China's crude oil imports in December rose 8% year on year to 23.67 million mt, or an average of 5.6 million b/d, according to preliminary trade data released Thursday by the General Administration of Customs. The volume is 1.9% lower ...
IDG News Service - The U.S. Department of State has described the timing of a proposed visit by Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt and others to North Korea as not "particularly helpful" in view of the Asian country's recent launch of ...
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The US has criticised a planned visit to North Korea by Google chairman Eric Schmidt, calling it ill-timed in the wake of Pyongyang's rocket launch last month. Mr Schmidt - whose company has the unofficial motto of "Don't Be Evil" - plans ...
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Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt will join a humanitarian trip to North Korea that may take place as early as this month. Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt's trip to North Korean is called personal although he will travel ...
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China is delivering on its promise to consolidate its mining industry with the formation of a new rare earth mega miner. According to a report by Global Times, the “mega-corporation”, named China North Rare Earths (Group) ...
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Chris Berry, founder of Mountain Partners asset management company, provided an interesting summary of the graphite space while speaking at the recent Graphite Express Conference in Vancouver. The conference featured a keynote address ...
From Google Maps, the U.S. National Security Agency's parking lot has a larger footprint than the building itself. And for the high secrecy surrounding what goes on inside, there is plenty of information flowing just outside. In a ...
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When North Korea s Kim Jong-un commemorates a year of his rule next week, he will be able to declare he has fulfilled the country s long-held dream of becoming a "space power". Sharing the limelight with the 29-year old will be three ...
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The Japanese government confiscated what appeared to be North Korean aluminum alloy bars from a Singaporean cargo ship at the end of August, the Asahi Shimbun reported Saturday. They were apparently bound for Burma and could have been used ...
The US government has again cut its forecast for corn yields as the impact of the worst drought in the country for 50 years becomes clearer. Washington said the US corn yield is set to be the lowest since 1995-96, sending futures to a ...
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Speech by the Governor Liaoning is an important interface-link between the Chinese Northeastern Economic Zone and Bohai Economic Rim. It is located at the south of the Northeastern region of China; it faces the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea in ...
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Since the state approved the establishment of Dalian Economic Development Zone in 1984, Liaoning has had 5 state-level economic development zones, 25 provincial-level development zones, and some municipal-level development zones and a ...
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Speech by the Governor Jilin Province is located at the central part of Northeast China, and in the center of Northeast Asia that consists of Japan, Russia, DPRK, ROK, Mongolia and Northeast China. Jilin has the solid industrial ...
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Good night, good night All that remains is for Paul McCartney to sing us off to our slumbers. It's been a terrific night, a glorious ceremony, a rousing history lesson and far and away the best film that Danny Boyle never made. Thanks ...
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The readymade garments(RMG)industry,the main export revenue earner for Bangladesh has been excluded by the US Department of Labor from the list of the sectors suspected of producing goods with child labor. The 11th edition of the ...
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