US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced that the US Government would ease its imports ban on Myanmar(also called Burma),during her meeting with Myanmarese President Thein Sein,on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session ...
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U.S.solar start-up SoloPower opened the doors of its first factory on Thursday,a key milestone toward allowing the company to collect on a$197 million government loan guarantee. The 225,000-square-foot facility in Portland,Oregon will one ...
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You remember the iPod.The iPod created jobs,but a majority of those jobs were overseas.Electronics manufacturing jobs are mostly overseas,which helps to keep one million workers at China's Foxconn plants busy. In contrast,the majority of ...
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The Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry(TAMI)estimated Taiwan's machine tool industry to generate US$5.5 billion of revenue and US$4.5 billion of export this year,increasing 10%and 11%from last year,respectively. The TAMI made the ...
U.S. manufacturers of socks and hosiery represented by The Hosiery Association (THA) this week made public their demand that the Obama administration revise its position in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks by tabling a rule of ...
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A White House executive order on cyber security is "close to completion," according to Janet Napolitano, US Secretary of Homeland Security. The news comes just weeks after former White House cyber security chief Howard Schmidt said US ...
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With opposition growing to reported plans by President Obama to issue an Executive Order to bolster cybersecurity within the nation's critical infrastructure,the main question now is whether the White House will plow ahead with the idea or ...
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The prices of Light-Emitting Diode (LED)-based lightbulbs have been dropping over the last few years, and the amount and quality of the light they put out have been rising. New dimmable LED bulbs that put out as much light as a standard ...
On the 11th anniversary of the Sept.11,2001 terrorist attacks,work continues on One World Trade Center,which will rise 1,776 feet to the top of its spire,to become the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. Steel has risen to the ...
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Taipei,Sept.12,2012(CENS)--The top brasses of Taiwan's leading machine-tool makers are promoting their respective products in person at International Manufacturing Technology Show 2012(IMTS 2012)in Chicago running Sept.10-15,which is ...
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In his acceptance speech Thursday night, President Barack Obama drew upon Minnesota's Marvin Windows and Doors for inspiration. "The family business in Warroad, Minnesota that didn't lay off a single one of their four thousand employees ...
As the U.S.and eight other nations negotiate a wide-ranging trade agreement,several digital rights groups said they're concerned that the Trans-Pacific Partnership(TPP)will bring back controversial copyright-enforcement provisions pushed by ...
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Twenty-two U.S.privacy and consumer groups have voiced support for a tough online privacy proposal being considered by the European Union,even though some U.S.businesses and government officials have described the proposal as too ...
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Construction cranes are shown perched on top of One World Trade Center on June 25.The steel skeleton of the skyscraper has been completed and the next step is adding the glass'skin.''/Associated Press file photo NEW YORK—The steel ...
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Deron Patterson,a senior account manager for PPG Industries'flat glass division,based in Sugarland,Texas,first remembers being interested in politics at the age of 10,when he learned to do his own Richard Nixon impression.Now,37 years ...
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