The Palace Museum in Beijing is one of the country's first UNESCO World Heritage sites. [Photo by Zhuo Ensen/China Daily] China celebrates UNESCO founding with pledge to protect its own sites and do more, Wang Kaihao reports. Preservers ...
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The 18th-century gilded-bronze chime clock by a British craftsman will go under the hammer on Monday. [Photo provided to China Daily] An 18th-century British clock, once kept at a Chinese royal court, is among a dozen antiquities that ...
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Power management company Eaton today announced that more than 20,000 of its light-emitting diode (LED) luminaires are listed on the DesignLights Consortium™ (DLC) Qualified Product List (QPL). The QPL is a leading industry resource ...
An Electric Reliability Council of Texas report released Tuesday shows the independent system operator expects the supply of electricity to be tighter in summer 2016 than it did in the May version of the report. ERCOT's Capacity, Demand ...
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Iran unveiled its hotly anticipated new petroleum contracts to dozens of international oil companies in Tehran Saturday, and the first set of new tenders could be released by late January, a senior Iranian oil official said. The two-day ...
Tags: Oil, LNG, Iran Petroleum
Researchers based in USA have been studying performance improvements in aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) ultraviolet (UV) avalanche photodiodes (APDs) gained from using free-standing gallium nitride substrates instead of gallium nitride on ...
Tags: AlGaN, Ultraviolet photodetectors, HVPE
Following a global commitment to sustainable fishing practices, McDonald's Spain will be the first restaurant chain to include Pacifical skipjack tuna certified by the Marine Stewardship Council on their national menu. January 2016, more ...
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When USF Holland sought more energy-efficient lighting for its 53 terminals, it chose Orion Energy Systems, a designer and manufacturer of high-performance, energy-efficient retrofit lighting platforms. The partnership with USF Holland ...
Tags: LED luminaires, USF Holland, LED dock lights
The Japanese government intends to phase out the country’s incandescent light bulbs and fluorescent tubes by 2020, and convert all lights to LEDs, reported Asahi Shinbun. The policy was formulated ahead of the 21st Conference of the ...
Tags: LED lamps, light bulbs, fluorescent tubes
The Furniture Awards, a scheme which sets out to identify the best new products launched at the January Furniture Show, created by Furniture News magazine in partnership with the show’s organiser, will take place again this January. ...
Tags: Furniture Awards, drawers, sofa, Nucleus chair
Glass and metal packaging company Ardagh Group won gold at this year’s Cans of the Year Awards in Scotland. Ardagh produced a partial internal lacquer in a DWI can for ConAgra Foodservice’s Hunt’s tomatoes in the US, and ...
PicoBrew has launched new models of their award-winning Pico craft beer brewing machine on the crowd-funding site Kickstarter. The world's most compact and easy to use craft-beer-brewing machine has already received outstanding support on ...
The latest Roy Morgan Research has confirmed that potato chips top the category of Australia’s favourite snacks, a status the humble packet chip (or ‘crisp’ as it is sometimes referred) has retained for the past five ...
Tags: Potato Chips, snack-food
Queen Nazli of Egypt wore this Van Cleef & Arpels necklace to her daughter’s wedding in 1939. Sotheby’s said she attended the event “literally covered in diamonds.” A platinum and diamond necklace made in 1939 for ...
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FAW Jiefang Fuel Economy Challenge & Customer Group Purchase Activity was held in Shijiazhuang. Wang Lei from Shijiazhuang Bingfeng Refrigerating Logistics Co., Ltd. drove his FAW Jiefang truck which only consumed 14.5 liter fuel for 100 ...
Tags: High Fuel Economy, Jiefang Sell 95 Units Trucks, 4/6 liter Deutz engine