6/30/2008 3:07:00 PM
Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) has recently wrapped up another round of its “Road to 2010 Forums”, bringing the informative road shows to woolgrowers in a total of five key wool producing areas across New South Wales. The forums allow industry to report back to woolgrowers, updating them on progr…
6/27/2008 2:21:00 PM
BEIJING, June 27 (Xinhua) -- China´s industrial firms reported 1.09 trillion yuan (158.6 billion U.S. dollars) in profits in the first five months of this year, up 20.9 percent from the same period last year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Friday. The growth rate was 4.4 pe…
6/27/2008 11:00:00 AM
At a recent ceremony at the Shenzhen production facility, Mr. Werner Nievergelt, Consul General of Switzerland and Mr. Sou Lam Fong, Chairman of Fong’s Industries Group officially “unveiled” the Xorella new XO-SELECT machine. Mr. Werner Nievergelt and Mr. Sou Lam Fongfrom left: Mr. Sou Lam Fong, M…
6/26/2008 10:57:00 AM
In May, Producers´ Price Index (PPI) for manufactured goods up by 8.2 percent from the same month last year; purchasing prices for raw material rose by 11.9 percent. PPI for means of production increased 9.2 percent over last May. Of the total, PPIs for raw materials industry and machining …
6/26/2008 10:55:00 AM
Both in May and through the first five months of the year, exports and imports of Chinese cotton fabric moved in different directions, reflecting the evolving state of the industry. Exported fabric climbed 7.8% in May from a year earlier to 530 million meters, pegging year-to-date shipments 11.8% hig…
6/26/2008 10:52:00 AM
Difficulties continue to impact the Chinese cotton textile industry. Facing higher energy, labor, and land costs eating into margins, many mills are curtailing production. As a result, trade in cotton yarns sank from year-ago levels for the tenth consecutive month, driven lower by steep declines in i…
6/25/2008 5:49:00 PM
China saw quicker growth in textile exports but slower rise in foreign sales of garments in the first five months of this year, sources with the General Administration of Customs said on Saturday. Between January and May, China exported 66.16 billion U.S. dollars worth of textiles and garments, a gro…
6/24/2008 1:25:00 PM
BEIJING, June 23 -- China´s central bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan said "stronger policies" may be in the pipeline to tackle inflation exacerbated by the government´s latest fuel-price increases. "Surely higher energy prices will send some pressure to the consumer pri…
6/23/2008 3:50:00 PM
Shanxi Province is located on the southwest edge of the North China Plain and is the smallest cotton producer in the region, with only 96,667 hectares planted in 2008/09. Corn is the dominant crop. The Shanxi Agriculture Department reports that 2,513,067 hectares have been planted to crops this seaso…
6/23/2008 10:58:00 AM
MACAO, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Soaring food prices pushed Macao´s Composite CPI (consumer price index) in May up 8.95 percent year-on-year to 123.35, according to figures released Friday by the city´s Statistics and Census Service (DSEC). The figures showed that the price indices of f…
