Ergonomic office furniture makers say they have not sat still - riding a booming business in China, where an increasing awareness by office workers of the need for healthy lifestyles has seen them move to alter their sedentary work schedules.
Economists, analysts and business leaders discuss the prospects for growth in the country during the next six months
After delivering frigates to naval forces of Algeria and Pakistan, and mega-container ships, liquefied natural gas or LNG carriers and vehicle carriers to shipowners in the United States, Norway, Denmark, Germany and Singapore, Chinese shipyards have recently made inroads into the high-end ship segment, to compete with their South Korean competitors.
State-owned China State Shipbuilding Corp is going beyond building navy vessels and making advanced scientific research ships. For long, it was the largest supplier of surface combatants to the Chinese Navy.
In the world's machine tools industry, China's State-owned Jier Machine Tool Group Co, based in Jinan, capital city of East China's Shandong province, has been blazing a trail in the segment of automobile stamping lines.
With Chinese shipyards' key customers of the global oil industries struggling to raise prices due to pressure from greener energy such as wind power, natural gas and green vehicles like those made by Tesla, the former are looking to stay afloat by building more offshore facilities and specialized vessels than low-end oil rigs.
Rachel Duan, president and CEO of GE China and senior vice-president of US-based General Electric Co, is known for her long-term efforts to make innovation a key part of China's industrial transformation.
NEW YORK - Floyd Mayweather Jr. tossed $1 bills in Conor McGregor's face. McGregor waved Jay-Z's new CD in Mayweather's direction and quoted a Biggie Smalls lyric as some sort of warning shot.
Wayne Rooney marked his first game back in an Everton jersey with a goal in a friendly against Kenya's Gor Mahia in Tanzania on Thursday.
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