TIANJIN, May 27 (Xinhua) -- China's first state-level animation production base opened Friday in northern Tianjin Municipality, with a total investment of 4.5 billion yuan (690 million U.S. dollars). More than 180 firms have signed up for animation p...
U.S. President Barack Obama is announcing a new initiative to increase domestic oil production, while moving toward lowering the country's dependence on imported oil. In his weekly address Saturday, Obama said his administration plans to extend drill...
Higher Production Costs Shift Chinese Manufacturing For decades, China's factories have supplied the world with cheap goods - from denim jeans to desktop computers. But export prices are expected to go up as Chinese manufacturers are battered by high...
研究称少吃肉既健康又环保 Cutting meat production and consumption by 30 percent would help to reduce carbon emissions and improve health in the most meat－loving nations，scientists said on Wednesday。 Using prediction models， British...
Mexico has announced the allocation of more than 170 new sites for oil and gas development in an area in the country's northeast region. This comes at a time when production at the country's main field is falling dramatically, leading some analysts...
By Chris Simkins Washington 12 May 2008 U.S. officials say Burma's government has agreed to allow a single U.S. military aircraft carrying relief supplies to land in the country on Monday. Also, the UN's World Food Program says it will resume aid fli...
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 22 April 2008 OPEC Secretary General Abdalla Salem el-Badri says the cartel plans to boost its oil production targets by five million barrels a day by 2012. He was speaking on the final day of the International Energy Foru...
By Brian Wagner Miami 30 March 2007 President Bush has set ambitious goals to reduce the country's dependence on oil, and increase the use of alternative fuels like ethanol. VOA's Brian Wagner reports from Miami that experts are now at work to ensure...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 14 December 2006 OPEC oil ministers meeting in Nigeria have agreed to cut the organization's overall production by half a million barrels a day in February, but turned down calls for more immediate cuts. Gilbert da Costa re...
By Marlene Smith Vienna 31 January 2006 OPEC's President Edmund Maduabebe Daukoru from Nigeria arrives for final press conference after a meeting of ministers of OPEC, in Vienna, 31 January 2006 The O...
