The water-releasing ceremony on the Qingming Festival is a folk custom in Dujiangyan City where the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, a UNESCO world cultural heritage site, is located. On Qingming Festival (one of the 24 Chinese solar terms) ...
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Following up on the huge success at the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition held in June 2012, Tridonic presents its new LED products at the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair 2012 (Autumn Edition). The LED portfolio enables ...
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The international conference"Innovation for textile resource efficiency–energy,water&materials"took place on 22 November in Brussels.It brought together experts from industry,the research and technology sector and EU policy makers.The ...
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Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association's(BGMEA)University of Fashion&Technology(BUFT)and United Nations Industrial Development Organization(UNIDO)-Better Work in Textiles and Garments(BWTG)jointly organized a ...
Computerworld-A federal judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of a provision in a just-enacted California state law that requires all registered sex-offenders to immediately turn over the all of their Internet identifiers and the names ...
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Optim has introduced a new mobile Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES) system for ENT and speech pathology clinicians. The system, which allows clinicians to set-up portable or office based FEES programs within the ...
On November 11, the fourth China (Wuxi) International New Energy Forum &Exhibition was opening in Wuxi. The CEO of the Canadian Solar Inc Qu Xiaohua addressed a speech, from the 2001 to the 2011; The new energy industry grew in a fast ...
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Russia has introduced a law ostensibly aimed at sites containing images of child sexual abuse and other illegal material, but it has raised fears of censorship. In July, both houses of Russia's parliament voted in favour of the law that ...
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Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou has said that entrepreneurs from his country have invested over E5.5 billion in Swaziland, which includes setting up of 22 Taiwanese firms comprising mainly of textile and garment factories. In his welcome ...
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Computerworld-Intel researchers are working on a 48-core processor for smartphones and tablets,but it could be five to 10 years before it hits the market. "If we're going to have this technology in five to 10 years,we could finally do ...
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IDG News Service-Softbank's planned US$20 billion investment in Sprint validates the way the U.S.government handled last year's proposed merger of T-Mobile USA and AT&T,Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said Thursday. The proposed 2011 deal,which ...
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After the European Commission on Wednesday formally objected to Microsoft regarding the company's failure to fulfill its commitment to offer Windows users a free choice of browser in settlement of an earlier antitrust case, Microsoft said ...
Since its inception in 1954 as an autonomous, non-profit export promotion body, The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council - Texprocil - has become the international face of Indian cotton textiles successfully facilitating exports around ...
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Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs will give the opening keynote at the giant Consumer Electronics Show in January, a logical choice for an event whose focus is increasingly mobile, but one that might not garner the attention of a Bill Gates or Steve ...
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The UK's Draft Data Communications Bill–aimed at making it easier for authorities to spy on electronic communications–will be useless and quite dangerous if enacted,says Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. "It will force many ...
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