Praxair, Inc. has announced that its Praxair Surface Technologies coating service center in Changzhou, China, recently received Nadcap (National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program) accreditation for coatings. Nadcap ...
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The 15th Meet in Beijing Arts Festival is about to hit the capital. From April 23 to May 30, the large-scale international event will see 42 art troupes and 104 bands from 25 countries and regions perform more than 100 indoor shows and 50 ...
Financial service companies expect the pilot free trade zone in Guangdong to play a key role in fostering innovation and boost business with its close proximity to Hong Kong and Macao. The Guangdong zone, to be unveiled on Tuesday, is ...
The revenue of China's logistics sector rose 6.9 percent year on year in 2014, driven by the online retail sales boom, new data showed on Friday. The total revenue of the sector topped 7.1 trillion yuan ($1.16 trillion) last year, ...
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The 2015-2016 China-Canada Year of People-to-People and Cultural Exchanges has been launched at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver,Canada on April 13, 2015. The opening ...
The 11th annual China (Shenzhen) International Culture Industries Fair (ICIF) will be held in Shenzhen of South China's Guangdong province during May 14-18, 2015. The cultural fair this year will especially set up the Silk Road Hall ...
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Iran will unveil the ethylene plant in Assaluyeh by September, according to Marzieh Shahedaei, director of the National Petrochemical Industries Company (NPC), say media reports. Shahedaei said the second phase of the complex would ...
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In celebration of National Scrabble Day, wordsmiths and boardgamers set the new record of 30 games played in 24 hours. A new world record for the most consecutive games of Scrabble played in 24 hours has been set. The ...
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AkzoNobel’s Decorative Paints business is helping to recreate one of the Seven Wonders of the Medieval World – the Porcelain Tower of Nanjing in China. Built during the Ming Dynasty, the original pagoda was mostly destroyed ...
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Sweden-based packaging company ifoodbag has completed tests on its new carrier bags that are capable of keeping food items frozen for up to 24 hours. The water-resistant carrier bags, trials of which began last year, have been produced ...
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The University of California, Davis researchers have received $5m in grants from US Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture to carry out three new research projects. This financial support is part of USDA's ...
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China's economic growth slowed to 7 percent in the first quarter of 2015, down from 7.3 percent in the fourth quarter, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Wednesday. The latest figure was better than the forecasts by ...
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Despite concerns over lethargic industrial output and increasing downward pressure in the first quarter (Q1) of 2015, growth in China's key emergent sectors fed positive sentiment. Industrial output in China grew 6.4 percent year on year ...
China's fixed asset investment rose 13.5 percent from a year earlier to 7.75 trillion yuan (1.26 trillion U.S. dollars) in the first quarter of 2015, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday. The pace of increase slowed further ...
China's consumer spending posted a double-digit growth in the first quarter of 2015, despite mounting pressures the country is facing. China's retail sales rose 10.6 percent year on year in the first three months to 7.07 trillion yuan ...