Continued growth is expected for the Asia-Pacific data centre industry in 2013 and 2014, according to global data centre vendor Digital Realty Trust. In its latest annual Asia-Pacific data centre demand study, which surveyed 401 senior ...
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Emirates Tim Clark and Qantas Alan Joyce at the signing of the agreement. Understandably, Qantas and Emirates airlines have welcomed the ACCC's conditional approval of their partnership, while the Transport Workers Union continues its ...
THE Australian dollar pushed higher during Asia trade today, helped by a weaker greenback and after the Reserve Bank of Australia said interest rate cuts are starting to flow through the economy, buoying market expectations that the bank's ...
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The AWEX Regional Indicators finished 2.0% lower, on average, at sales in Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle last week. The US exchange rate rose by 0.9% to break above the 104¢ for the first time since mid-January. This was the last ...
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CHINESE supplier Yuanda has won $85 million worth of contracts on the SA Health and Medical Research Institute and the new Royal Adelaide Hospital. This month, Shenyang Yuanda Aluminium Industry Engineering trading as Yuanda began ...
Standards Australia International Limited is Australia's only accreditation body standards. The agency was established in 1922, was known as the Engineering Standards Association of Australia, in 1929 changed its name to the Australian ...
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The Australian dollar fell sharply today after China announced a tightening of controls on high-yielding financial products that form a key part of the country's shadow-banking system. Traders said the announcement highlighted risks that ...
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Over the past two weeks, glass manufacturing workers at CSR Viridian’s plants in Sydney and Melbourne have spoken to World S ocialist W eb S ite correspondents about the closure and merger of facilities that will cost more than 200 ...
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AUSTRALIA'S former ambassador to China, Geoff Raby, yesterday called for Sydney to push to become a trading centre for the Chinese yuan so the currency is available for tourist transactions as it is in Hong Kong. Mr Raby, who is now a ...
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THE dollar is trading near $US1.046 heading into the start of the domestic trading day. At 6.30am AEDT, the Aussie was trading at $US1.0458, little changed from yesterday's local close of $US1.0455. During the overnight offshore ...
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TRANSFIELD Services has signed a two-year contract worth up to $170 million with NBN Co to construct the fibre network in metropolitan Sydney and suburban areas. The contract, which comes with two one-year options to renew, adds to the ...
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THE world's peak internet naming authority is expected to approve hundreds of new generic top-level domain suffixes over the coming months, with .melbourne expected to beat .sydney to the web. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names ...
Federal Transport and Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese has piled a few additional responsibilities onto his already sizeable portfolio following the aborted leadership challenge in the Labor party. Despite being a Kevin Rudd ...
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The 2013 Melbourne Motor Show has been cancelled as more and more manufacturers pull budgets away from big industry events in favour of more customer tailored efforts. The Melbourne Motor Show, which was set to start on the 28th of June, ...
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Freight operators will soon have better access to the Chullora Intermodal with the Federal and NSW governments agreeing to jointly fund the first stage of upgrades of the local roads connecting the facility to the Hume Highway. The ...