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Samsung eyes $3bn Vietnam plant
2014-11-10 15:30:07| Electronics - Topix.net
Samsung Electronics Co is close to receiving a license to build a second smartphone factory and investing as much as $3 billion near Hanoi as the company increasingly turns to Vietnam as a manufacturing hub. The project will be approved as early as tomorrow and would bring Samsung's total investment in Thai Nguyen province to $6.4 billion, Duong Ngoc Long, chairman of the local People's Committee, said by phone today.
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Ahead global talks, all eyes on U.S. contribution climate fund
2014-11-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Next month's climate talks in Peru are a pivotal point in the push for global action on climate change. But it's a far less publicized gathering in Berlin that holds the key to whether the Lima negotiations succeed--and whether a useful climate treaty might be possible in the end. That's because the Berlin meeting, set for Nov. 20, is the first formal pledging conference for the Green Climate Fund. The fund's job is to collect hundreds of billions of dollars promised to developing countries to...
India Eyes $100 Billion Investment In Renewable Energy
2014-11-10 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Clean Technica: The new Indian government is taking serious initiatives to boost the power sector, which is in dire need of financial and structural reforms. A large number of these reforms will be implemented in the renewable energy sector. India`s minister for coal, power, and renewable energy last week announced that his government would push for an unprecedented $100 billion investment in the renewable energy sector over the next few years. With this plan, he also announced seemingly impossible solar energy...
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Japan's SMBC eyes 80 Boeing planes in up to $8.7bn deal
2014-11-10 07:03:39| Grocery - Topix.net
TOKYO: Japanese aircraft leasing giant SMBC Aviation Capital plans to buy 80 Boeing jets in a deal worth as much as $8.7 billion, a report said Monday. Japan's leading Nikkei business daily said the firm, which already has a stable of more than 370 planes, was pursuing the deal on the back of a strong growth in the budget carrier sector.
Showdown looms as California eyes pesticides
2014-11-08 20:15:13| Agriculture - Topix.net
With organic food growers reporting double-digit growth in US sales each year, producers are challenging a proposed California pest-management program they say enshrines a pesticide-heavy approach for decades to come, including compulsory spraying of organic crops at the state's discretion. Chief among the complaints of organic growers: The California Department of Food and Agriculture's pest-management plan says compulsory state pesticide spraying of organic crops would do no economic harm to organic producers, on the grounds that the growers could sell sprayed crops as non-organic instead.
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