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China Leads on The Road to Clean Energy
Apr 30, 2019The steel and coal industries in China face new capacity cuts in a further bid to cut pollution in the country. That's according to the National Development and Reform Commission, who have announced plans to suspend construction of large ...
Tags: steel, coal industries
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Oxford Instruments Boosting Asia-Pacific R&D Center at Taiwan's ITRI
Aug 15, 2017Oxford Instruments plc plans to increase personnel at its R&D base at Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), and to leverage ITRI's R&D capacities to strengthen their cooperative relationship in technology ...
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Shell Launches Quest Carbon Capture and Storage Project
Dec 9, 2016As part of its funding arrangements, Shell is publically sharing information on Quest's design and processes to further global adoption of CCS. Quest draws on techniques used by the energy industry for decades and integrates the components ...
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Nuclear Firm Confident Reactor Can Pass UK Test
Oct 10, 2016China General Nuclear Power Corp has said it is confident that the Chinese-made Hualong One reactor will pass Britain's strict approval process in five years. The technology, also known as HPR1000, will be submitted to the UK Office for ...
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China to Make up 25% of Foreign Delegations
Jun 12, 2016Chinese companies make up a quarter of the foreign delegations to take part in the International Festival for Business (IFB) held this year in the northwestern British port of Liverpool, organizers said Saturday. "Our target had been for ...
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British Astronaut Says He Has A Spectacular Life up in Space
Dec 28, 2015The first Briton on board the International Space Station, Tim Peake, has been giving his initial impressions of space during a news conference. He arrived on the space station just three days ago with two other astronauts, one from Russia ...
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Young Musicians to Remember 'Forgotten of The Forgotten'
Dec 4, 2015Their ages range from six to 17, and next week they will pay a special tribute to the thousands of their fellow Chinese countrymen who gave their lives during World War I. The award-winning Pagoda Chinese Youth Orchestra, based in ...
Tags: Pagoda orchestra, carol concert
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More Than 5000 British Children to Be Taught Mandarin
Oct 29, 2015More than 5,000 British students will be taught Mandarin in schools, after a 15 million US dollar funding boost announced Wednesday by the British government. Last year, only about 2 percent of state funded primary schools in Britain and ...
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Xi Hails Role of Confucius Institutes
Oct 27, 2015President Xi Jinping and Britain's Prince Andrew unveil a plaque as they attend the opening of the UCL Institute of Education Confucius Institute annual conference in London on Thursday. Alastair Grant / Associated Press Classrooms make ...
Tags: Confucius Institute, cultural exchanges, business, arts
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Cigarette Giant JTI Threatens Legal Action Against Irish Government Over Plain Packaging
Feb 26, 2015Cigarette giant Japan Tobacco International (JTI) has threatened to take legal action against the Irish government if it doesn't stop work over plain packaging legislation for cigarettes. JTI Ireland, one of the biggest producers of ...
Tags: Cigarette, Tobacco, Plain Packaging
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UK Retailers Have Welcomed a Historic and Landmark European Agreement
Dec 22, 2014UK retailers have welcomed a historic and landmark European agreement to cap the anti-competitive cost of processing debit and credit card payments (interchange fees). According to the BRC – whose members have long campaigned ...
Tags: credit card, Payment Systems, Furniture
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Britain's Economy Has Grown to Surpass The Peak It Reached in 2008
Aug 15, 2014LONDON (AP) — Britain’s economy has grown to surpass the peak it reached in 2008, before the global banking crisis caused a deep recession, official figures showed Friday. The Office for National Statistics said gross domestic ...
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The British Government Hopes to Deepen Cooperation with China in The Energy Sector
Jun 13, 2014The British government is "very much looking forward" to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's visit next week and hopes to deepen cooperation with China in the energy sector as well as on climate change, Britain's energy secretary said here on ...
Tags: energy sector, climate change
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The Global Economic Recovery Depends on Chinese Luxury Consumption
May 20, 2014Britain's observer newspaper published, analyze the global economic recovery "why depends on China's taste for luxury goods. Report points out that Chinese consumers taste, interest and attitude continues to change, but the west of export ...
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All Cigarette Production for The Australian Market Would Be Moved to Its Plant in KOR
Apr 8, 2014The tobacco giant said all cigarette production for the Australian market would be moved to its plant in South Korea. The company said stagnation in exports, decline in domestic demand, and Australia's regulation regarding cigarette ...
Tags: Packaging, Cigarette Industry
