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2016's Record Year for Renewable Energy Capacity
Apr 6, 2017Global renewable energy generation capacity increased by 161 gigawatts (GW) in 2016, making the strongest year ever for new capacity additions, according to data released today by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Renewable ...
Tags: renewable energy, green energy
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Liu Zhenya Met with UNIDO Director General Li Yong
Sep 28, 2016Austria, July 6 -- Mr. Liu Zhenya, Chairman of the Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO) and the China Electricity Council (CEC) met with Mr. Li Yong, Director General of the United Nations ...
Tags: Liu Zhenya, Li Yong, UNIDO
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The Inevitable Course for The Sustainable Development of Global Energy
Sep 28, 2016Since the Industrial Revolution, people ceaselessly exploited and used fossil energy on large scale, which led to many global difficulties such as resource constraints, environmental pollution, and climate change. Socio-economic development ...
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Australians’ Drinking Habits Distilled Into 100 Glasses: Roy Morgan Research
Apr 11, 2016In any given four-week period across 2015 Australian adults drank just over 426 million glasses of alcohol between them says a new study from Roy Morgan Research. This translates to an average of 23 glasses per person every four weeks. ...
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A Girl For All Time Launches Kickstarter Campaign For Your Modern Girl Range
Mar 18, 2016Founder Frances Cain is looking to raise £20,000 to launch the firm's new line. A Girl For All Time founder Frances Cain has taken to Kickstarter to raise funds for the firm's latest range, Your Modern Girl. Your Modern Girl is ...
Tags: Kickstarter, Frances cain, Your morden girl
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Regular Binge Drinkers 30 Per Cent More Likely To Commit Crimes, Monash Research
Mar 16, 2016New research analysing the alcohol consumption habits of more than 100,000 Australians over a decade has found that regular binge drinkers are up to 30 per cent more likely to commit drink-driving offences, vandalism or violence. ...
Tags: Regular drinkers, Drink-driving, NDSHS, Monash university
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Ceremony Held for China's 1 Mln USD Quake-Relief Donation to Afghanistan
Dec 17, 2015A signing ceremony was held here Wednesday for China's donation of 1 million U.S. dollars in cash for quake relief in Afghanistan. A 7.5-magnitude devastating earthquake struck northeastern Afghanistan in late October this year, leaving ...
Tags: quake relief, assistance
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CPEC to Be a Milestone in Regional Development
Dec 16, 2015ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on Thursday said Pakistani and Chinese political leadership were determined to further consolidate the all-weather and time-tested Pak-China friendship. The speaker said that CPEC ...
Tags: CPEC, socio-economic development, China-Pak Friendship
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Algerian PM Laments 'brutality' of Oil Price Collapse on Economy
Nov 24, 2015The halving of Algeria's foreign revenues in just a few months has had a brutal impact on the country's economy, Prime Minister Abelmalek Sellal said Sunday, describing the current situation as "difficult." In an interview with state news ...
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The Climate Group Urges Governments to Swap City Streetlights to LEDs by 2025
Oct 14, 2015Today, The Climate Group, which is hosting its annual Climate Week NYC, called on every single city and utility around the world to schedule the switch of their street lighting to LED by 2025 and launched its new major global campaign LED = ...
Tags: government policy, LED streetlight upgrade, The Climate Group
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US Will Continue to Help Bangladesh RMG Sector
Aug 28, 2015US Ambassador to Bangladesh Mercia Bernicat has that Washington is committed to helping Bangladesh's readymade garment (RMG) sector, according to media reports in that country. Bernicat's comments came during a courtesy call on Prime ...
Tags: readymade garment, garment
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Bangladesh Would Lose Its Competitive Edge in The American Market
Jun 19, 2015Bangladesh has expressed concern over the US trade bill concerning the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) apprehending that a less developed country (LDC) like Bangladesh would lose its competitive edge in the American market due to ...
Tags: US trade bill, American market, Apparel
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Coconut Water Global Continues to Develop
Feb 5, 2015While the UK's coconut water is thriving, new research has shown that there are further markets that could expand in global coconut water market, according to market research organisation Datamonitor. Findings showed that although UK ...
Tags: UK consumption, coconut water
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A New Polypropylene Plant Will Come up at Indianoil's Paradip Refinery Project Complex
Nov 18, 2014A new polypropylene plant will come up at IndianOil’s Paradip Refinery Project complex at Paradip in India’s eastern coastal state of Odisha. Foundation for the Rs 3150 crore polypropylene plant was laid by Minister of State ...
Tags: polypropylene plant, catalyst, Textile
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East Africa Is Undergoing a Major Transformation on The Energy Market
Nov 11, 2014East Africa is undergoing a major transformation to become a new world-class player on the energy market. By 2025, east Africa is expected to experience an incremental production growth of nearly one million barrels per day (b/d), led by ...
Tags: energy market, Hydrocarbon