It's around 8 pm. The streets are quiet. For most of Heze, a city in East China's Shandong province, which has a population of around 8 million and is known as the main center for the cultivation of the national flower peony, it is the end ...
Tags: Traditional Art, Chinese folk operas, cultural activity center
On a sleepless night in early spring of 2013, standing on the balcony of his New York apartment, choreographer Cheng Tsung-lung saw the sky begin to fill with a magical blue hue. For some 20 minutes, the sun was still below the horizon but ...
Tags: Dancers, Blue Hour, folk dancing
Honda Motor is reportedly planning to bring its self-driving car on the road by 2020, joining the automated car race. Major automakers such as Toyota and Nissan have already announced their entry to into the self-driving car market by ...
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Infrastructure Trust (CIT) today released a Request for Information (RFI) for the Chicago Smart Lighting Project, which seeks to update the City of Chicago’s electric lighting infrastructure. The ...
Tags: Chicago, smart LED streetlights, city lights
Today, The Climate Group, which is hosting its annual Climate Week NYC, called on every single city and utility around the world to schedule the switch of their street lighting to LED by 2025 and launched its new major global campaign LED = ...
Tags: government policy, LED streetlight upgrade, The Climate Group
Indian government policies are spurring a nationwide LED streetlight upgrade, but parts of Mangalore, Karnataka remain in the dark leading to higher crime rates, as disputes between government organizations over what lighting to install in ...
Tags: streetlights, Indian LED market, crime rates
Despite technological leaps in modern electronics, the quality of lighting they provide still leaves much room for improvement. A collaborative team — led by Jian Li, an associate professor of materials science and engineering in ...
Low market demands in the past few months has driven Taiwanese LED manufacturer Harvatek to explore innovative LED technologies including forming a partnership that includes teaming up with Taiwan Textile Research Institute (TTRI) to ...
Tags: Harvatek, LEDtextile, LEDattire, LEDthread, TTRI
Google has hired former Hyundai boss John Krafcik to spearhead its self-driving car project. He has been working as the president of online car shopping service TrueCar since April 2014 and earlier held management position in Ford. ...
Tags: Google, self-driving car, Apple
Innovia Films' NatureFlex flexible packaging film has been chosen by South African company KiddieKix to pack its cereals and dried fruit snacks. NatureFlex speciality packaging films are made from renewable resources such as wood-pulp ...
Tags: Innovia Films, flexible packaging, BOPP
The European Union is set to provide an emergency aid of €500m to compensate for falling milk and meat prices, as thousands of protesting farmers blocked the streets near the EU neighbourhood in Brussels. The Commission is set to ...
Tags: skimmed-milk powder, pork products
BMW i Ventures, the venture capital entity of BMW will be investing in on-demand parking and car services company ZIRX. ZIRX's service involves an app, which can be used by drivers to indicate their current location and an agent will ...
Tags: Car Parking, BMW i Ventures
Global credit-rating agency Fitch has projected Bangladesh's economic outlook as stable for the current year also, but with a footnote that political and banking-sector risks remained on the flip side, a leading Bangladeshi newspaper has ...
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Retail footfall in July was 1.1% lower than a year ago, up from the 1.5% fall in June and slightly above the three-month average of -1.2%, according to the BRC/Springboard Footfall Monitor for July 2015. High streets and shopping centres ...
Plasma process equipment maker Plasma-Therm LLC of St Petersburg, FL, USA says that an MDS-100 MicroDie Singulator plasma dicing system has been ordered by a global LED maker for high-volume LED production. The manufacturer produces LEDs ...
Tags: LED light, LED lamp, LED panel, Plasma-Therm