A wheat farmer each from California, Maryland and Nebraska will be joining me on this year's USW Africa-Europe Board Team, kicking off Friday, Jan. 11 through Jan. 24. Our team will be traveling to Nigeria, Ghana, Italy and Spain. USW ...
The Pakistan garment industry still needs to overcome certain challenges and produce goods of international standards in order to fully benefit from the Generalized System of Preferences Plus (GSP+) status granted by the European Union ...
Tags: Garment Industry, Textile products
The Obamacare website HealthCare.gov handled 83,000 concurrent users before the deadline of Christmas Eve -- as promised, U.S. government officials say. Julie Bataille, director of communications at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Health service, insurance
The Commercial Court of Lyon in southeast France has accepted a joint takeover offer for the struggling petrochemicals firm Kem One, by Alain de Krassny and Opengate Capital, the company said in a statement late Friday. Kem One, a vinyl ...
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A new study suggests that immersing yourself in news of a shocking and tragic event may not be good for your emotional health. People who watched, read and listened to the most coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings -- six or more hours ...
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Timely action by the U.S. Grains Council, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Trade Representative averted a patently protectionist seasonal market closure in Panama, keeping this important market open for U.S. corn exports. ...
U.S. Sens. Rob Portman and Sherrod Brown and Reps. Bob Latta and Jim Jordan sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Mike Froman urging government ...
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The early morning highlights from the major news organizations examine today's deadline for enrolling for health insurance that would begin Jan. 1, as well as a variety of other health law stories and several articles on mental health ...
The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Vietnam, with support from the Vietnamese Embassy in Korea and the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS) collaborated with the Korean Textile Association, and organized a seminar in the South ...
Tags: Textiles Sector, Textile
An Iranian deputy minister of petroleum has said that administration of Hassan Rouhani welcomes Japanese and European firms’ investment in Iran’s oil industry. Speaking to Yomiuri Shimbun, Ali Majedi said that the ...
Tags: investment, mineral, oil
SPARWOOD, BC, Nov. 29, 2013 /CNW/ - For its outstanding performance in the Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) initiative's three focus areas--environmental footprint, communities and people, and energy efficiency--Teck's Elkview Operations in ...
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Prince Saud bin Abdullah bin Thenayan Al-Saud, Chairman of SABIC and Chairman of the Royal Commission for Jubail & Yanbu, officially opened the company's state-of-the-art SABIC Technology Center (STC) in Bengaluru, India in a ceremony which ...
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At first glance Burundi and Ethiopia look like total opposites. Burundi is the smallest country in Africa while Ethiopia is one of the largest. But the two countries have a lot more in common than you might think. Agriculture is the ...
Tags: Apparel Sector, Apparel
IMBA is holding its biennial World Summit in its home state of Colorado next year, in Steamboat Springs. The get-together is planned for Aug. 20-24, 2014. It brings together mountain bike enthusiasts, volunteers, trail builders, bike ...
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It was considered the largest oil-related natural disaster in the history of the world, so it only follows that the fine would be historic too. Gargantuan oil company BP has agreed to pay the largest criminal penalty in U.S. history for ...