Tesla Motors is planning to modify its electric cars to meet China’s charging standards, in order to boost sales in the country by eliminating concerns over its technology incompatibility. A national charging standard is being ...
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Facing flat growth, Indonesian textile industry may see moreLAID- unless the government takes some swift action to help the industry, a leading Indonesian daily has mentioned. Several textile manufacturers in Bandung regency have ...
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Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria, including textile and clothing firms, face several challenges—access to finance, rickety infrastructure, patchy energy supplies and security concerns, says a recent Economist ...
India's e-commerce sector would grow at a rate of 10-15 per cent annually, higher than the GDP growth rate, in coming years, minister of state for finance Jayant Sinha said in New Delhi, the media has reported. The minister also said that ...
Tags: E-Commerce
China will come out with a five-year plan (2016-20) for the development of its strategic emerging industries and to further boost its innovation efforts, the nation's top economic planner said on Friday. The National Development and ...
Tags: Emerging Industries, Economy
Women are playing a part as important as their male peers in driving the growth of e-commerce in China, a report said on Thursday. As of last year, women were running more than half of the shops on Taobao and Tmall, the two largest online ...
Tags: Online Economy, e-commerce
Solid waste management company Renew Bahamas has set up the first-of-its-kind materials recycling facility (MRF) in the Bahamas, to process residential and commercial waste. The unit, commissioned by Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie, ...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published the 2015 edition of the Solid-State Lighting (SSL) R&D Plan. A consolidation of DOE's SSL Multi-Year Program Plan and SSL Manufacturing R&D Roadmap of previous years, the new R&D Plan was ...
A new fund that focuses on developing China's next generation of industry - so-called Industry 4.0 - through investment in German small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will soon have its initial $1 billion raised, its founder says. ...
South Africa will stop imposing tariffs on poultry imports from the US, paving the way to resume trade in the country which had been closed for the past 15 years. The two countries have reached an agreement to this effect, as per which, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Policy, Opinion
The government of Ontario in Canada is investing around $5.2m in food projects to encourage local food production in the province. The funding is a part of the Ontario government's strategy to increase consumer awareness of and access to ...
Tags: Food Production, Food
The nuclear energy industry is pushing to keep a critical export agreement with China on the books beyond the end of this year. A nuclear cooperation agreement that allows United States companies to export their products and ...
Government's push of e-commerce in rural areas will stimulate online fresh food sales A government-backed drive toward e-commerce can help open up the agricultural sector and generate a rapid increase in incomes for farmers. At a ...
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China's greenhouse gas emissions could peak over five years earlier than expected, which will contribute to the effort of curbing global warming, according to a report jointly published Monday by two institutes at the London School of ...
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India has risen to 15th position on the back of solid growth in retail sales and strong prospects for future GDP growth, according to global management consulting firm A.T. Kearney's Global Retail Development Index (GRDI) 2015 that surveyed ...
Tags: India retail, E-commerce, Economy