Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) has received the SVLK timber legality certification on its ninth and final mill The paper producer claims that this is significant for APP as it is the first Indonesian business to achieve fully SVLK ...
Tags: paper, national timber legality standard, timber, deforestation, pulp
Following declines in the first two quarters, turnover of the Danish timber retail group, Dalhoff Larsen & Horneman (DLH) declined again in the third quarter by 4.4% to DKK586m. The EBITDA dropped drastically by comparison with the previous ...
Tags: timber, wood-based panels, hardwood
Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, is the longest and most important holiday for Chinese people. It is usually celebrated from the eighth day of the twelfth month to the fifteenth of the first month (lantern festival), by Chinese lunar ...
Tags: Spring Festival, painting, artworks, folk arts, handicraft
Last weekend was the first ever "Design Milk Presents" event, Reinvention; Writing History Through Aluminum, featuring new works by Brad Ascalon and Frederick McSwain (AM) for Neal Feay Studio, an exhibition at Bobby Berk Home (it runs ...
Also known as "Fancy Lantern", festoon lighting is a sort of traditional folk handicraft in China. They are usually hung up to enhance happy atmospheres during traditional festivals as well as wedding ceremonies and old people's birthday ...
Tags: lighting, artworks, folk arts, handicraft
According to the fifth national census in 2000, the Primi population is 33,600. Their language, Primi, is a member of the Tibetan-Burman group of the Sino-Tibetan phylum. In the past, Primi was written using Tibetan characters, however, ...
Tags: Primi, food, architecture, festivals, customs
Burberry, the British luxury fashion brand, has opened its first ever exclusive menswear store in Knightsbridge, London. Inspired by the label’s recently opened digitally-enhanced flagship outlet in London’s Regent Street, ...
Tags: Burberry, menswear store, exclusive menswear
In October 2012, the EU and Indonesia started a test run for deliveries of timber with FLEGT licences. The aim is to identify and document potential problems with import and export deliveries from Indonesia to the EU associated with timber ...
Tags: FLEGT system, timber
Demand for Brazilian elliotis pine plywood has picked up in Europe since mid-October after initially sluggish business. Importers have now bought large amounts against next year‘s duty-free quota for softwood plywood imports into the ...
For a variety of reasons, problems are still being encountered in exports of Russian softwood logs to the EU at reduced rates of customs duty. Since Russia's accession to the WTO, spruce and pine logs can be imported into the EU at reduced ...
Tags: exports of Russian softwood logs, softwood logs, rates of customs duty
A few days ago,I ran into a friend of mine,who specializes in copper and brass accessories and fixtures for homes.I asked if he had much work.He said the summer was slow,but business had picked up a bit this fall.What work he's gotten has ...
Tags: copper, brass accessories, fixtures, Kitchen design
Population and Distribution: The Chaoxian ethnic group (also written as 'Korean'), with a total population of 1,923,842 according to the census taken in 2000, is scattered mainly in Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning Provinces. Smaller ...
Tags: Chaoxian Nationality, History, Religion, Economy, Food, Festivals
The Miaos, with a population of 7,398,035, are mainly distributed in Guizhou, Hunan, Yunnan provinces and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Miao women, living in Anning, Yunnan Province, and their ornaments. Once a girt is ...
Tags: Minority Peoples, The Miaos, language
Having welcomed visitors from over 50 countries during this year's Glasstec exhibition(Dusseldorf,23rd–26th October 2012),CGI International,a leading manufacturer of fire resistant glazing,is well on course to become the world's ...
Tags: glasstec exhibition, CGI, fire resistant glazing, fire glass products
In June, the UK's pallet and packaging advisory association, Pallet Link, advised its members that the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) in China were intercepting export consignments from ...
Tags: pallet, packaging, Pallet Link, WPM