"This year's Beijing Fringe Festival is more diverse and more international," said Meng Jinghui, mastermind behind the event, now in its eighth year. The festival, which runs until Sept 26 in six theatres and art spaces in Beijing, will ...
Skyscraper cities were the focus of a major international forum held in New York when AkzoNobel showcased its latest performance coatings technologies for the construction industry. During the annual Council on Tall Buildings and Urban ...
Tags: Akzonobel, Powder coatings, performance coatings technologies
Time Inc.’s This Old House named Rust-Oleum’s Chalked Ultra Matte Paint to its fifth annual “This Old House Top 100,” a list of the 100 best new home products of the year. The list was announced today. Each year, ...
South African paper and packaging firm Mondi has acquired 95% stake in a flexible packaging company KSP in South Korea. KSP operates a production plant in Seoul, in addition to having an interest in another plant in Thailand. Nearly ...
West coast Indian miner Fomento Resources has offered a cargo of 57%-Fe iron ore fines material through a spot tender Thursday, making this the first iron ore shipment the miner will send out of Goa after the state's mining bans were ...
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Soaring demand from China, Japan and the U.S. ensures that the first-tier photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturers are booked in orders up to the first quarter of 2016. Currently, prices are rising for all multi-Si products from wafers to ...
Tags: Mono-Si Market, PV Sector, wafer
The 849 MW FitzPatrick nuclear power plant in Scriba, New York, will be shut permanently by late 2016 or early 2017, due to "the continued deteriorating economics of the facility," Entergy said Monday in a statement. The unit is licensed to ...
Mercedes-Benz along with its joint venture partner Beijing Benz Automotive has started the production of GLC SUV at their production facility in Beijing, China. The new GLC SUV is the second localized SUV model at the assembly lines, ...
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The annual Christmas eve traffic snarl is underway in Beijing. Thousands of young people are flocking to the city centre for Christmas dinners and shopping. The area around Sanlitun and Beijing Worker's Stadium, known in the Chinese ...
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Thirty-four entries were added to the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List at the ninth session of the Intergovernmental Committee held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The five-day session assembled delegations and scholars from 161 ...
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China's Belt and Road initiatives are not its "solo," but a "symphony" of all relevant parties, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Sunday. The vision of the initiatives is common development, and the goal is win-win progress through ...
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China's Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang were presented at the very distant location of Berlin, Germany. The 49th Berlin International Tourism Fair included the grottoes, presented by the National Tourism Administration as an important piece of ...
Tags: Longmen Grottoes, Berlin, Luoyang's tourism
New Zealand is expecting strong demand for its 2015-16 Working Holiday plan for Chinese citizens, which opens for application on May 19, according to the country's immigration office. The Immigration New Zealand website crashed last year ...
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New Zealand-based dairy company Fonterra has established a new Application Center in Guangzhou to develop innovative dairy products and services to the company’s foodservice customers in the region. The Guangzhou facility is ...
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The joint bid by Beijing and Zhangjiakou to stage the 2022 Olympic Winter Games is based on ideas of sustainability and frugality and places athletes center stage, according to the capital's mayor. "Holding the games in a frugal way is ...