Tsinghua Unigroup of mainland China announced on Dec. 11 to acquire a 24.9 percent holding in Siliconware Precision Industries Co., Ltd. (SPIL) and a 25 percent stake in ChipMOS Technologies (Bermuda) Ltd. for total cost of NT$68.8 billion ...
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New Zealand-based dairy company Fonterra Co-operative Group is selling its Australian yogurt and dairy dessert business to Parmalat Australia. In this regard, both companies entered into negotiations which resulted in signingof the ...
If you miss the days of forcefully thwacking cartridges into video game consoles, then 2016 might be the year for you. Coleco, the company behind the 1982 ColecoVision, one of the first home gaming consoles, is planning to unleash a new ...
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UK-based grocery and general merchandise chain Tesco is considering implementing sugar reduction targets to its own-label suppliers in the new food and drink categories. Tesco group quality director Tim Smith has declared the company's ...
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The makers of Jolly Pumpkin and North Peak have partnered with Seoul-based brewery, Playground. The craft beer industry in South Korea is just awakening and Playground Brewery is looking to bring variety and change to a country used to ...
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HTC co-founder Cher Wang has claimed the long-awaited HTC Vive virtual reality headset will debut some previously unseen innovations at CES 2016 next month. Speaking at the Vive Unbound developers forum in Beijing, Wang claimed the new ...
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The Chinese government Tuesday refrained from adjusting retail oil product prices in line with global crude oil fluctuations for the first time in nearly three years, sending a strong signal to the market that it believes prices may have ...
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China’s National Development and Reform Commission and National Energy Administration have passed and announced the revised Feed-in Tariff (FiT) rates for solar and wind energy for 2016. The rates for solar projects in all three ...
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Town council members from Berlin located in Connecticut, U.S. has approved a US $ 1.48 million contract to swap 2,538 streetlights with LEDs , reported Hartford Courant. The payback period of the lighting project is expected to take less ...
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A file photo of the headquarters of China Vanke in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province. [Photo: ifeng.com] China's biggest residential developer China Vanke is worrying that its shareholders are buying too much stake. Baoneng Group, a ...
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (R) and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev meet the press after the 20th China-Russia Prime Ministers' Regular Meeting in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 17, 2015. [Photo: Xinhua] China and Russia signed ...
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China's iron ore importers need to keep a close eye on the country's steel mills as they mull output cuts and shutdowns amid a year-end credit crunch, the China Iron and Steel Association said Thursday. Prices of iron ore derivatives ...
The price of Australian alumina continued to drift sideways Thursday, leaving Platts daily assessment unchanged at $200/mt FOB, despite a slight slippage of Yuan 15/mt ($2.30) in Chinese domestic prices in Shanxi province. The Australian ...
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Investment bank Goldman Sachs late Wednesday lowered its iron ore price forecast for 2017 by $5/dmt to $35/dmt CFR China after a faster-than-expected softening in seaborne prices. "Iron ore prices have reached our $40/dmt forecast one ...
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The US vinyl acetate monomer market is seeing a tightening of supply that will likely push pricing higher through the first quarter of 2016 despite falling feedstock prices and a weaker energy sector, sources said. US VAM increased $20/mt ...