The Food and Agricultural Organziation (FAO) said Thursday that it will support six African island nations in their efforts to make their agriculture more resilient to climate shocks and boost economic development.
Electric carmaker Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA.O) has agreed to buy Germany's Grohmann Engineering GmbH, which develops automated manufacturing systems for batteries and fuel cells, as the California-based company seeks to expand its production more than sixfold by 2018.
Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Monday its system chips business has started mass production of semiconductors using 10 nanometer technology, adding it was the first company in the industry to do so.
Samsung Electronics has temporarily halted the production of its fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, some of which caught fire again even after replacement, Yonhap news agency reported Monday citing an official of Samsung's subcontractor.
China's crude oil output fell 9.9 percent year on year in August, the biggest monthly drop since 2003 as refineries slashed production amid sluggish global oil prices.
The world’s top two crude-oil producers pledged to cooperate to stabilise global markets, while failing to announce any specific measures to bolster prices.
Australia's economy grew 3.1 percent over the past year to March 2016, official statistics released on Wednesday revealed.
Wang Zhengqiang, 52, retired eight years early during a layoff at a steel mill in Tangshan, North China's Hebei province.
As wages rise, labor-intensive manufacturers in China are faced with a dilemma: Should they stay or should they go? Biel Crystal Manufactory (HK) Ltd., however, is happy it stayed put.
As wages rise, labor-intensive manufacturers in China are faced with a dilemma: Should they stay or should they go?
German industrial output dropped for the second consecutive month in March, but improved over the first quarter, official data showed on Tuesday.
Toyota Motor Corp. on Tuesday said that assembly lines at its plants in Aichi Prefecture, where the auto giant is headquartered, as well as those in Miyagi and Iwate prefectures had been suspending due to last week's powerful earthquakes in Japan's southwest tightening supply chains and causing a parts shortage.
Toyota Motor Corp, the world's biggest-selling automaker, said on Sunday it would suspend much of its production at plants across Japan this week after earthquakes in the country's south led to a shortage of parts, while some other manufacturers extended stoppages due to damage to factories.
Work from Asia has helped drive a boom in New Zealand's film and television industry last year, the government statistics agency said Wednesday.
New smartphone releases and the consequent demand for chips used in the phones led a rebound in South Korea's industrial production last month, a government report showed on Thursday.
Japan's industrial output tumbled a seasonally adjusted 6.2 percent in February as exports remained strained on falling demand, raising concerns that the world's third-largest economy may be heading into another recession, the government said on Wednesday.
Agriculture -- and not fossil fuels -- is the major cause of the rise in methane levels in the atmosphere over the last decade, according to a New Zealand-led study on climate change out Friday.
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