TOKYO (AP) — Japanese automakers Honda and Nissan may be revving up for a comeback after cash-for-clunkers incentives boosted sales of green cars last quarter, stemming damage from a sliding global auto market.
Honda Motor Co., Japan’s No. 2 automaker, bucked expectations of losses in the April-June period, posting a 7.5 billion yen ($79.8 million) [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Guangzhou’
ST Electronics wins Guangzhou MRT contract worth $11.7m
July 28th, 2009 |
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ST Electronics, the electronics unit of ST Engineering, today announced it has won its sixth Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) project in Guangzhou, China.
The Guangzhou-Foshan Line (GFL) contract worth RMB53.6 million ($11.7 million) requires the provision of Platform Screen Doors (PSD) for the GFL which will run 32.3km from Kuiqi Station in Foshan, to Lijiao station in Guangzhou, in Guangdong province.
It’s official: money eases both physical and emotional pain
July 27th, 2009 |
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Money can alleviate physical pain as well as ease the sting of social rejection, according to a new study.
Since money can affect pain, the researchers theorised that it may offer clues as to how the brain evolved to process social interactions.
Using six different experiments, lead author Xinyue Zhou from Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou and [...]
21st century’s longest eclipse
July 20th, 2009 |
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BANGKOK (AP) — Millions of people across Asia will witness the longest total solar eclipse that will happen this century, as vast swaths of India and China, the entire city of Shanghai and southern Japanese islands are plunged into darkness Wednesday for about five minutes.
Streams of amateur stargazers and scientists are traveling long distances to [...]