The mainland company Unigroup's investment in Taiwan's semiconductor industry is purely commercial and should not be politicized, a mainland official said Wednesday. Unigroup, controlled by the prestigious Tsinghua University, is buying ...
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The cash price for CARBOB gasoline in Los Angeles, California, climbed 14 cents/gal Wednesday, supported by nearly 1 million b/d of refinery capacity affected by unplanned maintenance issues. Los Angeles CARBOB was assessed at NYMEX ...
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Qiandongnan's Xijiang village, the country's largest ethnic Miao community. WANG KAIHAO/CHINA DAILY It is like taking a walk back in time. Women from the Dong ethnic group in the 800-year-old Huanggang village are dyeing shiny traditional ...
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Ecobuild Southeast Asia with its comprehensive showcase of sustainable construction products and solutions will be held on 12-14 April 2016 at Kuala Lumpur Convention Center, Malaysia. Themed “Driving Productivity in ...
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In a strongly worded statement late Wednesday, Visa called on the world's premier soccer organization to "take swift and immediate steps" to clean up its act. Adidas (ADDDF) called on FIFA to raise its standards. The Adidas Group is fully ...
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Shanghai's new home market continued to grow last week with increases seen in transactions and supply, according to latest market data. The area of new homes sold, excluding government-funded affordable housing, jumped 24.7 percent to ...
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With the approaching Christmas holiday and the typical seasonal construction slowdown, buyers are expecting US rebar prices to remain largely flat through year-end. "Our fabrication division is staying very busy and is not wrapping up by ...
The amount of natural gas used by UK power stations to generate electricity neared an 11-month high Monday as unfavorable weather conditions for renewable generation technologies led to higher gas-fired generation, figures from the National ...
Restart of nuclear reactors in Japan, growing renewable sources of energy and a slow economy are expected to push down the country's LNG consumption by 2020 by as much as 10.5% from 2014 levels, Eclipse Energy said this week. Japan's LNG ...
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The NYMEX January natural gas futures contract continued its downward slide Tuesday, dropping 6.8 cents to settle at $1.826/MMBtu as warm weather forecasts continue to put significant pressure on the contract. The National Weather ...
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A recent CNET report has noted Philips Hue latest operation software update in the form has ousted third-party smart bulbs, due to interoperability issues. The Philips Hue operating software update to version 1.11, released for first and ...
Century Aluminum is proposing to continue operating its 224,000 mt/year Mt Holly smelter in South Carolina at 50% capacity even as the company on Monday began shutting down the first potline in a dispute with its longtime electricity ...
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Russian-origin styrene butadiene rubber 1502 grade was seen being offered at prices similar to offers from mainland Europe this week eroding the Eur50-200 spread between product from the two sources through 2015, trade sources said. ...
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China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., or Sinopec, has reduced its North China toluene ex-factory offers by Yuan 200/mt ($30.97/mt), or about 4%, Tuesday, amid weakness in demand and the yuan, an industry source said. Its North China ...
U.S. farmers will harvest 13.9 billion bushels of corn, the second-largest crop ever, and 3.785 billion bushels of soybeans next year, USDA said in its first projections of the new crop. The new crops would follow three years of bumper ...