The PCI Fibres Conference 2013 will take place November 7 and 8 at the JW Marriott Hotel, Pacific Place, in Hong Kong. Topics include the supply of the various fiber raw materials and the situation in the Asia-Pacific region. The PCI ...
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Stock markets in Moscow and copper mines in Chile appear to have little in common. But these are two spots where investors in New York and London have been pumping money borrowed on the cheap to seek out big returns. Aggressive monetary ...
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China has increased the value-added tax from four percent to five percent on imports of planes with an empty weight of above 25 metric tons, the central government announced on Monday. Meanwhile, for imported planes with an empty ...
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Chinese economy might suffer ups and downs, but its long-term prospect remains bright, Daniel Gros, director of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), told Xinhua. The senior expert painted a much rosier picture for the world's ...
China announced policies on Friday to ramp up support for renewable energy projects, in a bid to curb air pollution. The National Development and Reform Commission issued new subsidy standards for distributed solar power generation ...
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Tech companies are hanging onto record amounts of cash, and industry watchers want to see more of it reinvested in the companies or distributed to shareholders. FactSet, a financial research firm, tallied all the cash and marketable ...
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NSW government agencies will now be required to evaluate Cloud-based services when undertaking new procurements under the state's first Cloud services policy. The policy, announced today by incoming financial services minister Andrew ...
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The UAE and Saudi Arabia have emerged as the biggest markets among GCC states for the deployment of solar power, accounting for most of the projects. The six GCC countries altogether have sanctioned solar power installation projects worth ...
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The Thai government raised the reference price of biodiesel by Baht 1.22/liter from Friday to Baht 29.05/liter Monday, the fifth price change in a month, due to weaker local currency rates and higher methanol prices. A spokeswoman for the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, methanol
The government could save up to £70bn by 2020 if it shifted away from paper and digitised its activities, learned to work in new ways but with fewer staff, sought out for the best procurement deals, and made use of data and analytics, ...
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The winners of the 2013 Queensland Supply Chain & Logistics Awards, held in cooperation between the Supply Chain & Logistics Association of Australia, Queensland Division, and Telstra Enterprise and Government, All Purpose Transport, ...
Global efforts to battle trade protectionism need to be reinforced to help shield the fragile economic recovery across the world. In a report released today, the European Commission identified about 150 new trade restrictions introduced ...
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Transport Certification Australia (TCA) will be expanding the Intelligent Access Program (IAP) to incorporate the use of type-approved on-board mass units (OBMU), to be known as IAP Mass (IAPm). Commonly recognised as weigh scales or mass ...
The Indian government is expected to require that Indian bureaucrats use email service provided by the National Informatics Center for their official work, as it tries to secure its communications infrastructure. The requirement will be ...
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Abu Dhabi National Insurance (ADNIC) launched a new suite of medical insurance products after collecting feedback from major brokers, customers and insurance partners. The new suite of products is divided into four tiers named platinum, ...