In June this year, South Korea's new car registrations fell 4.6 percent month on month to 12,792 units, increasing by 20.9 percent year on year, according to the data released by the Korea Automobile Importers and Distributors Association ...
Tags: Car Registrations, Mineral
Despite a major surplus in the light-emitting diode (LED) market, the top suppliers are increasing their capital spending and production because of government incentives and in order to cash in on an expected boom in the lighting business, ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics
Despite a major surplus in the light-emitting diode (LED) market, top suppliers are increasing their capital spending and production because of government incentives and in order to cash in on an expected boom in the lighting business. ...
Tags: LED, light-emitting diode, Electrical, Electronics
An Android tablet brought back from North Korea by a tourist has provided a glimpse at some of the restrictions placed on IT users in the famously secretive country. The Samjiyon is the third tablet to have gone on sale in North Korea. It ...
Tags: Android, Computer Products
China's move to slap retaliatory antidumping tariffs on solar polysilicon imported from the US and South Korea will cause only a slight increase in domestic pricing for the material, according to IHS. The Ministry of Commerce in China ...
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The Central Asian country of Turkmenistan is expecting to harvest around 1.05 million tons of cotton this season from an area of 550,000 hectares, mainly in Mary and Akhal provinces. Exceeding the Government’s estimates by 11 ...
The European Commission (EC) has approved US-based Archer Daniels Midland's (ADM) proposed acquisition of Australian grain handler and processor GrainCorp for A$2.8bn ($2.95bn). The approval by the EC brings the number of government ...
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US based vehicle manufacturer General Motors (GM) is planning to introduce its next-generation Chevrolet Spark mini car during the first half of 2015. The manufacturer is reported to have postponed the launch of its revamped Aveo small ...
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The South Korea based Lotte Chemical is operating its Yeosu-based monoethylene glycol (MEG) plant at reduced rates. “The MEG plant is operating at 40 percent operating rates due to weak demand and lower prices of MEG,” a ...
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According to the introduction from Taiwan-based LED manufacturers, Japan-based Nichia is the world's largest supplier of High Brightness LED, and it has occupied a leading market status in EMC-based LED chip packaging industry, but some LED ...
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"ArcelorMittal exports 200,000t auto sheet to China every year, most of which are delivered to joint ventures in China like Das Auto, GM, and Ford. Starting from this October, all these products will transfer to Valin ArcelorMittal ...
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The global smartphone market showed healthy growth in the second quarter, but Apple's iPhone was squeezed by competition from Samsung and other Asian manufacturers, surveys showed Friday. Apple's share of the global smartphone market fell ...
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China imported 275,337 mt of methanol in June, 40% less than it did in May, data released by the General Administration of Customs on Tuesday showed. The fall can be explained by the high domestic methanol production in the country. Over ...
According to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2013-2014/Q3 2013 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), EU steel imports remained at a high level in the second quarter of the current year, after ...
The exports of readymade garments from Bangladesh to 11 non-traditional markets soared by 28.75 percent year-on-year during the just concluded financial year, according to the data from the Export Promotion Bureau. Bangladesh’s ...
Tags: Garment Exports, Apparel