The proposed Constitution Amendment Bill on Goods and Services Tax (GST), introduced by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Lok Sabha last month, is expected to smoothen business process (ease of doing business) for ecommerce companies by ...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MoAF), Oman, has started to restore the local cotton variety farming in Oman and aims to cultivate up to 120 acres of land in the next few years, Muscatdaily.com reported. The revival project ...
Tags: raw material, cotton cultivation, Textile
Samsung has announced a new addition to its SSD lineup in the shape of the Samsung SSD T1, a solid state drive wrapped up in a compact portable package. Conventional 2.5in SSD drives are inherently portable thanks to being relatively ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Samsung, CES
Asus has finally officially unveiled the Asus Transformer Book Chi line-up of hybrid Windows laptop/tablet devices. Teased last year at Computex, the trio of new laptops now has a full list of specs and prices, with the flagship T300 ...
Tags: Asus, Book, Consumer Electronics
Sharp has lifted the lid on its new 2015 Sharp Aquos 4K UHD line-up at CES 2015, including its new flagship TV set. During its CES 2015 press conference, Sharp revealed several new TV lines, which will be offered in seven screen sizes. ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Sharp, CES
The Renminbi exchange rate will remain stable in 2015, a macro economic report from China International Capital Corporation (CICC) predicted Monday. "Despite the weaker spot exchange rate of the Renminbi against the dollar, the ...
China's consumer price index (CPI), the main gauge of inflation, is estimated to grow by about 1.4 percent in December from a year earlier, the latest report from the Bank of Communications (BOC) said. The National Bureau of Statistics ...
Tags: CPI, consumer price
LED epitaxial wafer and chipmaker as well as LED packaging service provider Lextar Electronics have received orders for LED light tubes with urgent shipments, according to the company. LED chip prices began to slip in the third quarter of ...
The textile industry of the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu aspires to climb up the textile value chain and realise its true potential for which it is depending upon the central government, said an official of a trade body. D Prabhu, ...
Taiwan's 2015 machinery exports to see rough going. In Jan.-Nov.2014, Taiwan shipped US$19 billion of machinery, up only 6.4% year on year, with the island's machine-tool industry having exported US$3.43 billion of equipment, growing at ...
Tags: machine-tool industry, high-performance machines, Manufacturing
China's economy is likely to expand at a slower pace of 7 percent in 2015 and 7.3 percent this year, a government think tank said in a report on Monday. Due to factors such as overcapacity in some manufacturing industries, the country's GDP ...
Tags: China Economy, home price
The prices of both imported and domestically produced LPG rebounded in East and South China this week, after falling 21-34% over the previous five weeks, supported by increasing demand and improving sentiment, trade sources said Friday, ...
The reduction of bank credit available to the diamond industry is a game changer that will influence the market for many years to come. Therefore, this column has chosen bank credit as its most important story of 2014, rising above other ...
Tags: diamond industry, diamond market
“Degradable natural fibres have an advantage over synthetics when it comes to the environment. Having said that, there are developments in the pipeline to aid the environmental sustainability of synthetics,” the head of a full ...
Tags: synthetics, wool, cashmere, alpaca, Textile
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his government to control the rising prices of vodka to avoid consumption of spurious, cheaper liquor. Reuters quoted Putin as saying: "The overshoot of vodka prices leads only to ...
Tags: liquor, bootleg, Agriculture