industry ...
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China’s real estate market remained strong in the first half of the year on healthy housing demand, despite government market controls and slowing growth, The Wall Street Journal reported. Data released by the National Bureau of ...
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The Chinese government has been busy probing Western firms this week. On Monday, the country announced it would investigate EU wine dumping into the Chinese market, an action that could see prices hiked on imported wine this year. On ...
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The Chinese government has launched probes into Swiss packaging company Tetra Pak and New Zealand dairy company Fonterra (FCG.NZE), The Wall Street Journal reported. China's State Administration of Industry and Commerce announced on Friday ...
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Chinese have been using the green and leafy andrographis paniculata to treat inflammation, fever and pain for decades, with its cultivation dating back to at least the 1950s in the southern province of Guangdong. The plant, better known ...
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Chinese communications providers Huawei and China Mobile have successfully deployed 4G coverage on Mount Everest, some 5,200 metres above sea level. The two firms demonstrated a series of new 4G services at a ceremony marking the launch ...
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China's state-owned offshore monopoly producer China National Offshore Oil Corp says it supports the Chinese government's position over Japan's recent protests about Chinese drilling activity in the East China Sea. "We do not understand ...
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A second foreign manufacturer of baby formula is planning price cuts amid an investigation by China's top economic planner. Dumex, part of France's Danone group, said Thursday it was preparing a price reduction proposal. On Wednesday, ...
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China has built glittering metropolises in the span of roughly three decades of reform and opening. But in an equal span of time, shiny urban centers risk losing their shining façades or even descending into slums thanks to poor ...
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Widespread geographical diversification of PV installations will quadruple supply in five years, says Lux Research. EPIA's global solar forecast (click to enlarge) With high-profile bankruptcies, shrinking subsidies and a ...
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MasterCard didn't make a peep earlier this month when word leaked that Beijing had halted the company's transactions in renminbi. Leaked documents didn't show when the payments were terminated, but the central bank effectively stopped the ...
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The mobile machine-to-machine (M2M) market is booming, growing by 25 per cent in 2012, according to analysts Infonetics Research. The organisation pins a value on the market of $1.5bn. "To put things in perspective, the mobile M2M module ...
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As Chinese government spares no effort to promote the popularity of outdoor lighting,as well as the LED luminaries is listed for energy-saving subsidies for the first time,many industry insiders predict that LED interior lighting will usher ...
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The Chinese Government has given its final approvals to the BP Global Petrochemicals and its partner Zhuhai Port for the construction of a third purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant at Zhuhai, Guangdong. Expected to start up in late ...
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British multinational oil and gas company BP and its partner Zhuhai Port have received final approval from the Chinese Government for the construction of a third purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant, at Zhuhai, Guangdong. PTA is a key ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, oil, gas