The Communist Party of China (CPC) on Monday unveiled its major economic tasks for 2016, the first year of the country's 13th Five-year Plan. To reduce housing inventories, more migrant rural workers should be issued with urban-residency ...
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China will extend its electronic invoice system to nationwide coverage in 2016 to better regulate taxation of online businesses. It's expected to help curb tax evasion by users of C2C platforms, where individuals can easily open virtual ...
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LED package manufacturer Everlight and Japan’s largest LED manufacturer Nichia initiated patent wars in Japan, Taiwan, Germany, U.S. and other countries for the past decade, reported Chinese-language magazine Money Weekly. Nichia is ...
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Recent patent disputes between Japanese LED manufacturer Nichia and Taiwanese counterpart Everlight has raged on, with new disputes every now and then. Will the two sides ever reach a settlement? And how will these patent issues affect the ...
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Universal Display Corporation, enabling energy-efficient displays and lighting with its UniversalPHOLED® technology and materials,today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2015. “The consumer ...
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MGP Ingredients, a leading supplier of premium distilled spirits and specialty wheat proteins and starches, reported results for the third quarter period ended 30 September 2015. Third quarter 2015 highlights (vs. third quarter 2014) ...
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Despite recent rebounding shipments of consumer notebooks due to replenishing inventories, global demand is still weak and therefore shipments are likely to significantly drop after the 2015 year-end holidays, especially since the first ...
US-based food company B&G Foods has completed the acquisition of frozen and canned vegetable Green Giant and Le Sueur brands from General Mills for $765m in cash. The deal also covers inventory adjustment at closing worth $58m. B&G ...
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Chinese outbound spending has grown rapidly in recent years, and an increasing number of countries have introduced easier visa policies to attract more Chinese visitors, especially in recent months. In 2014, many countries adjusted their ...
A "tax free" sign written in English, Chinese and Korean is displayed at a shop popular with tourists from Chinese-speaking countries in the upscale Ginza shopping district in Tokyo, February 19, 2015. [Photo: CFP] Chinese shoppers are ...
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Beware exhibitors: After 12 years in the trade show industry, I’ve finally been introduced to the consequences of a mixed shipment. We were hit with “special handling” (aka drayage) charges because of this mixed shipment. ...
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More than 1.57 million fans on the Chinese mainland watched the live streaming of a recent concert as eight young women from Girls' Generation, in thigh-high leather boots, black denim shorts and plaid shirts, sang and danced to the music ...
Xue Kaizhong was not surprised when the gold and silver coins he bought on Aug 27 for 6,600 yuan ($1,033) were worth 9,000 yuan in mid-September. The 64-year-old, who lives in Zhongshan, Guangdong province, stood in line for two hours to ...
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Henry Chang-Yu Lee, the forensic scientist, had his own number tag (2056) at the Connecticut Department of Public Safety. But whenever his colleagues phoned for him, they asked for "007". In his career of more than 50 years, the ...
Father Francis Li Jianlin has been looking for investment opportunities and health insurance in his spare time, spurred on by a feeling of responsibility for the priests and nuns in his Catholic diocese in Xinxiang, Henan province. ...