The Guangzhou International Auto Show is in full swing. and one of the highlights is the number of electric and hybrid cars on show. Our reporter Ning Hong is there for us, and has been speaking to car makers and customers, to find out how ...
Tags: Hybrid Cars, Electric Cars
China will encourage more e-commerce to try to bring online retail sales up to 10 percent of the total retail sales of consumer goods, according to the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) on Thursday. China will expand e-commerce, with a focus on ...
Tags: E-commerce, B2B, Online Store
The recycling specialist will increase capacity at its Dagenham plant from 35,000 to 55,000 tonnes per annum to meet demands of the dairy industry as it works towards higher recycled content targets, while also diverting a further 30,000 ...
When the world was digesting news of Detroit’s bankruptcy in July, the biggest ever by a municipality in the US, attention in China turned to the highly indebted government of Jiangsu province. Provincial, city and county authorities ...
Tags: Bond Markets, Local Officials
Everest Foods vegetable and meat dumplings (Momo) products have been produced in unapproved premises. There is known distribution to some retail establishments in Hampshire, Kent and London. However, it has not been possible to obtain ...
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China's central energy authority has proposed to build more photovoltaic power stations in 2014 than originally planned as solar panel producers struggle before dwindling export orders. The capacity of new PV power stations to be built in ...
China's central energy authority has proposed to build more photovoltaic (PV) power stations in 2014 than originally planned as solar panel producers struggle before dwindling export orders. The capacity of new PV power stations to be ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, PV power
At a time when Indian, Russian and Brazilian car markets are stumbling, China remains the major growth engine for the global automotive industry, analysts say. "For many years it's been the Bric nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China) ...
Tags: Automotive Industry, Cars
MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have criticised the rural broadband rollout intended to provide fast internet access to 90 per cent of UK homes by 2015 for favouring BT and adding as much as £20 to council tax bills. In a ...
Tags: Computer Products
In his September Briefing to Members of Parliament, Workman said that packaging materials are much lighter and more resource efficient than they were 20 years ago and are designed with space saving efficiency in mind. Elsewhere, he said ...
Chinese drivers will have to pay more in fuel prices amid the country's drive to reduce air pollution through upgraded fuel quality. In the next two years, the prices of motor gasoline and diesel which meet the national 'fourth-phase' ...
Tags: Pricing Policy, Greener Fuel
The domestic renewable energy industry has condemned the Government's suggestion to do away with the 2008 Planning and Energy Act. The Act, promoted by Michael Fallon, who is now Energy Minister, provides local authorities with the ...
Tags: renewable energy, Energy
A fleet of London black cabs has arrived in Australia as the company behind the retro-styled runabouts seeks to take a slice of the local taxi market. The white-painted TX4 vehicles arrived at Fremantle port over the weekend on a boat ...
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Contrary to the actions of many local authorities across the country, Nottinghamshire County Council is set to reverse its policy of switching off street lights during the night. Since 2010 more than 6,000 street lights have been dark ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, LED Lighting
China on Monday unveiled a list of 58 companies that should cut their excess production capacity by the end of the year as a part of the country's economic restructuring drive. The enterprises are from 13 industries with overcapacity, ...
Tags: Production Cuts, overcapacity