Discussion of sovereignty over the Internet has long been a taboo, dismissed in Western media as violation of freedom. The time has come to drag the issue into the cold, hard light of day, and China, with an online population of 670 ...
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Bear Grylls, British explorer.[Photo provided to China Daily] British explorer Bear Grylls' Chinese mainland TV debut has garnered attention from major European buyers, making it the first Chinese outdoors reality show to be sold ...
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Trinley (right) performs at the Norbulingka Park in Lhasa during the Shoton Festival.[Photo provided to China Daily] Trinley, 76, narrates Buddhist folktales depicted in the Thangka paintings using a wooden stick. Usually, it takes hours, ...
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The price of Australian alumina continued to drift sideways Thursday, leaving Platts daily assessment unchanged at $200/mt FOB, despite a slight slippage of Yuan 15/mt ($2.30) in Chinese domestic prices in Shanxi province. The Australian ...
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Investment bank Goldman Sachs late Wednesday lowered its iron ore price forecast for 2017 by $5/dmt to $35/dmt CFR China after a faster-than-expected softening in seaborne prices. "Iron ore prices have reached our $40/dmt forecast one ...
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The European Commission has cleared commodities trading group Trafigura's minority holding in Belgium-based zinc and lead producer Nyrstar. In November, Trafigura told the EC its minority 20.02% stake in Nyrstar -- held through its ...
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The announced merger between petrochemical giants Dow Chemical and DuPont will have a significant impact on the low-density polyethylene market and could be just the beginning of large-scale consolidations, an industry consultant said ...
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New Orleans bunker fuel remained in short supply Thursday, which has caused high-sulfur product prices in that port to spike relative to the nearby and competing Houston market. New Orleans IFO 380 3.5%S was assessed at $205/mt ex-wharf ...
Demand for natural gas and therefore liquefied natural gas from Chile's power industry collapsed in November following a sharp increase in the availability of cheap hydroelectricity after a wet winter and spring, energy ministry data show. ...
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The Asian gasoil market saw a sharp reversal in fortunes this month as higher exports from India and North Asia and weakness in Europe, despite the cold season, clamped shut arbitrage outflows from Asia, resulting in a buildup in supply ...
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France's oil giant Total and international trading firms Trafigura and Vitol were among 21 companies handed crude oil term lifting contracts for 2016 by state oil firm Nigerian National Petroleum Corp, NNPC said Thursday. "NNPC issued ...
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“We recently upgraded the software for Philips Hue to ensure the best seamless connected lighting experience for our customers. This change was made in good faith. However, we under estimated the impact this would have on a small ...
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A team of engineers from Cornell University, the University of Notre Dame and the semiconductor company IQE has created gallium nitride (GaN) power diodes capable of serving as the building blocks for future GaN power switches -- with ...
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The construction site of Hualong One is pictured here on Dec. 9, 2015. [Photo: CRI Online] The construction of China's nuclear power plant Hualong One, in southeast China's Fujian province, has made new progress, with part of its 13-layer ...
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang shakes hands with Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Masimov at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on December 14, 2015. [Photo: Xinhua] Premier Li Keqiang held talks with his Kazakh counterpart Karim Massimov in ...