As an example Vestas and DONG Energy last month announced a cooperative agreement to test an 8 MW turbine in Denmark.

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Siemens signed an agreement with DONG Energy on Thursday to design and manufacture the 300 turbines, which would have a total capacity of 1, 800 megawatts, the engineering company said.

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"Exports improved even though the yen was depreciating, suggesting that there hasn't been any major impact on growth yet, " said Kong Dong-Pak, an analyst at Hanwha Securities.

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The Dong Xuan Center is an Asian market on an industrial scale, housed in a series of vast warehouses in the working class neighbourhood of Lichtenberg.

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Folz says that he sees "perhaps better immediate opportunities" in Latin America (Argentina and Brazil in particular), Eastern Europe (Poland and Turkey) and China, where Peugeot has a joint venture with Dong Feng Motors (an auto assembly plant that can turn out 150, 000 vehicles a year plus an engine and gearbox factory).

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And although Im Dong-Hyun can barely read the big letters at the top of an optician's chart, he can hit that small, yellow circle time and time again.

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"Our introduction of high-speed 30 nanometer class NAND late last year served as an initial pathway for stimulating acceptance of the new high-performance toggle DDR technology, " said Dong-Soo Jun, executive vice president, Memory marketing, Samsung Electronics.

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It is home, after all, to Ding Dong Daddy, hero of a 1930s music-hall number still popular as the theme-song of an annual Dumas summer festival (though Dumas, Texas also claims him).

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