A credit card is an important thing to have when globetrotting, not least because many forms of online reservation require credit rather than debit payment. For those anticipating a long stay in China, a credit card may seem like a good ...
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The Cotton Association of India (CAI) has downwardly revised the country’s cotton output for the ongoing season 2014-15 to 397 lakh bales of 170 kg each from its December 2014 estimate of 400.25 lakh bales, a news agency reported. ...
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Pakistan’s ministry of textile industry has announced the long-awaited Textile Policy 2014-19, which sets annual exports target of US$ 26 billion by 2019. “The annual exports target of $26 billion by 2019 is ambitious but ...
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Virtually all the indicators, from manufacturing activity to trade data, point to weakening. Expectations of an immanent reduction in the real interest rate have never been higher, despite the central bank's insistence on reining in ...
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Rare-metal supplier Vital Materials Co Ltd of Guangzhou, China (which focuses on germanium, gallium, bismuth, selenium, cadmium, tellurium and indium) has further increased its production capacity for germanium metal and blanks, now ...
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China's consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, grew 0.8 percent year on year in January, the slowest rise in more than five years, the National Bureau of Statistics announced Tuesday. Food prices, which account for nearly ...
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Prices of raw materials such as iron ore, coal, crude oil and refined oil have been hitting record low prices on the global market, but import volumes into China. Although the trade balance has continued to be in excess of exports over ...
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Inatex, the 13th Indonesia International Creative Textile Apparel Accessories Exhibition, and Indo Intertex, the Indonesia International Textile and Garment Machinery & Accessories Exhibition, will take place from 23-25 April 2015, at ...
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Although domestic orders appeared to rise, overall orders with the Italian textile machinery sector dropped in the fourth quarter of 2014, primarily from a dip in overseas orders. In the fourth quarter, overall textile machinery orders ...
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Skoda has announced that the company has ramped up production capacity at its Mladá Boleslav plant in Czech Republic. The manufacturing capacities for Skoda Fabia, Fabia Combi (estate), and Skoda Rapid Spaceback has been increased ...
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President Xi Jinping unveiled his thinking about the Chinese economy, saying the world's second largest economy is seeing a "new normal" emerging. China's 2014 economic growth edged down to a 24-year low of 7.4% from 7.7% in 2013, ...
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China will improve industrial and commercial cooperation with countries along the "Belt and Road," an official said Tuesday. A bilateral cooperation mechanism between China and countries such as Mongolia, Iran and Turkey will be created ...
This year's Spring Festival will be the first time Wu Rongrong uses China's bullet train to return home. The 2,000 km trip from Beijing, where the 27-year-old works selling sporting goods, to her home city of Guilin in Guangxi Zhuang ...
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After a stronger-than-expected Christmas trading period, retail spending growth will slow heading into 2015, according to the sixteenth edition of the AFGC CHEP Retail Index released late last week. The AFGC CHEP Retail Index is a ...
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Australia saw a rise of 1.9 per cent in both the volume and value of wine exports in 2014, according to the latest Wine Export Approval Report, released by the Australian Grape and Wine Authority (AGWA). Premium wine segments saw ...
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