The UK's oil producers group Oil & Gas UK cut Wednesday its forecasts for oil and gas production this year amid signs that declining output from mature fields and outages in the North Sea continue to outpace the impact of new projects and ...
Tags: Oil, Gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Symphony Environmental Technologies Plc, global specialists in advanced plastics and tyre recycling technologies, is pleased to announce that it has signed a five year supply and marketing agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica, a division of ...
During his eight years as chief executive of the PPMA,? member numbers have risen to more than 400 through mergers with a number of related trade associations. The last year has been marked by his leading the PPMA out of the joint venture ...
Chinese telecoms hardware maker Huawei says that its profits for the first half of the year were up 10 per cent, after posting its operating interim results for 2013. It follows an increase in revenue of almost 11 per cent over the same ...
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The government is to review Huawei's Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (the Cell) and will report its findings later in the year. The Chinese telecommunications firm, which has flourished on a global scale in recent years, has been ...
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One of Britain's most senior security officials will review a cybersecurity centre operated by Chinese company Huawei after concerns that the telecommunications firm - which is playing an increasingly large role in Britain's internet ...
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UK government is planning to grant permission for the testing of driverless vehicle technology on the country's public roads by the end of 2013. The move is part of the Department of Transports new £28bn road investment and strategy ...
Tags: Driverless Vehicles, Auto
The UK government is likely to scrap the plan to introduce minimum pricing for alcohol in England and Wales, and instead target loss-leader deals. According to reports, Home Secretary Theresa May will address Members of Parliament this ...
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Friday (12 July) that a decision on plain packaging had been postponed in order to assess how a similar scheme was operating in Australia. 'Protect jobs' Former managing director of Weidenhammer UK ...
UK government has collaborated with the county's automotive industry to make GBP1m investments in an advanced propulsion centre (APC) over the next ten years. Both the government and automotive industry will invest GBP500m each in the APC ...
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The apparel retailers in the US and the EU are aiming at safety in Bangladesh readymade garments (RMG) factories although they have adopted different initiatives to ensure safety in the clothing firms of the country. The two strong ...
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Shale gas production in the UK could boost tax revenues and improve the nation's trade balance, but is unlikely to reduce gas prices, and is no short-term fix for national energy needs, according to Howard Rogers of the Oxford Institute for ...
UK Cabinet Minister Alan Duncan and Justine Greening, secretary of state for international development, have discussed with about 20 retailers including Marks & Spencer and Tesco, how clothing can be produced in safe conditions. ...
Tags: Safe Apparel Making, Apparel
Defra has announced that it is to reduce Wrap’s budget by 40% to £15.5m, as part of Chancellor George Osborne’s Spending Review Defra said that its funding for Wrap is to reduce to 60% of its current level of ...
Two Wikileaks volunteers have revealed that Google released data from their Gmail accounts to the US government under the secret, legally enforced information seizures being made by the Prism security group. Since Prism, and the secret, ...
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