Beginning this year, textiles will gradually become the largest export segment in Indonesia, overtaking the commodity-based segment, predicts a report published recently by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC). ...
Tags: textiles, export segment, textile sector
This year's Budget is a good one for manufacturers. Together with other leading trade associations, we argued the case for reducing the rising cost of energy and the Chancellor has responded with a £7bn support package. We have also ...
Tags: Office Supplies
It's 3am on the first day of 2014. Shanghai's Hengshan Road, an area popular for restaurants and nightclubs, is lit up with what seems like hundreds of bright green taxi lights, inviting the rowdy New Year's crowd to hop in. But the drivers ...
Tags: Taxi Apps, Government Regulations, taxi
Copper cathode inventories at China's Shanghai Futures Stock Exchange warehouses rose for the eight straight week to 207,320 mt as of March 7, up 4.6% week on week, according to SHFE data released late Friday. SHFE copper cathode stocks ...
Tags: Copper Cathode, SHFE Warehouses
The theme of the 73rd Plenary Meeting of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) will be “From Land to Brand: Strengthening the Cotton Value Chain". This annual event is one of the premier fixtures in the world cotton ...
Tags: Cotton Value, Apparel, Textile
If you are basking in the convenience of doing an online bank transfer at a coffee house while spooning the cream off a designer special, consider the tradeoff, which is placing your personal data at risk. Also consider yourself warned by ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Wi-Fi
Americans spent more in January, but the increase came from a surgeA transient variation in the current and/or potential at a point in the circuit. in spending on heating bills during the harsh winter. Spending in areas such as autos and ...
Tags: Energy Costs, durable goods
The front-month Brent-WTI spread settled at a fresh five-month low of $6.48/barrel Friday, as steady drawdowns in crude stocks at the Cushing, Oklahoma, delivery hub have lent upside support to WTI, while Brent remains subdued. NYMEX ...
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LG will launch its first smartwatch in 2014, the head of its mobile unit said Monday, tapping into the nascent market for wearable devices seen as the mobile industry's new source of growth. The announcement from the South Korean ...
Tags: LG, Smartwatch, Samsung, Galaxy Gear
Rising Chinese smartphone maker Huawei launched Sunday a connected watch to rival Samsung's Gear 2, both unveiled on the eve of the world's biggest mobile fair in Barcelona, Spain. Huawei, already a major force in building mobile networks ...
Tags: Huawei, IHS, hotspot device, Android
A streetwear clothing store in Bergenfield, N.J., will sell you a camouflage hoodie for about 0.10862 bitcoin. It's received bitcoins for online orders, but so far no one has walked into the Jeffersons storefront and asked to pay with it. ...
Tags: transactions, market niche, form of payment
China reported robust exports for January, but assessing the nation’s true economic strength is no easy task. The Lunar New Year holidays that began at the end of January apparently created an export surgeA transient variation in the ...
Tags: Export Data, economic strength
Eastern Canada's Nova Scotia government is in favor of the proposed 1.1 million b/d Energy East crude oil pipeline terminating at a deep water port in the province, rather than in neighboring New Brunswick on the Atlantic coast, the ...
Tags: Nova Scotia, Oil Pipeline
Quantum mechanics offers the potential for creating communication technologies with an inherently higher security level than today's classical technologies. Using quantum digital signatures (QDS), for example, messages can be sent to ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
India is currently the fifth largest economy of the world and is developing at a fast pace. The maximum growth is reported from the construction sector and minimum growth is observed from the agriculture sector. The primary industrial ...