Wheat:Net sales of 656,100 MT for delivery during the 2013/2014 marketing year were up 76 percent from the previous week and 47 percent from the prior 4-week average.Increases reported for Japan(129,400 MT),Nigeria(110,000 ...
The European Commission has granted marketing authorization for GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix [Human papillomavirus bivalent (types 16 and 18) vaccine, recombinant] as a two-dose schedule for girls aged 9 to 14. ...
Tags: cervical cancer vaccine, Medicine
The U.S. Department of Commerce has set a new limit on duty-free imports of apparel articles assembled in Haiti under the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity Through Partnership for Encouragement Act (HOPE). According to a notification on ...
Tags: Duty-Free Apparel, Apparel
A number of garment factories in Haiti were forced to close last week following protests by workers demanding a higher minimum wage. The workers say a rise in the minimum wage set out last month, and due to come into effect from 1 ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories, garment
After several rounds of meeting with the relevant stakeholders, the Supreme Council for Wages (CSS) has fixed the minimum wage for Category C employees, which include those working in the apparel export sector, at 225 gourdes (about US$ ...
It may be years, if ever, before drones are delivering Amazon.com products to people’s doorsteps. But they’ve already been successfully field-tested when it comes to delivering crucially needed medical supplies. Andreas ...
Emser Tile has made a donation to the Red Cross Relief Fund for victims of the Typhoon Haiyan. "We encourage all to join us in helping those affected by this enormous disaster by making a donation to Red Cross Relief Fund," said Carl ...
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The health of most of the planet’s population is rapidly coming to resemble that of the United States, where death in childhood is rare, too much food is a bigger problem than too little, and life is long and often darkened by ...
Tags: Burden of Disease
Mission of Hope (MOH) in Haiti announced the first large-scale packaging of commodities purchased from Haitian farmers to feed children in local schools and orphanages. More than 8,000 pounds of beans and 22,000 pounds of rice were recently ...
Tags: Packaging, food packaging
H&H Textiles, the Haiti subsidiary of Seoul, Korea based Yujin Apparel has assembled its first 500 workers this month. The plant occupies 160,000 square feet in two modern buildings that comprise the Palmiers Free Zone, in the Carrefour ...
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Greif, Inc., a global industrial packaging products and services company, today announced the company will work with Habitat for Humanity International to distribute 100,000 PackH2O collapsible water backpacks in eight developing countries ...
Tags: Transportable Drinking Water Packaging, Packaging, Printing
The American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN) announced late Tuesday that John T. "Jock" Menzies III, president of American Logistics Aid Network had died unexpectedly. According to a published report, Menzies, 69, was travelling in a private ...
Tags: Logistics, Transportation
Healthcare providers in the United States have preconceived notions about electronic health records-namely, that EHR systems haven't lived up to their promise of transforming healthcare by improving efficiency and cutting costs. The ...
In most of the leading apparel-exporting countries, the wages for garment workers have stagnated or declined over the past decade, says a latest report. Among the top four apparel exporters to the United States, prevailing wages in ...
Tags: Garment Workers, Wages
DHL Express is celebrating its first year as the official logistics partner of charities Free The Children and Me to We. By providing the charities with free shipping, storage and logistics support, DHL has allowed them to allocate 90% of ...
Tags: DHL, Transportation