WASHINGTON (FERN's Ag Insider) - This week, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a $24 million grant to Cornell University, funding a global wheat research group, known as Delivering Genetic Gain in Wheat. The aim is to develop new ...
Tags: Stem-Rust Disease, Wheat
Marcel Wanders to present Delft Blue vases at Design Shanghai 2016 Eight exquisite brand new Delft Blue vases will be on view, as part of a special exhibition curated by Perfect Crossovers at Design Shanghai, from March 9 to 12. To be ...
International Paper, a US based pulp and paper company, has signed an agreement to divest its corrugated packaging business to Xiamen Bridge Hexing Equity Investment Partnership Enterprise, for approximately $150m. Under the terms of the ...
The LH4110W high-pressure pump has a height of over 1.8 m and a net weight of around 1.3 tonnes. The LH pumps water with particles up to 8 mm in diameter vertically upwards, reaching up to 216 m. "This is the strongest performing pump of ...
Tags: Tsurumi, Dewatering Model, Bauma 2016
Toyota announced that it has hired Jaybridge Robotics engineering team in order to strengthen its autonomous vehicle development effort. The 16 member Jaybridge engineering team will join Toyota Research Institute's (TRI) facility in ...
Leading automotive and transportation companies like General Motors, Jaguar Land Rover, Renault Nissan, Scania and Volvo Cars are supporting GSMA Embedded SIM Specification to help accelerate the growth of the connected car market. ...
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, has expanded its video library on GaN ...
Tags: EPC, E-mode GaN FETs, GaN-on-Si
Chinese New Year celebrations in South Korea kicked off on Jun 17 in Seoul with a variety show. The event, themed Culture of China, Festival of Spring, featured Chinese ethnic charms such as dance, Peking opera, acrobatics, cross talk, ...
Tags: New Year Celebrations
Changsha, capital city of central China's Hunan Province, will offer 72-hour visa-free entry for international transit passengers starting Jan. 1, 2016. The policy covers travelers from 51 countries, including 37 in Europe, six in the ...
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In China's financial hub Shanghai, kitchen stoves now use a new energy source: shale gas, a clean energy that travels more than 1,600 kilometers to the city's homes via a series of pipelines. China has recently made breakthroughs in shale ...
Tags: Shale Gas Industry
Myanmar authorities announced Wednesday that a consortium of six foreign group companies, led by China's CITIC, has won the bid for implementing two projects of the country's newly planned special economic zone (SEZ) in Kyaukphyu, western ...
Tags: Six-Company, Implementing SEZ
It's been about half a year since the idea of Internet Plus Strategy was raised by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. The strategy is an action plan to integrate the mobile Internet, cloud computing, big data and the Internet of Things with modern ...
The International Space Station on Monday reached another milestone: the orbiting laboratory has been home to astronauts and cosmonauts for 15 consecutive years. Although placed in orbit in 1998, the station did not welcome its first ...
Insiders are predicting an increasing in the number of Chinese tourists visiting the United States next year, partly due to the easing of restrictions on Chinese citizens acquiring tourist visas. 2016 is also the China-US tourism year, as ...
Tags: Chinese Tourists, Travel
Over 50 people were killed in a traffic accident along a highway in Afghanistan's northern province of Samangan on Thursday, police said. "A long-distance bus collided with an oil truck on a bridge at around evening. The bus plunged into ...
Tags: Traffic Accident