Unir sings while playing the morin khuur, or horse-head fiddle, during a performance. [Photo provided to China Daily] As his fingers run over the strings, we hear a thunderstorm and rain. When he whistles, you hear the wind. Horses run ...
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Science & Technology Department and 863 Program Electric Vehicle Major Technology Special Penal Group visited Shanghai Eorive Co., Ltd., the leading enterprise of new energy locomotive industry, and researched the development situation of ...
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On the afternoon of November 23, the 26th China-US Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade concluded successfully in Guangzhou. After the meeting, the Alternative Trade Representative of the Ministry of Commerce Zhang Xiangchen, together ...
Over 15 years after the establishment of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (the "FOCAC"), China-Africa economic and trade cooperation has become a highlight in international cooperation with Africa and a model of South-South ...
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Restart of nuclear reactors in Japan, growing renewable sources of energy and a slow economy are expected to push down the country's LNG consumption by 2020 by as much as 10.5% from 2014 levels, Eclipse Energy said this week. Japan's LNG ...
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Yorkshire-based bedding and mattress company Duvalay has appointed Jim Harrower its commercial manager, to help launch its new Hilary Devey collection. Jim joins with a wealth of experience in the bed industry. He was previously the MD of ...
U.S. farmers will harvest 13.9 billion bushels of corn, the second-largest crop ever, and 3.785 billion bushels of soybeans next year, USDA said in its first projections of the new crop. The new crops would follow three years of bumper ...
Set in a turn-of-the-century Tiffany & Co. ring and flanked by European-cut diamonds, this 7.84-carat oval-cut Kashmir sapphire sold for $1.35 million Tuesday at Bonhams New York. Click through this slideshow to see the top 5 lots from ...
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Coal exports from Australia's Gladstone port exceeded 7 million mt in November, as buyers from China, Japan and South Korea increased their offtake, a report from Gladstone port authority Friday said. Throughput at the port -- which ships ...
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Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has set its December thermal coal reference price, also known as the Harga Batubara Acuan, at $53.51/mt FOB, setting a fresh record low for the eighth consecutive month and the lowest ...
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Poland is planning to sell its hard coal stockpiles to Ukraine in order to raise cash to inject liquidity into the country's struggling state-owned coal miners, development minister Mateusz Morawiecki, said Monday. "There is a coal ...
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German day-ahead baseload power prices dropped below Eur30/MWh Thursday as wind power output was forecast to rise above 20 GW ahead of calmer weather conditions, which lifted contracts further out, a source said. Baseload power for ...
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Wind generation in November blew through a 31-month-old record share of total energy in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, a new report shows, and an expert said it contributed to ERCOT's low on-peak power prices that month. Wind ...
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The NYMEX January natural gas futures contract settled at $1.990/MMBtu Friday, down 2.5 cents. A prompt-month contract has not settled lower since reaching $1.975/MMBtu on April 24, 2012. The fall in the January contract comes as the ...
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Crude futures fell Friday after the International Energy Agency said global oil markets will remain oversupplied at least through 2016. NYMEX January crude settled $1.14 lower at $35.62/b. ICE January Brent settled down $1.80 at $37.93/b. ...