At the same time it has been facing regulatory scrutiny in the US after a £415m fine for breaches of sanctions with Iran.
While Cisco still has the dominant share of the networking market, it has been facing increased competition from both Hewlett-Packard and innovative new companies like Arista and Nicira.
In addition, any potential truce deal would probably include an increase in commercial traffic from Israel and Egypt into Gaza, which is Hamas's central demand: to end the economic boycott and border closing it has been facing.
Alibaba is one of the biggest e-commerce firms in China but it has been facing increased competition from rival Tencent.
However, it has been facing increased competition on that front as well, especially from Chinese firms such as Xiaomi, Huawei and ZTE.
This article briefly discusses recent development in and driving forces behind nuclear industry in China, and several challenges it has been facing: how to adopt, adapt, standardise and indigenise whose technologies, and how to address the shortage of qualified nuclear engineers, scientists, skilled labour force and qualified regulators.
32 In this environment, it has been facing several challenges relating to the organization, financing, and delivery of health care services, with a fixed annual public pharmaceutical expenditure in the context of a memorandum signed with its international lenders.
The authority said it had been faced with a 27% cut in its financial support from central government.
It had been faced with failure rates that could have barred tens of thousands of students from graduating.
In registering its "unspeakable sadness" at giving up daily publication, the paper said it had been "facing difficulties for a while now".
