More trouble for Pakistan's beleaguered textile industry. The Institute for Policy Reforms (IPR) in a report outlining structural factors that have hurt the industry, has said that the textile industry has made inadequate investment in ...
The diamond trade remains under pressure, and further contraction of the market is expected this year. Apart from being squeezed by high rough costs and declining polished prices, dealers lament there are too many players chasing the same ...
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PC vendors, in order to reflect continual hikes in component costs, including display panels, DRAM, SSDs, Li batteries, plan to raise retail prices when new models equipped with revised Kaby Lake processors are launched in the third quarter ...
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Scottish Power is trialling 5,000 smart electricity meters in homes as part of a test that will simulate the national smart meter roll-out by covering both heavily populated and rural areas. The 18-month trial will see smart meters ...
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Mainly on strong demands from service sectors, Japan's core machinery orders have continuously surged, and hit a 10-year zenith in November, 2017, showing that the Japanese government's efforts on encouraging local enterprises to invest in ...
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Taiwan's Machinery Industry to See Stable Growth in Coming YearsTaiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) reported that last year the overall investments by the domestic machinery industry in the development of smart machine equipment, ...
Water shortages have become a major issue on a global scale. According to The Water Project, 783 million people lack access to clean, safe water. To put that number in perspective: one in nine people worldwide lack sufficient access to a ...
Hosting exhibitors from Germany, France, Italy, Korea, Taiwan, China, Iran and etc., the 12th Iran Auto Parts 2017, held on Nov. 13th through 16th, again serves as the largest and most influential auto parts trade fair in the Middle Eastern ...
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As demand for LED end devices has resumed growth amid shortages of LED chip supply, China's LED makers have recently begun expanding their capacities and local governments are also planning new subsidy and investment programs to assist the ...
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While not quite as rare as rocking hose poop, snagging a Nintendo Switch is currently challenging to say the least. According to the Wall Street Journal’s Tokyo based tech correspondent Takashi Mochizuki, the competition for ...
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Russian meat and feed producer Cherkizovo has agreed to acquire domestic grain producer Napko for around RUB5bn ($88m). Cherkizovo will also assume the net debt of the grain producer which stood at RUB751m ($13m) as of 31 March 2017. ...
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The Nintendo Switch has been a huge success, but its first month on sale hasn’t exactly been free from troubles. Despite outselling the likes of the PS4 and Xbox One in certain markets, the hybrid console’s first weeks on sale ...
Compal Electronics expects to ship 40 million notebooks and desktops in 2017, growing 10% on year, company president Ray Chen said at a March 28 investors conference. PC shipments in first-quarter 2017 will decrease 15% sequentially and ...
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Worldwide notebook shipments (not including 2-in-1 devices) surpassed 40 million units in the fourth quarter of 2016, dropping only 1.2% on year. Shipments from Taiwan-based ODMs even achieved on-year shipment growth in the quarter thanks ...
Worldwide shipments of traditional PCs (desktop, notebook, and workstation) totaled 70.2 million units in the fourth quarter of 2016, posting an on-year decline of 1.5%, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device ...