On a typical evening in the suburbs of Ho Chi Minh City, the neon-lit Aeon Mall Tan Phu Celadon bustles with shoppers arriving on motorcycles and in taxis. Crowds fill every corner of the new mall, with a takeout sushi store in particular ...
Tags: Consumer Market, Electronics
The world refined copper market balance for November 2013 showed an apparent production deficit of 129,000 mt, mainly due to record-high Chinese apparent demand, according to preliminary data issued last Friday by the International Copper ...
Tags: Refined Copper, Mineral
Taiwan technology giant Foxconn group has signed a letter of intent to invest up to $1 billion in Indonesia as it seeks to diversify production away from China, officials said Sunday. Foxconn, also known by its Taipei-headquartered mother ...
The acquisition of UK-based Briton EMS by US electronics manufacturing provider, OSI, has opened a new door for developing electronic products in the UK, with strong IP-protection and close links to low-cost Far East manufacturing. ...
Tags: IP Security, OSI, NPI, Far East production
First production from the Papua New Guinea LNG project is now expected in the third quarter of this year, Australian joint venture partner Santos said Friday as it reported its financial results for 2013. Santos holds 13.5% of the ...
Tags: LNG project, Mineral
State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corp has submitted a formal request to the National Board of Revenue seeking a waiver from local taxes, value added taxes and other duties imposed on refined oil product imports, in order to borrow less from ...
Tags: Petroleum, Tax Waivers, Oil Product
Following opposition by public health professionals, the Bali administration has finally declared its official stance on the plan to hold Inter-tabac Asia 2014, an international trade fair for tobacco products and smoking accessories, in ...
Tags: E-Cigarette, E Cigarette, Cigarette
Indonesian thermal coal exporters are now required to produce a certificate clearing the miner to produce coal before they ship material overseas, a government official said. The latest move is the second regulatory obstacle encountered ...
Tags: Coal Exporters, Regulatory Hurdle
The Latin American country of Brazil exported cotton worth US$ 41.2 million during the month of January 2014, as per the latest data released by the National Association of Cotton Exporters (ANEA). According to the Brazilian Exports of ...
Tags: Cotton Exports, Textile
The exports of fabric and garments from Vietnam rose by a sharp 21.7 percent year-on-year to US$ 1.904 billion in January 2014, according to the data released by the General Department of Customs, Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance. ...
Tags: Fabric, Garment Exports
Indonesia launched a safeguard investigation regarding imports of I-beam with height or width of 100 mm up to 600 mm and H-sections with height of 100 mm up to 350 mm, of alloyed steel, according to a statement issued by the World Trade ...
Australian Direct Nickel and Indonesia's Antam are looking to complete the feasibility study for their joint venture plant in Halmahera Island by first quarter 2015, a Direct Nickel spokesman said Monday. Last month, the two companies ...
Tags: Nickel, stainless steel
The national bureau of statistics data show that China's GDP in 2013 is 56.8845 trillion yuan, calculated at comparable prices up by 7.7% over the previous year, increase of nearly 5 trillion yuan year-on-year, the increment is equivalent ...
It is indeed becoming curiouser and curiouser (to quote Alice in Wonderland) that this discussion should focus so one-sidedly on our lowly alfalfa crop. Even the National Geographic article implies that the quantity of 'water' exported with ...
Tags: Fresh lettuce, spinach, onions, broccoli and cauliflower
Asia's rising stars challenging soft drinks leaders The three largest global soft drinks brands continue to be Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola and Sprite, but Chinese brand Kangshifu (Tingyi Holding Corp) is not far behind, according to the latest ...
Tags: soft drinks, Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Sprite