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Toyota, rivals to hire thousands in post-quake pushTokyo (AFP) June 21, 2011 Toyota and other Japanese automakers on Tuesday said they planned to hire thousands of contract workers in Japan as they look to make up for lost production due to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Toyota alone said it planned to hire up to 4,000 contract workers at its Japan factories. "In terms of domestic output, the company expects production will start recovering from around October, making up the delay caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake," a Toyota statement said. "In order ... read more |
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  Build unified ASEAN in South China Sea: McCain Senator John McCain called Monday for the United States to expand military and political support to Southeast Asian nations to stand up against China in the increasingly volatile South China Sea. ... more | .. |
  Glimmers of green hope for Asian cities The air in most Asian cities is getting more polluted and the rivers filthier, but experts say there are many reasons to believe in a green vision for the region as urbanisation powers ahead. ... more | .. |
  Boeing 747-8 Freighter Arrives at Paris After Historic Biofuel Flight The Boeing 747-8 Freighter landed at Paris Le Bourget Airport at 5:35 p.m. local time after completing the first transatlantic flight of a large commercial airplane powered on all engines by a susta ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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  Graphene may gain an 'on-off switch,' adding semiconductor to long list of achievements A team of researchers has proposed a way to turn the material graphene into a semiconductor, enabling it to control the flow of electrons with a laser "on-off switch". Graphene is thinnest and ... more | .. |
  Solar Dawn will be Largest Plant of its Kind in the World The Australian Government has selected the AREVA Solar, CS Energy and Wind Prospect CWP consortium's "Solar Dawn" as the preferred solar thermal power project in Round 1 of the Australian Government ... more | .. |
 Langan Energy Solutions Completes Rooftop Solar Project for Parsippany Office Building Langan Energy Solutions (LES), based in Elmwood Park, N.J., recently completed a 50-kilowatt rooftop solar system for an office building owned by Entin Road Realty Associates in Parsippany, N.J. ... more | .. |
 Etrion Contracts Phoenix Solar to Build Solar Power Plant Etrion and Phoenix Solar have announced a new agreement to build a 2.6 MW solar power plant near Nettuno in the Lazio region of Italy. Etrion will own the power plant, and Phoenix Solar will design, ... more |
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 Estonia, Lithuania vow energy security Regional cooperation between the Baltic states on energy security and other issues is deepening, the presidents of Lithuania and Estonia say. ... more | .. |
 Benton County Fairgrounds Promotes Solar Energy with SunWize Systems Installation SunWize Systems has announced it has completed the installation of a roof-mounted solar project at the Benton County Fairgrounds in Corvallis, Oregon. It is the second largest solar installati ... more | .. |
  Ryanair steals spotlight, Airbus ups pressure on Boeing Low-cost pioneer Ryanair stole the limelight at the world's biggest air show on Tuesday with an unprecedented Chinese tie-up, while Airbus upped the pressure on rival Boeing with a slew of sales. ... more | .. |
 AstraZeneca Installs 7,300-Panel Solar Energy System on Wilmington Campus AstraZeneca has announced the installation of a 7,300-panel solar energy project that produces energy equivalent to about 10 percent of the campus' office building electricity use. The 1.7 meg ... more |
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  Italian police crack down on China money transfers Italian police on Tuesday seized 70 Chinese-owned businesses in the textile sector in and around Florence and assets worth 25 million euros in an anti-fraud crackdown. ... more | .. |
 Standard Solar Brings Solar Energy to Northern New Mexico Standard Solar has announced it is developing a 1.5 MW solar electric system in northern Taos County, New Mexico in cooperation with Taos-based Kit Carson Rural Electric Cooperative (KCEC). The proj ... more | .. |
 Encana rejects shale gas deal with PetroChina Canadian energy giant Encana said Tuesday it has ended talks with China's state-owned PetroChina on a joint venture to develop a major shale gas project. ... more | .. |
  Fukushima raises questions about new Finnish reactor More than 5,000 hard-hat workers swarm over a sprawling nuclear facility in western Finland to build OL3 - touted as the safest nuclear reactor in the world - a claim which has come under scrutiny following Japan's nuclear disaster. ... more |
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Russian space chief says agreed with NASA on ISS cooperation until 2028
SpaceX Dragon delivers Crew-11 to International Space Station
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 BP unveils liability deal with Weatherford BP on Monday announced it had struck a deal with oil services company Weatherford International, to settle potential claims between them linked to the Deepwater Horizon accident. ... more | .. |
 China defends Bashir visit as 'reasonable' China insisted Tuesday it was "quite reasonable" for it to host Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted for genocide and war crimes and is unwelcome in most of the world. ... more | .. |
  PSC Allows Installation of Largest Land-Based Wind Turbines in NY The New York State Public Service Commission (Commission) has voted to approve a modification to the plans of the Marble River Wind Farm in the Towns of Clinton and Ellenburg, Clinton County. The de ... more | .. |
 HALL Wines Installs ECOtality's Blink EV Charging Station HALL Wines has announced HALL St. Helena as the first vineyard and winery to install an ECOtality electric charging vehicle station. Beginning June 16, 2011 HALL St. Helena offers visitors the oppor ... more |
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 Iowa State hybrid lab combines technologies to make biorenewable fuels and products Laura Jarboe pointed to a collection of test tubes in her Iowa State University laboratory. Some of the tubes looked like they were holding very weak coffee. That meant microorganisms - in this case ... more | .. |
 New insights on an old material will enable design of better polymer batteries, water purification Designing new materials depends upon understanding the properties of today's materials. One such material, Nafion , is a polymer that efficiently conducts ions (a polymer electrolyte) and water thro ... more | .. |
  New compact microspectrometer design achieves high resolution and wide bandwidth A new microspectrometer architecture that uses compact disc-shaped resonators could address the challenges of integrated lab-on-chip sensing systems that now require a large off-chip spectrometer to ... more |
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Deloitte launches Silent Shield system to monitor satellite cyber threats
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 New biofuel sustainability assessment tool and GHG calculator released Various biofuels, first hailed as a way to a sustainable energy supply, have since fallen out of favor because of the overall negative impact they have on the environment, mainly due to the producti ... more | .. |
 Improving LED lighting University of Miami professor at the College of Engineering, Jizhou Song, has helped design an light-emitting diode (LED) light that uses an array of LEDs 100 times smaller than conventional LEDs. ... more | .. |
  Rare earth prices surge as China tightens grip Prices of rare earths have skyrocketed this year as China moves to consolidate the sector in order to tighten its grip over the highly coveted minerals used in high-tech products, analysts said Monday. ... more | .. |
 China's Hu inks deals on rare Ukraine visit Chinese President Hu Jintao on Monday made a rare visit to Ukraine, signing a strategic partnership declaration and $3.5 billion in deals to revive a relationship that had fallen into neglect. ... more |
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 Japan gadget charges cellphone over campfire A Japanese company has come up with a new way to charge your mobile phone after a natural disaster or in the great outdoors - by heating a pot of water over a campfire. ... more | .. |
 China prepares for summer power crisis China's top five power companies reported increased losses as they cope with rising coal costs and a cap on electricity prices, the China Electricity Council said, warning that the losses would make it more difficult to ensure adequate supplies of power during the summer. ... more | .. |
 Population growth spurs surge to Asia's cities Somewhere in the world - Asia would be a good bet - a pregnant woman is carrying a baby destined to be the planet's seven billionth human being. ... more |
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