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SINGAPORE, Jan. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- China's apparent oil demand* rose 7.7% year on year in December to 44.76 million metric tons (mt), or an average 10.58 million barrels per day (b/d), the highest on record, according to Platts analysis of recent Chinese government data showed. "Last month we saw strong growth in China's oil demand of 7.7%, which was higher than the 4.6% increase in December 2011. Part of this was due to a stronger economic performance, which boosted demand...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Fight against it as they may, the Chinese government has not able to keep the web out of their people’s hands. Despite tightening control over what is posted online and what is seen, new data from the East shows that the number of those accessing the Internet continues to grow at a substantial rate. According to the China Internet Network Information Center, the country saw 51 million more surfers added in 2012 over 2011,...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Though it might sound unexpected, the Chinese government has come under scrutiny this year as a result of some online missteps. As a communist country, China works to control what is published about its government and political figures. However, if we’ve learned anything during the last five years in America, it’s that news travels fast and unencumbered via Twitter. The same can be said of China’s own microblogging service,...
LEIYANG, China, Dec. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Chinese tea oil supplier Hunan Gintoten Camellia Technology & Development ("Gintoten" or "the company") filed a formal application to the State Council, the Land and Resources Bureau, Bureau of Oceanography of the People's Republic of China on 25 December, 2012, seeking Chinese government approval to lease Diaoyu Island and surrounding islets. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121225/CN34408) Gintoten said in the...
SHENZHEN, China, Dec. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- China BAK Battery, Inc. ("China BAK", the "Company", or "we") (Nasdaq: CBAK), a leading global manufacturer of lithium-based battery cells, today announced that the Company's Technical R&D Program in Key Materials, Battery and Battery Pack for use in Electric Vehicles ("EV") was selected into the National Support List for the New-Energy Vehicle Industry Innovation Program as issued by the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of...
TEL AVIV, Israel, December 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SDE [http://www.sde-energy.com ] builds and constructs sea [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aKRLEjQKctY ] wave power plants [http://mendocoastcurrent.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/more-on-israeli-company-building-wave-energy-plants-in-china ] , lately shipped a second sea wave power plant to China, according to an agreement of $0.8Mil. Recently a new agreement of $1.2Mil was signed under which SDE will...
SINGAPORE, Nov. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- China's apparent* oil demand rose 6.6% year over year in October to 41.28 million metric tons (mt), or an average 9.76 million barrels per day (b/d), the third highest on record, a just-released Platts analysis of recent Chinese government data showed. October apparent* demand was slightly lower than the record 9.8 million b/d in September and the 9.77 million b/d seen in February this year. "We continued to see strong growth in apparent...
MIAMI, Oct. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Commercial Service, a trade promotion arm of the U.S. Department of Commerce, in cooperation with the Civil Aviation Authority of China (CAAC), has invited Pan Am International Flight Academy, a global aviation training company headquartered in Miami, Florida, to participate in a joint Aviation Trade Mission next month in Beijing, China. The trade mission delegation including Pan Am and other select U.S. companies within the aviation...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Today, Google has announced they will be shuttering their music download service in China, just three years after they introduced it. The search giant puled themselves out of China and into Hong Kong two years ago after struggling with censorship issues from the Chinese government. Now, according to the announcement, Google will kill the music in China on October 9th. Google’s music service in China was the search giant’s...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online In a renewed effort to alleviate U.S. security concerns, Chinese network equipment maker Huawei Technologies Ltd. issued a report on Tuesday in which it pledged never to engage in espionage or cooperate with spies. The company also rejected allegations that it was linked to the Chinese government. The 24-page report, authored by John Suffolk, a former British government chief information officer who became Huawei’s global...
