South Korea, which sends around a quarter of its exports to China, is one of the few countries in the world to run a trade surplus with the Asian giant. Both countries want more of this trade to be done in yuan, which would make trade ...
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All the world's cropland is a difficult task. Yet the competition for land among developers, growers and other parties makes getting an accurate count of the world's arable acres especially important as the planet's population grows. The ...
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According to the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC), excess cotton stocks held outside China are likely to keep international cotton prices down in 2015-16. Stocks outside China are projected to surge 26 per cent to 9.4 ...
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U.S. specialty jewelry store sales fell 5.4 percent year on year to $2.72 billion in February, according to government calculations. The sales decline was much more severe than preliminary totals for jewelry and watch sales across all ...
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If farmers in the Corn Belt can get through the next 10 days or so, it should be time to plant corn like crazy. That's if the latest forecast for the region, one that shows lingering moisture is going to keep a lot of fieldwork and ...
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Last week, the developing crop weather story in the Midwest was one of dry soils and their potential for impeding early spring fieldwork and planting. As this week begins, it looks like Mother Nature's going to bring some much-needed ...
China is toughening its examination of milk powder imported from New Zealand, according to the quality control watchdog, after revelations emerged on Tuesday of a criminal threat to contaminate some products with an agricultural poison. ...
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A recent research has revealed that plain tobacco packaging has the potential to reduce the likelihood of smokers seeking to obtain cigarettes by almost 10% compared to branded packs. The Universities of Exeter and Bristol released the ...
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Acording to a recent survey by the Federation of Korean Industries, 17 out of 29 major business groups in Korea picked restructuring as the center of their business strategy for this year. In contrast, only eight and two chose R&D ...
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A probiotic treatment for peanut allergy has been successfully trialled by Australian researchers at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. The researchers said their findings showed that there was potential for a long term cure ...
The weather world's been talking for months about the prospect of the southern oscillation index tilting from La Nina to El Nino, a shift that normally signals more crop-friendly, mild and moisture-plentiful weather for the Midwest. But ...
(Nanowerk News) Research by scientists attached to the EC’s GrapheneGraphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is one-atom-thick planar sheets of sp2-bonded carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice. ...
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With regards its proposal to acquire Family Dollar Stores, retailer Dollar General has concluded that the additional step of certifying substantial compliance with the FTC's request for further information and documentary material is ...
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Samsung reckons its profits have slipped by a staggering 37.4 per cent year-on-year in the run up to Christmas 2014. The South Korean tech giant outed its pre-earnings guidance, revealing a predicted operating profit of 5.2 trillion ...
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Oil closed up on Wednesday for the first time in five days as traders took stock of the market's rout after crude prices lost nearly 10 percent over two days and benchmark Brent fell to below $50 a barrel. A decline in Brent crude futures ...
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