Japan's Marubeni plans to begin transporting LNG from the US to South Korea via a joint venture with a major South Korean shipping group, the Nikkei newspaper reported Friday. The Japanese trading house and SK Shipping have jointly ...
Arkema announces that it has acquired a majority stake in AEC Polymers, a French manufacturer of structural adhesives. AEC Polymers recently developed a range of methacrylate glues (SAF® range) based on an Arkema technology, which boast ...
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Canada-based Sun Life Financial and Khazanah Nasional in Kuala Lumpur have completed the acquisition of CIMB Aviva Assurance and CIMB Aviva Takaful after receiving regulatory approvals in Malaysia and Canada. CIMB Aviva Assurance is a ...
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China-based LED industry leader Sanan Optoelectronics has been accused of falsifying financial reports, according to China-based media. This has sparked a debate concerning what critics say is the China government's excessive support for ...
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Canada based financial services group Manulife Financial and HDFC Life, the Indian affiliate of Standard Life, have submitted their bids to acquire HSBC's Indian life insurance arm, which has a market value of nearly $200m. As part of a ...
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BP has a portfolio of 45 major upstream projects that it wants to focus on to 2020, company CEO Bob Dudley said Thursday, following the company's unprecedented $38 billion asset sell-off program in the wake of the Macondo oil spill in 2010. ...
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Despite the rejection this week by Italy's Constitutional Court of a bid by local prosecutors to shut down the Taranto facilities of Italian steel producer Ilva, the prosecutors have today, April 12, turned down a request by Ilva's lawyers ...
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Systems management software vendor BMC Software has announced job cuts following the conclusion of a review into its operations. The restructuring will result in a pre-tax charge estimated at between $33m and $38m (£21m and ...
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Liaoning Province-based Chinese steelmaker Lingyuan Iron and Steel Co. has announced that it has received a notice from the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the city of Chaoyang in Liaoning Province informing ...
At universities today, Cobol is mostly taught as an elective, and even then it's likely offered at less than one in four schools. For most students, this means the odds are high that they will attend a school that does not offer Cobol. ...
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The issues with sharing confidential patient information needs to be tackled before the NHS attempts to go paperless, according to Dr Jonathan Richardson, clinical director of informatics at the Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation ...
The wife of Volkswagen AG chairman Ferdinand Piech is set to join the supervisory board of the Volkswagen Group-owned Audi, almost a year after being elected to the board of Volkswagen AG. An Audi spokesperson confirmed the the likely ...
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The sharemarket fell slightly yesterday as traders took profits in financial stocks and other defensives, while continuing to buy miners after China's benign March inflation data sparked an upturn in commodity prices. The benchmark ...
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NK Chemicals has announced that the Barentz Group has taken an equity stake in both NKC Europe Ltd and sister company, NKC USA, Inc. Sponsored Links Acute Pain Management Training Official suppliers of NHS Acute Pain Management Training ...
Russia's Gazprom and Dutch company Gasunie have signed an agreement to explore the possibility of expanding the Nord Stream gas pipeline as well as setting up other gas infrastructure projects in Northwest Europe and the UK, the companies ...
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