Over 15 years after the establishment of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (the "FOCAC"), China-Africa economic and trade cooperation has become a highlight in international cooperation with Africa and a model of South-South ...
Tags: FOCAC, financing cooperation
Tax revenue from coal production in the Australian state of Queensland is forecast to rise to A$1.93 billion ($1.4 billion) in fiscal year 2016-2017 (July-June), based on assumptions that hard coking coal prices will average $100/mt in the ...
The 1st Meeting of China-South Korea Industrial Park Cooperative Mechanism was held in Seoul South Korea on November 30. The Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce Gao Yan jointly presided over the conference with the Vice Minister of Trade, ...
On December 3 2015, the High-level Dialogue between Chinese-African Leaders and Business Communities and the 5th Conference of the Chinese and African Entrepreneurs, jointly held by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, China Council for the ...
Century Aluminum is proposing to continue operating its 224,000 mt/year Mt Holly smelter in South Carolina at 50% capacity even as the company on Monday began shutting down the first potline in a dispute with its longtime electricity ...
Tags: Century Aluminum, electricity
Oman is close to awarding construction contracts and reaching financial close for its planned Liwa Plastics petrochemicals complex and Salalah LPG plant, sources close to the projects said Monday. Approximately $5.2 billion of funding is ...
Coal exports from Australia's Gladstone port exceeded 7 million mt in November, as buyers from China, Japan and South Korea increased their offtake, a report from Gladstone port authority Friday said. Throughput at the port -- which ships ...
Tags: Coal exports, thermal coal, coking coal
Bulgaria and the European Commission have agreed to establish a joint working group to support the development of a gas hub in Bulgaria designed to serve the whole Balkan region. Gas infrastructure in southeast Europe is poorly ...
East Timor's Kitan condensate will no longer be available in the spot market as the ultra-light oil field reached the end of its normal life, market sources said Monday. "After January, there will be no more [Kitan cargoes]," a trade ...
Tags: ultra-light oil field, condensate, crude
Switzerland-based commodity trading house Trafigura said Monday that falling oil prices, significant volatility, structural oversupply and the emergence of contango price structures have created significant opportunities in the crude and ...
Tags: Trafigura, oil prices, crude oil
Spurred by major and emerging markets, global photovoltaic (PV) demand has grown substantially this year. According to the latest Gold Member Report by EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, installed capacity worldwide for 2015 is ...
Tags: PV power, PV industry
Electric vehicle startup Faraday Future has selected North Las Vegas in Nevada to set up its proposed factory, with first car set to roll off the plant in 2017. The company previously announced that it was considering sites in California, ...
Tags: CES electronics show, electric highway, EV
Bravo Sports Corp., global leader in the recreational and sporting goods markets, announces the acquisition of Pro-Tec, the original action sports protective gear brand founded in 1973. Bravo Sports Corp. has acquired protective gear ...
Tags: Bravo Sports, Pro-Tec
Mark Chao stars in the upcoming movie Till the End of the World, shot in Antarctica. [Photo provided to China Daily] An upcoming romantic film, the first homegrown fictional feature shot in Antarctica, recently concluded its shoot in the ...
Imax CEO Richard Gelfond. [Photo provided to China Daily] China will overtake the United States to become the world's largest box office by 2018, says Imax CEO Richard Gelfond in an exclusive interview to China Daily. The country is ...
Tags: China, Box Office, movie industry