About 2/3 of the nation's corn crop is out of the field, while farmers have caught up with the average pace with soybean harvest, according to Monday's USDA-NASS Crop Progress report. Eighty-three percent of the nation's soybean crop has ...
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Embroidery is a brilliant pearl in Chinese art. From the magnificent Dragon Robe worn by Emperors to the popular embroidery seen in today’s fashions, embroidery adds so much pleasure to our life and our culture. As a folk art with a ...
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The latest ABS Retail Trade figures show that Australian retail turnover rose 1.2 per cent in September 2014, seasonally adjusted, following a rise of 0.1 per cent in August 2014. In seasonally adjusted terms the largest contributor to ...
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Are you redecorating your home -- or just looking to buy a few fun accessories? Give some careful thought to the colors you choose. According to both Western color psychology and Chinese feng shui, every color has a personality and a ...
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The tools used by self-dressing women to coil their hair into a bun In Zhaoqing City of South China's Guangdong Province, the smell of opening-up and reform can be felt here and there with the newly built western-style buildings, ...
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US-based Port Brewing and The Lost Abbey have selected Wilson-McGinley as their new partner for distribution in the state of Pennsylvania. An agreement to this effect was signed between Port Brewing, The Lost Abbey, and Wilson-McGinley, ...
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As we konw, there are many differences between China and foreign countries,because people have different habits and faiths. Eating habits are different in many countries. The Chinese have a saying, “Eat good things for breakfast, ...
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Lion milk success after packaging switch to highlight dairy farmers Food and beverage manufacturer Lion has announced that, since switching its Dairy Farmers milk packaging in Far North Queensland to ‘Malanda Original Milk’, ...
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Visitors to the Las Vegas Market can “experience it all,” Sunday, January 18, through Thursday, January 22, 2015, with more furniture, gift and home resources than ever before with both new and expanding showrooms and ...
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Australian miner BHP Billiton has announced its production results for the first quarter ended September 30, 2014 of the financial year 2014-15, achieving a new quarterly record from its Western Australian iron ore operations with an iron ...
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PPG Industries' North American architectural coatings business has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Westmoreland Supply, an independent architectural paint distributor headquartered in Pittsburgh. The transaction is expected to ...
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Earlier this month Volga-Dnepr Airlines transported Mi-8 helicopters for the latest United Nations (UN) emergency health mission in response to the Ebola virus outbreak. The flight was operated using one of Volga-Dnepr’s An-124 ...
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In the year 1920 in China, women still bound their breasts and those who wore low-cut clothing revealing even the slightest bit of skin risked being arrested by outraged authorities. But only seven years later, the Chinese government ...
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On the first day of October 1949, 300,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians gathered at Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing and joined the founding ceremony of the New China. Chairman Mao read out the public announcement of the Central ...
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The full decade of the Cultural Revolution movement from 1966 to 1976 saw China's fashion go underground, buried under a sea of grass green army uniforms and Mao suits. But by the end of the year 1976, the winter of fashion discontent was ...