Chinese President Xi Jinping paid a four-day state visit to Britain from Oct 20 to 23, during which the two countries signed cooperation agreements worth a combined 40 billion pounds, including Chinese investment in a British nuclear power ...
Tags: China-Britain Rapport, closer ties
Pakistan is set to regain ground in the Asian beverage-grade ethanol market amid recent surge in Brazilian ethanol -- the predominant source of grade B product currently, market sources said Tuesday. With several Pakistani sellers set to ...
Tags: freight rates, Grade B Ethanol, price
South Africa exported 5.93 million mt of thermal coal in September, slipping 15.1% year on year due to lower shipments to India, Europe, Turkey, Pakistan and the US, according to customs data released late Friday. The volume was, however, ...
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The Indonesian government has invited bids for three shale gas blocks -- Blora, onshore Central and East Java; Batu Ampar in East Kalimantan; and Central Bangkanai, onshore Central and East Kalimantan -- according to a statement on the ...
Tags: shale gas Blocks, Blora, natural gas
China's state-owned oil giants Sinopec and PetroChina reported a modest 1.73 million mt or 0.7% increase in their domestic oil products sales in the first nine months of 2015, but exports rose by 2.59 million mt or 12% in the same period, ...
Dated Brent has fallen to a nine-week low, with uncommitted November Brent and Forties cargoes weighing on values amid weak local refinery uptake of the grade, sources said. Dated Brent fell to Forward Dated Brent minus 51 cents/b Monday, ...
Tags: Dated Brent, refiners, crudes
For third-quarter 2015, epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported revenue of $140.7m, up 51% on $93.3m a year ago although up only 7% on $131.4m last quarter (which was the ...
Tags: LED market, LCD TVs
Tom Cruise's stunts and news of some Chinese investment are drawing people to Mission: Impossible-Rouge Nation. Xu Fan interviews director Christopher McQuarrie. Ethan Hunt looks unbeatable in Mission: Impossible-Rogue Nation. Tom ...
Tags: Chinese investment, films, Hollywood
The announcement of this year's Nobel Prize in medicine has triggered a new debate on traditional Chinese medicine, and reminds us that modern medical science depends on inspiration from every possible source. A Chinese scientist winning ...
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A screen capture from film The Little Prince. One of the most translated novellas globally, The Little Prince has reportedly found its way into 253 languages and dialects, selling as many as 200 million copies, but has rarely been made ...
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Emerging Chinese director Song Pengfei could hardly believe that his first try at film directing would turn out to be an immediate success. At Friday night, amid applause and enthusiasm, Song, director of a movie entitled Underground ...
Tags: Chinese films, Chicago Film Fest
Wacker Chemie AG has officially started up a new reactor for vinyl acetate-ethylene co-polymer (VAE) dispersions at its Calvert City site in Kentucky, USA. By expanding its capacities, WACKER is meeting global demand for its dispersions and ...
Tags: Wacker, dispersible polymer powders, VAE
China's economy posted a 6.9-percent growth year on year in the third quarter of 2015, lower than 7 percent in the first half of the year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Monday. In the first three quarters of the ...
Tags: China's GDP, interest rate
A heated debate on how the United States should react to China's rise is going on in the United States. The main dispute is whether the long-established approach to China should be abandoned. In the past 30 years, the United States has ...
Two of the best known Taiwanese personal computer (PC) vendors, Acer Inc. and Asustek Computer Inc. (Asus), are aggressively targeting the mobile-device market, especially the smartphone segment, by launching several new cellphone models in ...
Tags: PC Vendors, Smartphone