‘‘As a five-time honoree, Hasbro´s commitment to leading with integrity is evidenced by its continuing commitment to corporate social responsibility initiatives and a robust risk based compliance and ethics programme." ...
The Australian Federal Government's Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) is allowing China's Moon Lake Investments to acquire Australia's largest dairy producer, Van Diemen's Land Company (VDL). The purchase price is AUD$280 million for ...
The Australian treasury has given its approval to the sale of the country's largest dairy farm Tasmanian Land Company (TLC) including Van Diemen's Land Company (VDL), to Chinese billionaire Lu Xianfeng's Australian arm Moon Lake Investments ...
Tags: VDL, Dairy Farm
A group of consumers is pledging never to buy Lilydale free-range chickens again after finding out the chickens are fed genetically modified (GM) feed. The issue arose by complaints on social media followed by a response by Lilydale on ...
Tags: Free-range chickens, non-GM food
Nighttime light pollution, or sky glow, is the combined light from streetlights, parking lots, malls, office buildings, stadiums and other structures that brightens night skies and drastically limits the visibility of stars. Sky glow ...
Tags: LED Light, LED lighting
With oil product stocks at moderate levels, Shandong's teapot refineries have kept refinery run rates relatively high, which is supporting demand for feedstock crudes, sources said this week. Regular importer Beifang Asphalt Fuel in ...
Tags: oil product, bitumen
Benefit from various countries' promotion on LED lighting products and LED applications in large-sized LCD field, LED Display Screen Industry continues to keep rapid growth in 2009, which becomes key areas of demand expansion. Technological ...
Tags: LED Display, LED Screen, Chipshow
China's central bank has said it is planning to upgrade its financial risk assessment framework which will be launched next year, in a bid to ward off financial risks. The capital adequacy ratio, a measure of an institution's ability to ...
Tags: New Financial Risk
Taiwan consumers have continued to show lower expectations about future income and investment as well as general economic situation for the eighth-consecutive month in December, said a survey publicized Monday. The consumer confidence ...
Tags: Consumer Confidence, Keep Lowering
China is going to be the third-largest contributor to UN regular budget 2016-2018, with its assessed contribution accounting for 7.9 percent, said a senior Chinese diplomat Wednesday. The Chinese contribution to the total UN membership ...
Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has produced more than 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas this year, ranking second in the country following Shaanxi Province. According to the latest statistics from the region's ...
Tags: Natural Gas
The central bank on Tuesday announced plans to introduce green bonds to allow financial institutions to raise funds for green projects. The People's Bank of China (PBOC) said the green bond will widen financing channels for projects in ...
Tags: Green Bond, Interbank Market
he Bank of Japan (BOJ) announced on Friday it would expand the size of its asset purchasing program while maintaining the same size of the monetary base, in a bid to drive wages higher and boost business spending, two mainstays of the ...
Tags: Bank of Japan Unveils, Increase Wages, Business Spending
The price of Australian alumina continued to drift sideways Thursday, leaving Platts daily assessment unchanged at $200/mt FOB, despite a slight slippage of Yuan 15/mt ($2.30) in Chinese domestic prices in Shanxi province. The Australian ...
Tags: alumina, Australian alumina
The US vinyl acetate monomer market is seeing a tightening of supply that will likely push pricing higher through the first quarter of 2016 despite falling feedstock prices and a weaker energy sector, sources said. US VAM increased $20/mt ...