The exports of fabric and garments from the Southeast Asian nation of Vietnam jumped 21.3 percent year-on-year to US$ 5.991 billion in the first four months of 2014, according to the preliminary data released by the Customs IT & Statistics ...
Tags: Fabric Exports, Garment Exports
Renewable energy is a solution to carbon emission and climate change. As the world’s biggest carbon emitter, China has been encouraging solar power development and installation to lower its emission volume. To cut its reliance on ...
Tags: Renewable Energy, Solar Power
Beijing bureaucrats are all exhausted just by chasing a sputtering economy and trying to keep it moving. Some fine-tuning here, a bit of state spending there – all with the aim of meeting a GDP growth target. But if they want to stop ...
Tags: Economy Reform, China Economy
In April this year, the value of Taiwan's iron and steel exports increased by 8.4 percent year on year and decreased by 3.6 percent compared to March to $1.57 billion, according to the preliminary statistics issued by Taiwan's Ministry of ...
Tags: Iron, Steel Export
Implementation of international labour standards in Pakistan, especially in the textile industry, was discussed in detail when US Deputy Counselor for Economic Affairs Susan McFee called on Pakistan's Minister for Textile Industry Abbas ...
Tags: Textile
European fuel-grade ethanol prices have become less vulnerable to near-term declines as future prices are now high enough to encourage sellers to hold on to stock rather than selling it promptly, according to trading sources. Wholesale ...
Shale gas regulations should be streamlined and the government should lend its weight to industry attempts at producing gas through hydraulic fracturing, the Economic Affairs Committee of the UK's upper house of parliament said. Launching ...
Tags: Shale gas, Energy security
The Export Finance and Insurance Commission (EFIC) has examined free trade deals clinched with Japan and Korea this month and the trade agreement currently being pursued with China. “These agreements offer unprecedented access to ...
Tags: Electrolytic Capacitors, Asian FTA
A major survey of more than 1,600 firms has found that the high value of the Australian dollar, difficulties in obtaining finance and a lack of information about overseas markets remain major barriers to expanded international operations. ...
Tags: Australian dollar
Groupe Michelin has begun steps to close its truck tire plant in Budapest, Hungary. According to Michelin, the closing is necessary "in response to the adverse trends and aggressive competition in the European truck tire market, which ...
Tags: Michelin, Truck Tire
Turkey-based steel producer Karabük Demir Celik (Kardemir) has announced that it has signed a credit facility with Germany's KfW IPEX Bank to finance the foreign expenses regarding its special bar quality (SBQ) rolling mill investment. ...
Tags: steel producer, rolling mill
Despite shutdown of nuclear power plants, Japan is not expected to raise its thermal coal imports significantly over the next five-seven years, as existing coal-fired power plants are running at high rates and new facilities are still on ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, nuclear power plants
Audi Group has reported an increase of 11.7% in sales to 412,846 and 10.4% growth in revenue to €12,951m for the first three months of 2014. The Audi Group is again on track for success in the new fiscal year: With over 412,000 ...
Tags: Audi, Sales Growth
Singapore sovereign wealth fund, Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC), has invested PHP3.4bn ($76.2m) in Century Canning Corp (CCC), parent company of soon-to-be-listed Century Pacific Food (CNPF). GIC and CCC have signed an ...
Tags: Singapore Wealth Fund, GIC
India-based ShriVallabh Pittie (SVP) Group is setting up a US$ 550 million spinning mill in Kombolcha town, located in the Debub Wollo Zone of Ethiopia’s Amhara Region, Ethiopian News Agency reported. The textile mill, to come up ...
Tags: Spinning Mill, textile mill