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 ...
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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, ...
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The annual Christmas eve traffic snarl is underway in Beijing. Thousands of young people are flocking to the city centre for Christmas dinners and shopping. The area around Sanlitun and Beijing Worker's Stadium, known in the Chinese ...
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A winter Nadam as well as a fire sacrifice festival kicked off on Tuesday in Old Barag Banner (county) of Hulunbuir, a city of North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region. Popular sports events and entertainment among ethnic Mongolians ...
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Valmet is to supply a CompactCooking G2 pulp cooking system to Siam Cellulose's pulp mill in Ban Pong, Thailand. Siam Cellulose already operates two CompactCooking plants at its mills in the country. The 2-vessel continuous cooking ...
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Top 10 Orlando Trade Shows Orlando, Florida is consistently one of the largest trade show and exhibition cities in the country. Home to more than a dozen amusement parks, most notably Walt Disney World and Universal Studios, Orlando is ...
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People danced to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday at Lotus Lake Park, Fengtai district, on Sept 26. It was also the final competition of Dancing Beijing, an annual contest for amateur dancers. The finalists ...
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The blockbuster art show 15 Rooms, which opened at the Long Museum in Shanghai on Thursday, has created quite a stir. At the live-art exhibition, artists and artist groups from different cultural backgrounds present artwork through ...
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Xue Kaizhong was not surprised when the gold and silver coins he bought on Aug 27 for 6,600 yuan ($1,033) were worth 9,000 yuan in mid-September. The 64-year-old, who lives in Zhongshan, Guangdong province, stood in line for two hours to ...
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Most of them dropped out of high school because of poverty. They were farmers before changing, ahem, their profession. They have appeared on TV and performed at various galas. To top it all, they have also performed on CCTV's Spring ...
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A surge in interest in GMO-free or non-GMO products, and continuing growth in the free-from category, is driving consumer demand for cleaner labelling and greater transparency on packaging. The free-from category has been buoyed by ...
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In lively colors of green, blue, orange and red, six sculptures of Alhambra Towers by celebrated Spanish artist Cristobal Gabarron are on exhibit in the open square of Beijing's Today Art Museum. This is Gabarron's first solo show here. ...
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General Motors (GM) has received the first load of massive stamping presses for its $174m stamping facility, which is a part of the Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant in Michigan, US. The new presses, which will save about $14 million a ...
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Chinese pianist Lang Lang records his new album at the Palace of Versailles, Chen Nan reports. Chinese pianist Lang Lang is seeking to highlight a connection between Russian composer Tchaikovsky and Polish composer Frederic Chopin, both ...
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