A rice field in Heilongjiang province. [Photo/Xinhua] The press conference for the grand cultural feature series, The Road of Rice, was held in Beijing on Dec 1. Two episodes of the documentary are expected to be finished before the 2016 ...
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The gold industry is not doing enough to combat debt and rising losses and not investing enough in exploration, Randgold CEO Mark Bristow said Tuesday. "A number of major companies in the industry today are simply not viable," Bristow ...
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LyondellBasell subsidiary Equistar Chemicals has ended a force majeure declaration on polypropylene produced by its Bayport Polymers facility in Pasadena, Texas, the company said in a letter to its customers Tuesday. The force majeure was ...
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The UN global climate negotiations in Paris starting Monday are likely to drive further investment in renewable energy, prompt a switch to electrification in heating and transport and further curb coal-fired power, Swiss bank UBS said in a ...
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Iran unveiled its hotly anticipated new petroleum contracts to dozens of international oil companies in Tehran Saturday, and the first set of new tenders could be released by late January, a senior Iranian oil official said. The two-day ...
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Crude oil is flowing through the Kurdish-controlled Iraq-Turkey pipeline at 650,000-700,000 b/d and the line's pumping capacity will be lifted to 1 million b/d by 2016, the Kurdistan Regional Government's natural resources minister said ...
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An Estonian start-up Velmenni in Tallinn is planning to launch a Li-Fi LED bulbs within three to four years, reported BBC. The company’s Li-Fi prototype bulb tested is capable of delivering Internet data transmission speed of up to ...
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The Swedish company Bergkvarabuss is celebrating its 40th anniversary with the acquisition of four new Setra buses. Gran Mellstrm, owner of Sweden's largest private bus company, is adding one S 515 HDH and two S 431 DT models to his fleet. ...
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The Japanese government intends to phase out the country’s incandescent light bulbs and fluorescent tubes by 2020, and convert all lights to LEDs, reported Asahi Shinbun. The policy was formulated ahead of the 21st Conference of the ...
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The Promotion Conference of FAW Jiefang J6P 11L Tractor with big horse power was held grandly in Lianyungang on November, 11th, 2015. Over 200 truck users, the leaders of Jiefang Corporation, the representatives of Business Representative ...
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Performances of Peking Opera, which originated in the mid-19th century, are still popular among Chinese audiences. [Photo provided to China Daily] Early last year, when Shan Jixiang, director of the Palace Museum, suggested establishing a ...
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Yoko Ono poses with her work, To See the Sky, at her solo show in Beijing. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] The 82-year-old conceptual artist and singer Yoko Ono was in Beijing late last week for her exhibition Golden Ladders, which is ...
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St. Martin Tower marks a huge step forward in the development of the Frankfurt office scene, both in terms of the architecture and the lighting solution. This is where LED luminaires from Zumtobel systematically provide coordinated light at ...
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According to the information of the central government’s website on November 2, a TV and Telephone National Conference on Promoting the Domestic Trade Circulation Modernization was held in Beijing on November 2. The member of the ...
On November 2, the State Council held the TV and Telephone National Conference on Promoting the Domestic Trade Circulation Modernization in Beijing. It arranged the work of implementing the Opinions on Promoting the Domestic Trade ...