Vietnam is one of the countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and the agreement throws a challenge for Vietnam’s garment and textile sector which heavily depends on raw material imports for production of finished ...
Tags: Garment Sector, Apparel
Companies in China, whose tainted milk powder scandal in 2008 left six dead and more than 300,000 sick, are vaunting tie-ups with French dairies to shore up their image but some fear this could backfire for Paris. Chinese firm Biostime ...
Tags: Dairy Firms, milk powder
Standards Australia has recently released a draft revised version of the voluntary Children’s Nightwear Standard - AS/NZS 1249. Children’s nightwear is subject to a mandatory standard in Australia and must comply with ...
Tags: Aussie Draft, Nightwear
Microsoft’s Xbox One will become available on Nov. 22 and the company has made the game console faster by cranking up the clock speeds of the CPU and graphics processor. The console is priced at US$499 and will be available in the ...
State-owned Shougang, one of China's largest steel companies, resumed operations at its 300 mt/year gas-to-ethanol pilot plant in Jingtang, northern China, in August, following a halt in February due to a technical glitch, a spokesman at ...
Tags: steel, Construction
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will not oppose the proposed acquisition by Air New Zealand Limited (Air New Zealand) of an additional 6 per cent of Virgin Australia Holdings Pty Ltd (Virgin). On 3 September 2013, the ...
Abbott has unveiled preliminary results from a study that is being carried out by the University of Edinburgh researchers on the company’s Architect Stat High Sensitive Troponin-I (hsTnI) test, at ESC (European Society of Cardiology) ...
The National Dairy Authority (NDA) of Philippines has reported that the imports of milk and cream from abroad decreased 5.4% to 405,930 tons for the first quarter of 2013. The decline in imports was primarily due to increase in domestic ...
Tags: Dairy Imports, Agriculture
According to the market expectations, the FED of Australia cut benchmark interest rates to 2.5%. The fed said, the outlook for inflation may create a favorable environment for further rate cuts. Analysts said, although the Australian dollar ...
ALDI Queensland managing director Viktor Jakupec and CHEP Australia and New Zealand president Phillip Austin have jointly launched a new-generation reusable plastic crate, 'Gen 3' for the fresh produce industry at ALDI's Salisbury store in ...
Tags: Chain Transport, Service
Chinese company Yashili has received approval to establish a NZ$220m ($170.7m) infant formula production facility in Pokeno, New Zealand. The Waikato District Council gave clearance for the facility after a three-day hearing which was ...
Tags: Yashili, Infant Formula
New Zealand’s Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has found that Fonterra’s whey protein concentrate ingredient and the products made using it, including infant formula, were free from Clostridium botulinum. MPI has carried ...
Tags: Fonterra, Botulinum Concerns
Metcash Trading has recalled frozen Black and Gold Broccoli Florets in Australia as the products may contain glass fragments, according to the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ). The product associated with the recall is 500g ...
China blocked 42 tons of Fonterra's whole milk powder from entering the country in May after checks at the border found excess levels of nitrites and it was sent back to New Zealand, the scandal-hit dairy giant confirmed Thursday. ...
Tags: Milk Powder, Nitrites
Fonterra has temporarily suspended its consumer operations in Sri Lanka after it faced allegations that some of its milk products were contaminated. The protests comes after claims by the Sri Lankan authorities that some of Fonterra's ...
Tags: Fonterra, milk products