Renault has formed a joint venture (JV) with Société Nationale de Véhicules Industriels (SNVI) and National Investment Fund (FNI) for the development of the automotive industry in Algeria. The plant will include ...
Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), the department that oversees three airports in the LA area, recently implemented a business continuity and disaster recovery plan for the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). As part of the effort, the ...
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Somerset County Council's troubled outsourcing contract with Southwest One has stalled the authority's programme of cost cuts, according to a Conservative member of its cabinet. Southwest One, a shared services venture with IBM in which ...
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CSC has stemmed losses in its 10-year outsourcing deal with Royal Mail through a combination of job cuts, tax breaks and relief payments, according to an analysis of eight years of published accounts for the venture. The supplier signed ...
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Upon completion, the project will provide the southwest of England based farm with a guaranteed rental income over the next 25 years, and a regular supply of clean electricity direct to the national grid. The 18,000 PV panels will be ...
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The discovery of high grade mineralisation has been confirmed by African Eagle's joint venture partner on the Miyabi gold project in Tanzania. Rift Valley Resources has just completed the second phase of drilling for 2012 at the project, ...
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The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) E1300, "Standard Practice for Determining Load Resistance of Glass in Buildings," has been updated from its 2009 version, according to the Schaumburg, Ill.-based American Architectural ...
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Enterprise Metals has identified four more copper prospects from aircore drilling and soil sampling at its Doolgunna project, 130 kilometers northeast of Meekatharra. Sandfire Resources' DeGrussa Project is located about 10 kilometers to ...
Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co is relocating output to deal with rising power costs in the wake of last year's nuclear disaster. The company's president, Mr Toshikazu Nishimoto, said that higher electricity tariffs will push up costs for an ...
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Recently, Shenzhen Spark Optoelectronics S&T CO., LTD, has won the biding of Ganchong Highway Lighting Project (from Ganzhou to Chongyi), which is a very important part of Xiacheng National Highway (from Xiamen to Chengdu). Around ten ...
Fenghuang is located at the southwest ridge of central China's Hunan Province. Fenghuang is Chinese for 'phoenix', the mythical bird which is a good omen and symbolizes longevity. Fenghuang gets its name from a legend that two of these ...
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According to U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) October Crop Production report, the 2012 U.S. cotton crop is estimated at 17.3 million bales, up marginally from last month's forecast but 1.7 million bales (11 percent) above the 2011 ...
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The Three Gorges of the Yellow River lie in Yongjing County in the southwest of central Gansu Province. They border on Qinghai Province to the west, and on the city of Lanzhou to the northeast. The Three Gorges of the Yellow River has ...
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In China, there are 1.594,827 people of the Bai nationality Most of them reside around the Ehai Lake in the Dili Bai Autonomous Prefecture in the west of Yunnan Province. The rest live elsewhere in Sichuan, Guizhou and Hunan provinces. ...
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Dongba Art is the primitive religious art special of the Naxi ethnics who live in the frontier area of southwest China and believe in Dongba religion. Dongba religion got its name from the fact that the priest of the religion is called ...