Nova Bus, a North American subsidiary of Volvo Group, has won a vehicle supply contract worth $32.6m from the Canada-based transit authority, the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). Under the contract, Nova Bus will supply 55 units of ...
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Clean Clothes Campaign has released a new report that uncovers the truth behind high-end fashion chains and the Eastern European and Turkish garment workers that make their clothes. "Stitched Up – Poverty wages for garment workers in ...
Raytheon Company of Waltham, MA, USA has been awarded a $6m study and demonstration contract by the US Office of Naval Research (ONR) to further develop an enterprise air surveillance radar (EASR) powered by gallium nitride (GaN) ...
Hundred Birds Costume is a well-told story in the folk life of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, most typical of the Baiyue ethnic minority group. The story reflected the happiness and sorrow of people in the Zhuang autonomous region, their ...
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Editor's Note: The Dragon Boat Festival falls on every May 5 of the Chinese lunar calendar. The festival, bearing the 2000-plus years'Chinese culture and undergoing the ablution of the long history, is still shining for its rich ...
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China looks back on nearly 5000 years of continued history tremendously rich on innovation and scientific achievements. For centuries the Chinese had been at the forefront of humanity's intellectual and technological progress and often far ...
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ABS secures Prestigious FLNG classification contract Tuesday, May 06, 2014 ABS, a leading provider of classification and technical services to the global offshore industry, has been awarded the classification contract from PETRONAS, ...
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Today,even low cost even low cost, entry-level thermal imaging cameras are surprisingly smart. They are ideal for quick and easy troubleshooting but they are not best suited to every task. Where clear visual evidence of thermal difference ...
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Toyota Corolla is now exported from Mississippi to the World. With this move, a total of nine US-Assembled Toyota Models are now exported to 32 countries. At a ceremony this afternoon with team members, elected officials and community and ...
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Improving Energy Efficiency and ROI for Forge Presses Creating 7 million lb of pressure to bear on heated metal billets is noisy and hot. For the customer, powerful hydraulic pressure comes with high electrical energy cost and wear and ...
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Avago Technologies Ltd (a designer and supplier of III-V-based analog components for communications, industrial and consumer applications) says that its latest series of MicroPOD and MiniPOD optical modules support 100 Gigabit Ethernet ...
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For years Beijing stressed that the country’s farmers must grow enough grain to feed the masses. Measures enacted in 1996 called on China to produce 95% of its own grain. That policy reflected concerns rooted deep in centuries of food ...
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Zeta Instruments Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which makes optical profiling and inspection systems for applications including high-brightness LEDs and solar cells) says that Jeff Donnelly has joined as its chief operating officer. Donnelly's ...
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Wacom is introducing a new language to support digitization of handwriting,notetaking and drawing.Its WILL,Wacom Ink Layer Language,will become a new standard that will allow users to work across OS,hardware platforms and cloud services to ...
UC San Francisco and Walgreens (NYSE: WAG) (Nasdaq: WAG) have opened a unique Walgreens store today on the UCSF campus that aims to improve medication safety, decrease health care costs and help patients use medicines more effectively by ...