China's cabinet, the State Council, decided on Wednesday to further streamline administration by "separating" business licenses from administrative permits to create a more favorable business environment. The pilot reform, which allows ...
Mao's letter bearing his and Zhu De's signatures.[Photo/China Daily] A letter from Mao Zedong appealing to the leader of the British Labour Party in 1937 for help against Japanese invaders has sold for 605,000 pounds ($908,000) at auction ...
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After eight months of patient, indirect and difficult contact with the Dutch collector, the villagers of Yangchun in south-east China's Fujian province failed to get back the mummy Buddha statue of Patriarch Zhanggong which was stolen in ...
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SUEZ Great Britain Reuse & Recycle Co., Ltd. (Its name was Great Britain SITA Co., Ltd. before March, 2015. Thereafter it is shorted as “SUEZ”), the multinational resource recycle specialist procured 7 FEL garbage truck ...
UK-based RPC Group will acquire French closures and dispensing systems manufacturer GCS Group for €650m in a bid to bolster its position in European plastic packaging market. RPC proposes to fund the acquisition by combining ...
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Gloucester City located in Massachusetts, U.S. will be upgrading its streetlights to warm 3,000K LED lights, reported Gloucester Times. The city’s Department of Community Development drew 50 to 55 responses from residents to decide ...
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US-based beer brewer Pabst Brewing Company (PBC) has entered into a long-term distribution partnership with Vermont Hard Cider Company, which is manufacturer of American cider. The agreement entails that Vermont Hard Cider will sell ...
Wind generation in November blew through a 31-month-old record share of total energy in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, a new report shows, and an expert said it contributed to ERCOT's low on-peak power prices that month. Wind ...
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Crude futures fell Friday after the International Energy Agency said global oil markets will remain oversupplied at least through 2016. NYMEX January crude settled $1.14 lower at $35.62/b. ICE January Brent settled down $1.80 at $37.93/b. ...
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, says that for full-year 2016 it expects net sales ...
Tags: First Solar Thin-film photovoltaic CdTe, Tempe AZ, Electrical
The Buddha statue on display at the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest in March. [Photo/Xinhua] A 1000-year-old Buddha statue with a mummified monk inside, now in possession of Dutch private collector Oscar van Overeem, ...
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Modern direct-shift production at the KODA Vrchlabí plant has received an intelligent assistant: An innovative lightweight robot is now aiding employees in the 'gear actuator piston insertion' manufacturing step. This is the first ...
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The East Coast Railway (ECoR) in India has implemented the central government sponsored Domestic Efficient Lighting Program (DELP) in areas under its jurisdiction, reported The Times of India. Under the program, the LED bulbs are ...
Cal-Comp, a subsidiary of New Kinpo Group (NKG), and a leading global electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company, is to expand its presence in South America, by opening a new factory and adding a new plastic injection production line ...
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Supply chain logistics company Brambles has moved to 100 per cent ownership of keg logistics and distribution business Kegstar ahead of an expansion into the UK market. Brambles, which bought an initial 30 per cent in Kegstar in March ...