With Europe's largest economy in robust health and unemployment at record lows, the country's biggest union is demanding an 8 percent pay rise over 27 months for 3.9 million workers in the metals and engineering sector. The union has also asked for workers to be given the right to reduce their weekly hours to 28 from 35 to care for children, elderly or sick relatives, and to be able to return to full time after two years.
With a potential consumer base of 1.4 billion and a middle-income population of some 400 million, the China market is among the most desired destinations for foreign goods and services.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told the press on Friday that the territorial caliphate of IS had been eliminated in Syria, saying that the Pentagon confirmed this information. However, Russian media Sputnik reported on Friday, citing a Russian Foreign Ministry source, that Washington's statements about the complete liberation of Syria from IS were not convincing.
With China announcing a plan to eventually end the production and sale of vehicles powered entirely by fossil fuels, domestic and foreign-owned automakers are expected to be even more aggressive in developing electric and alternative vehicles for the world's largest car market.
Wind Information Co Ltd data showed that the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index on Friday fell 4.4 percent compared with last Friday and the ChiNext startup index tumbled 5.6 percent.
Why some open-source companies are considering a more closed approachElasticsearch was first released as an open-source project in 2009, when startups on a budget were the primary customers for cloud computing. Elastic launched in 2012 to maintain that project and build commercial services around it, and the company recorded million in quarterly revenue during its last earnings release after going public last year. Its market capitalization was .38 billion during Thursday morning trading.
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With an investment of 150 million yuan ( million), the project is BASF's largest ever investment in emollients production in Asia Pacific. The company has also set up its Innovation Campus Asia Pacific in Shanghai.
Who will be leading the two companies going forward?
With each organization contributing an exhibit, the iron being an example, the exhibition seeks to offer revealing and often evocative glimpses into a history whose depiction is at its best "generic and fuzzy", as Herb Tam, the exhibition curator, puts it.
With a combined 800 million monthly active users, TME runs four leading mobile music apps in China: QQ Music, Kugou Music, Kuwo Music and mobile karaoke app WeSing.