Archive for September, 2007

Construction begins on Tibet’s biggest logistics center

Authorities in Tibet started building the region’s biggest logistics center on Friday in a bid to further exploit the potential of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway that opened a year ago and boost the region’s economic development.
The logistics center, covering 533 hectares, is located next to a railway station at an altitude of 4,500 meters in Nagqu [...]

New coal terminal at Newcastle gains final approval

Newcastle’s new coal terminal cleared its final hurdle Wednesday, with Peter Costello giving the project foreign investment approval.
 
The $922 million facility, which received planning approval from the NSW Labor Government in April, will begin loading coal in 2010 and will eventually increase the Port of Newcastle’s capacity from about 100 million tonnes of coal a [...]

China’s freeway to Australia’s Fine Food

Austrade, the Australian Government’s export development agency brought over 250 buyers from around the world to Fine Food Australia on 24 September-and the most interest has been from China, with over 70 buyers attending.
Austrade’s Beijing-based Country Manager, Peter Osborne said the China buyers were exposed to a wide range of Australian food and beverage products [...]

Nokia adding WiMax support to products next year

Nokia Corp. plans to add WiMax connectivity to its N-series Internet tablet next year, the company said Wednesday.
WiMax is a wide-area networking technology that offers faster download speeds than 3G (third-generation) mobile networks and has a wider range than Wi-Fi. Adding WiMax support to the Internet tablets will allow users to surf the Web or [...]

China, Russia agree to improve trade, investment

China and Russia agreed Friday to improve the trade structure, expand investment and technological cooperation in line with the principle of reciprocity.
Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi and her Russian counterpart Alexander Zhukov held a meeting in Hangzhou, capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province, to prepare for the regular meeting between the prime ministers due to [...]

Gasoline Imports Of China Jumps In August

From just 13.6 tons in July, China’s gasoline imports jumped to 45,000 tons in August, a 7,896-percent increase.
The sharp rise in gasoline imports was attributed to the government’s order in early August for state-owned refiners to ensure domestic gasoline supply.
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