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<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 12:38:09 -0600</pubDate>
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<title>China - Cotton imports seen lower as textile industry stagnates</title>
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<category>Cotton</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description>China will import a smaller quantity of cotton during the sector's fiscal year 2007, which ends in August, an industry official said on Wednesday.  


Cotton imports will fall because the s...</description>
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<title>PetroLogistics announces 1.2 billion pound propylene project</title>
<link>http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15343</link>
<category>Propylene</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description>PL Propylene LLC, a PetroLogistics company, announced today the commencement of a project to construct a 1.2 billion pound capacity propane dehydrogenation plant to produce propylene. The facility wil...</description>
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<title>India - Haldia Petro buys out L and T stake in JV for Rs 180 cr</title>
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<category>Naphtha</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description>Haldia Petrochemicals (HPL) has acquired Larsen and Toubro (L and T) 51% stake in HPL Cogeneration (HPLCL) at a consideration of Rs 180 crore.  


A 51:49 joint venture between LandT and ...</description>
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<title>India - Jute mills seek funds for modernisation</title>
<link>http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15341</link>
<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description>Although modernisation is essential for both survival and revival of the jute industry, mills find it an uphill job because of the high capital investments required. A 50,000 tons a year production un...</description>
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<title>Pakistan - Steady condition continues on cotton market</title>
<link>http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15340</link>
<category>Cotton</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description>With decreasing ready stocks of cotton from the current crop (2007-08) remaining unsold with the ginners and the forthcoming season (2008-09) still several months away before it can provide sizeable s...</description>
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<title>India - Trading in futures contracts for cotton resumes</title>
<link>http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15339</link>
<category>Cotton</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description>The cotton hedge trading has been resumed on Karachi Cotton Exchange after a gap of 32 years with the finalisation of a deal of 200 bales of the 2008-09 crop for August delivery. Market sources told B...</description>
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<title>India - Cotton wastes shortage hurts spinning mills in TN</title>
<link>http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15338</link>
<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description>Open end (OE) spinning mills in Tamil Nadu are in a tight spot as cotton wastes, their principal raw material, go scarcer forcing them to curtail production.
 

They are, like the ring spin...</description>
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<title>China cotton prices may keep stable in 08</title>
<link>http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15337</link>
<category>Cotton</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description>There is a little possibility that China cotton prices will fluctuate sharply because supply in the nation can meet demand basically in 2008, according to a forum held in the eastern Chinese city of ...</description>
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<title>India - Investment in textile industry increases to Rs.31,000 crore</title>
<link>http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15336</link>
<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description>Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development M.A. Fatmi has said that during the past three years investment in the country textile industry had increased from Rs.11,628 crore to Rs.31,000 ...</description>
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<title>China may resume favorable policy to spur textile export</title>
<link>http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15335</link>
<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description>The downturn of China textile industry has set off broad attention from the Chinese authorities. Now Chinese government is working out on some favorable policies for the industry.
 

China...</description>
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<title>India - Bengal seeks PPP ventures in textile sector</title>
<link>http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15334</link>
<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description>The West Bengal government is looking for joint ventures with private institutions to develop skilled manpower for the textile industry. The government is also asking technical institutions such as Be...</description>
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<title>Sinopec Zhenhai Refining and Chemical to expand capacity</title>
<link>http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15333</link>
<category>Ethylene</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description>Sinopec Zhenhai Refining and Chemical Company, one of the biggest refineries in Asia, decides to expand its annual refining capacity to 23 million tons by September 2009 from current 20 million tons....</description>
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<title>PetroChina said to form JV Refinery with Venezuelan firm</title>
<link>http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15332</link>
<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description>Chinese oil giant PetroChina Co., Ltd. would signed a framework agreement with a Venezuelan company on May 8, 2008 on jointly creating an oil refinery in South Chinas Guangdong Province, disclosed Sh...</description>
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<title>Pakistan - Cotton growing areas facing water shortage</title>
<link>http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15331</link>
<category>Cotton</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description>The cotton growing areas of Punjab and Sindh are facing acute water shortage for the sowing of cotton crop which is the backbone of countrys economy. Wapda officials told Business Recorder here on Tu...</description>
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<title>India - Ban on cotton export sought</title>
<link>http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15330</link>
<category>Cotton</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description>T.K. Rengarajan, MP, has written a letter to Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Kamal Nath seeking a ban on export of waste cotton. In his letter, Mr. Rengarajan said 25,000 families were dependa...</description>
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<title>India - South India Cotton Association seeks tech mission extension</title>
<link>http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15329</link>
<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600</pubDate>
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South India Cotton Association (SICA) has sought the extension of the technology mission on cotton (TMC), the Central Government-sponsored programme aimed at developing Indiaandapos;s raw cotton bas...</description>
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<title>India - Price controls to hit Bt cotton growth in Gujarat</title>
<link>http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15328</link>
<category>Cotton</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description>Price control on Bt cotton seed prices is likely to hit the cotton growing community in Gujarat.
 

While the state government is trying to ensure that the commodity is available in the mar...</description>
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<title>India - Karur textile units to down shutters today</title>
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<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600</pubDate>
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The textile manufacturers covering the entire value chain in the handloom export centre of Karur will down shutters on Wednesday to protest against surging yarn prices and export of raw cotton.
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<title>Vietnam: Garment and textile sector earns high profits</title>
<link>http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15326</link>
<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description>The countrys total export turnover for the garment and textile sector was recorded at $2.6 billion for the first four months of this year, an increase of 24.5 per cent against the same period last ye...</description>
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<title>China - Crude storage project started</title>
<link>http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15325</link>
<category>Crude Oil</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description>China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), the nations largest oil producer, said it has started a 680 million yuan crude oil storage project in Jinzhou, Liaoning province.
 

The projec...</description>
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