The Hong Kong Monetary Authority raised its base rate from 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent on Thursday, following the U.S. Federal Reserve's lead overnight and raising concerns of capital outflows from the region. The Hong Kong dollar's peg ...
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Over 50 World Trade Organization (WTO) members have reached agreement on phasing out tariffs on imports of 201 information technology products. The deal was announced at a WTO ministerial conference in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. The ...
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Chinese IT companies are acting to defend their country against cyber attack risks, which are increasingly a threat to national security. China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC) signed a memorandum with Microsoft on Thursday ...
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The world-renowned journal Nature Thursday released its annual list of ten people who mattered in science in 2015, which includes one Chinese scientist whose work in human embryo gene editing has caused repeated debate in the academic ...
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Bear Grylls, British explorer.[Photo provided to China Daily] British explorer Bear Grylls' Chinese mainland TV debut has garnered attention from major European buyers, making it the first Chinese outdoors reality show to be sold ...
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Changes to the UK renewable energy subsidies, including programs such as Feed-in Tariff scheme and Renewable Obligation, will contribute a total reduction of GBP500 million-GBP600 million ($746 million-$895 million) from the Levy Control ...
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France's oil giant Total and international trading firms Trafigura and Vitol were among 21 companies handed crude oil term lifting contracts for 2016 by state oil firm Nigerian National Petroleum Corp, NNPC said Thursday. "NNPC issued ...
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Officers from a border check station’s legal aid service department talk to sailors on board an Italian vessel about China’s entry and exit laws. [Photo: Xinhua] The increasing number of lawsuits lodged by foreigners has ...
Gooee, the original ‘Full-Stack’, smart lighting ecosystem provider that connects OEMs to the Internet of Things, has developed, out of Silicon Valley, a multi-protocol enterprise IoT gateway that connects lighting and sensing ...
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China Southern Airlines Wednesday became the first airline to operate a year-round direct link between the Chinese mainland and New Zealand's South Island. The new three-times-a-week service officially opened when a Boeing 787 Dreamliner ...
Call it a tale of two sectors -- China's slipping manufacturing and flourishing service sector have defined the country's economy. The Chinese economy is undergoing heavy restructuring as it slowed to a six-year low of 6.9 percent in the ...
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Any enterprise in any doubt about the Internet's promotional power need only look at Taiwanese beverage firm EjiA Biotechnology. The company, among 10 in Taiwan that won awards from Alibaba for their performance in e-commerce on Tuesday, ...
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Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang met Wednesday with Petteri Taalas, the new secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The two agreed to deepen meteorological cooperation. Taalas is the director general of the ...
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China's culture and creative industries have strong growth potential as the country improves its intellectual property protections, said Pony Ma, co-founder and chief executive of Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings. "We believe ...
An executive meeting of the State Council, China's cabinet, on Wednesday passed a draft map of administrative divisions demarcating the maritime and land zones of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR). According to the draft, an ...
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