The flip side to China's large population is its vast labor supply. China's emergence as the manufacturing hub of the world over the past three decades has created significant downward pressure on pricing of many of the world's goods. ...
Tags: Focus Vision, China, China Price
The fanfare entrance into the market of smartphones is hardly breaking news, but eyebrow-raising figures show how Germany is next up for the app-fed mobile data revolution. After a 7.8 percent fall in mobile phone sales overall in 2011, ...
A senior Turkish government official has told the Hürriyet Daily News that the Turkish government will continue to encourage Turkish energy companies to sign more agreements with the Kurdistan Regional Government, despite what it ...
Tags: oil, gas, Investment
One in five Chinese LED lighting companies may fail this year as falling prices and oversupply batter an industry that Beijing bankrolled to try to build an energy-efficient future. About 4,000 companies in China are producing LEDs, or ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED lighting sector, LED
India’s Supreme Court has declined to alter its decision of changing Sistema‘s mobile licences for its mobile services joint venture, it was reported last week. The joint venture of the Russian conglomerate was one of several ...
Tags: India, Supreme Court, Sistema, mobile licences
Computer security guru Professor Ross Anderson has criticised the European Union's proposed computer security directive which, he says, represents "yet another unfortunate step towards the militarisation of cyberspace". EU security ...
The trade gateway and ‘barometer’ to the Chinese market opens again in April. The China Import and Export Fair, commonly known as the Canton Fair, will be held from April 15 to May 5 at the China Import and Export Fair Complex ...
Tags: Chinese market, trade gateway, barometer
A String of cyber attacks on major US media outlets has intensified worries over Chinese hackers, who analysts say are probably linked to the secretive Beijing government. The attacks, part of a series of incidents traced to Chinese ...
Tags: Hacking Incidents, Fears, China
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security have asked for more time to consider Softbank's proposed takeover of Sprint Nextel, a move that may signal a rough road ahead for the US$20 billion deal. In a letter ...
Tags: Softbank, Sprint Nextel, Federal Communications Commission
Buoyed by the government s efforts to focus on infrastructure investment and the intensifying demand for building materials, particularly concrete and cement, the construction sector in Oman is experiencing an industrial boom. At Omanexpo ...
India Lab Expo 2013 will take place on November 21st to 23rd Hitex Exhibition Center, Hyderabad, India. India Lab Expo has become the single meeting point by excellence for the laboratory fraternity in India. Show organisers will not only ...
The glass and materials industry of China is presently faced with various difficulties while developing, such as uncoordinated and unsustainable development, weak ability for scientific and technological innovation, unbalanced industrial ...
China's smartphone market is growing so fast that it is expected to be nearly twice as large as the U.S. market this year, according to research firm Canalys. Smartphone shipments to the Chinese market will reach 239.8 million units in ...
Tags: China, smartphone market, U.S.market
Winter-time collections will play a prominent role at the sixty-ninth edition of SIMM, the Madrid International Fashion Fair, to be staged from 8th to 10th February in Halls 12 and 14 in the DC Area at Feria de Madrid. This fair, which is ...
Tags: SIMM, International Fashion Fair, February
Several domestic and foreign apparel retail firms are further strengthening their expansion in Chinese lower-tier cities,in the midst of intensified competition in the first-tier cities,according to a latest report. The lower-tier ...
Tags: apparel retailer, Chinese lower-tier cities, apparel market, CNGA