industry

Zombies not only appear in movies. They might also "bite" your cell phone due to a nasty finger tap. In the first week of September, about 1 million cell phones in China were found to have been affected by a new virus, one that spreads quickly by random and mass sending of text ...
Pu'an County Government signed an outline agreement with Guizhou Minsheng Industry Co., Ltd. on Nov. 23rd to construct 600kt/y coal-to-methanol project in Southwest Guizhou coal electrical base. According to Wei Juncheng, president of the company, investment in this project ...
China Eastern Airlines is resuming flights to the Nepali capital of Kathmandu from January 11. The airline will fly on Kunming- Kathmandu-Kunming route three times a week using Boeing 737-700 aircraft. Speaking at a press conference Monday, Zhao Dejian, station manager of the ...
SINGAPORE-Asian paraxylene (PX) prices are expected to remain buoyant on the back of continued buying interest from downstream purified terephthalic acid (PTA) makers, market sources said on Thursday. "There are still end-users' interest in securing cargoes for the January ...
A Chinese company is said to be interested in buying a stake in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc under its reorganization plan which is still awaiting regulatory approval. The unidentified company intends to buy part of the new company's shares and a United States law firm is arranging ...
The shareholders of China's Laiwu Steel have rejected a plan to merge with Jinan Iron and Steel, a joint statement issued by the two companies said Tuesday. The merger, estimated to be worth about 11.3 billion yuan ($1.71 billion), required the consent of two thirds of the ...
Argentina is adding new turbines to its wind farms in Patagonia as part of a government strategy to prepare for increased energy consumption in line with economic recovery in the coming years. A total of 43 new Danish turbines bought for the wind farms in Patagonia will help ...
China's scientific research and development (R&D) spending was 580.21 billion yuan (87.25 billion U.S. dollars) in 2009, fourth in the world after the United States, Japan and Germany, officials at the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) of China told Xinhua Wednesday. The ...
A German energy official has called for a "Schengen Agreement" on energy trading to boost competition in the European power and heating sector. Such a move would ensure a proper supervision and a level playing field for free energy trading in Europe, says Johannes Kindler, vice ...
The European Commission said on Tuesday it had launched an antitrust probe into allegations that Google had abused a dominant position in online search market. The investigation would be centered on whether Google lowered the ranking of unpaid search results of competing services...
TAM Airlines together with Airbus have conducted the first Jatropha-based biofuel flight in Latin America, using an Airbus A320. The biofuel, processed by UOP LLC, a Honeywell group, was a 50 percent blend of locally-sourced Brazilian Japtropha-based bio-kerosene and conventional ...
Domestic electronic-reader producers are refocusing their sights on the hot tablet PC market and its huge commercial potential this year, analyst said Tuesday. Some e-readers producers will be forced to withdraw from the market mainly because of serious price wars between rivals, ...
China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec Corp.)'s 600 wholly-owned gas stations in Beijing have recently put end to their preferential benefit promotion, which began in 2010, according to the Beijing Daily Tuesday. The high international oil price above $91 per barrel is ...
Google has offered as much as 6 billion U.S. dollars to acquire Groupon, the Chicago-based social buying site, U.S. media reported on Tuesday. A deal, in the range of 5 billion to 6 billion dollars, could be struck as soon as this week, The New York Times said in a report, citing ...
China Unicom, the nation's only mobile operator offering Apple Inc's iPhone, released new rules to limit the resale of iPhones, Beijing News reported Monday. Unicom said that customers who buy iPhones from the carrier should use the smart phone with its bundled subscriber ...
Smart electrical grids that synchronize supply and demand will be a crucial weapon in the fight against global climate change, U.S. power industry experts say. With global energy consumption expected to rise dramatically over the next 15 years, the European Union is among those ...
Tapping the Earth's ocean tides for affordable, renewable energy could ultimately meet 10 percent of America's electricity needs, advocates say. While widespread use may be years off, supporters say tides and other hydrokinetic systems, from ocean waves to free-flowing rivers, ...
Companies including Google and Microsoft have more time to bring their online mapping services in line with Chinese regulations after the country's top industry regulator has extended the license application deadline. In an e-mail reply to China Daily, the State Bureau of ...
Central China's Hunan Province began building the country's third National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) on Sunday, where the world's fastest supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A, will be installed. Designed to handle one quadrillion computing operations per second, the NSCC in Changsha ...
The rare earths are a group of 17 elements comprising Scandium, Yttrium, and the Lanthanides. The heavy rare earth elements, HREE. Light REE's are made up of the first seven elements of the lanthanide series - Lanthanum (La, atomic number 57), Cerium (Ce, atomic number 58), ...
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates confirmed on Wednesday that he is ...
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Policies of China's new leadership in the ...
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), the world's second-largest drug producer by ...
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary ...
China's farm product pricing plan shifts to market orientation
China's farm product pricing plan shifts to market orientation
The Number One Document also proposed a new pricing plan for China's ...
Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
SHANGHAI, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- China, the world's top manufacturer and ...
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
A Wal-Mart store is seen in Stratford, Connecticut, the United States. ...
Gaming Firms Find Going Tough
Gaming Firms Find Going Tough
Employees demonstrate Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications' Xperia Play ...
Boeing Wins Biggest Order of US$26b
Boeing Wins Biggest Order of US$26b
A formation of nine Royal Air Force Red Arrows Hawk aircraft fly ...
Yao's gift of sport for all
Yao's gift of sport for all
Chinese NBA player Yao Ming teaches a boy with special needs how to ...
Lucrative golf industry lures stiff competition
Lucrative golf industry lures stiff competition
Two models stand beside golf equipment and bags at a recent golf ...
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
History-making tennis legend Li Na notched the first-ever grand slam ...