Almost 70 per cent of Australians would pay more for their clothes if they knew overseas workers were paid a decent wage and that garment factories had safe working conditions, according to a new Oxfam Australia survey. The survey, which ...
Reportedly, Taiwan's basic metal and basic metal product export orders in May this year totaled US$2.3 billion, up 2.5% from the previous month and dropped by 5% year on year. Same index in April and March has shown a drop of 23.3% and 9% ...
Tags: Construction, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, taiwan, Metal
If you don't have an Internet-connected television or Blu-ray player but would still like access to the growing amount of content available online, a separate streaming media player is an easy, inexpensive solution. While Apple TV and Roku ...
Tags: WD TV Play, Apple TV, Streaming Media Player
The manufacturing industries have improved to a greater extent and this has helped to improve the economy of a country faster than the other units. There is a lot of capital investment required to establish the big industries and make the ...
Let’s face it. Christmas is the single biggest holiday event in the jewellery world. For US jewellery retailers, this highly commercialized holiday typically accounts for 30-50% of the yearly business. Now is the time to prepare ...
Tags: Christmas, Arts&Crafts
Academics say they have created a material that can make LEDs cheaper to manufacture by removing the need to use expensive rare earth element (REE) phosphors. The researchers, who work at the University of Washington have developed ...
Russia's Gazprom has no plans to link the price of gas to be supplied to China under a long term contract to US spot gas prices, the company said in a statement Wednesday, citing Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller. "[Price of] gas supplied to ...
Tags: China, Russian Gazprom, Gas
Just like drama, Quyi also pays much attention to the maneuver of "Hand, Eyes, Body and Step in performance. Hand, Eyes, Body and Step here refer to a performer's expressions and movements that accompany his singing and reciting in the ...
A U.S. researcher at IBM who invented the basic building block of the modern DRAM has been honored with a prestigious Japanese award and a $500,000 prize. IBM researcher Robert Dennard was awarded the prestigious Kyoto Prize, and ...
Tags: DRAM, IBM, Kyoto Prize
Pharmaceutical packaging requires high attention to detail due to the critical nature of the materials required to protect the active product throughout its shelf life. Types of packaging material and design can also be influenced by the ...
Tags: Pharmaceutical Packaging, Packaging, Packaging Machinery
Is your car watching your every move? Can the cable company track your DVR habits? Those two privacy issues are bubbling up in Congress, where lawmakers this week filed bipartisan legislation that would give car owners control over data ...
Tags: Black Box Recorder, Lawmaker, DVR Snooping
Technology has changed everything we know about the office. Now it is threatening to get rid of the office as we know it. A series of surveys undertaken by Intelligent Office, a virtual office space provider, show just how profound this ...
A lot of people believe dried fruit is “fattening” and loaded with sugar, but neither is true—if you buy the right kind. In fact, strategically using dried rather than fresh fruit is a smart way to meet your nutrient ...
Tags: Dried Fruit, Weight management
Samsung today gave us an early look at the first smart phone with a true optical zoom lens, the Galaxy S4 Zoom. Optical zoom lets you get closer to your subject without the degradation of photo and video quality you'd get using digital zoom ...
Tags: Samsung, Galaxy S4 Zoom, Optical Zoom, Smart Phone
This was already the fourth time Lewa had held the Green Technologies Day. Under the motto "Gas as an energy source ? bridge technology to the hydrogen age?", experts from industry and the sciences reported on current research and the use ...