Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) Spokesman Sun Jiwen commented on the progress of implementing the Chinese government’s fourth round of aid at a value of 500 million yuan to west African countries in coping with Ebola announced ...
The Chinese government’s first batch of emergency materials, including 40 diesel engines, 100 water pumps and 25 steamboats, arrived in Colombo, capital of Sri Lanka, on March 3-4, carried by two chartered flights. They were ...
Tags: humanitarian aid, biggest flood
Recently, Madagascar was stricken by hurricane and rainstorm, causing the breaching and inundating of the dike of rivers, and the destruction of roads, bridges, buildings and farmlands. Antananarivo, the capital, was badly destroyed, and ...
Tags: hurricane, rainstorm, assistance
In March 29-April 1, Chuuk and Yap in Micronesia suffered from intense tropical storm, resulting in large-scale disruption of water and electricity supply, traffic and communication, causing a certain number of casualties and severe damage ...
Nepal broke out Ms 8.1 powerful earthquake on April 25, causing causalities and significant property losses. The government of Nepal calls on the international community to provide emergency assistance. In order to express the firm ...
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A 7.5 magnitude aftershock struck Nepal on May 12. In accordance with the disaster progress and the Nepal government’s needs, to help the Nepal side fight against the secondary disaster and do the relief work well, the Chinese ...
Tags: earthquake, relief supplies
The Head of the Department of Foreign Assistance of the Ministry of Commerce says that the first batch of 40 tons of the third round of emergency earthquake relief materials provided by the Chinese government to Nepal has arrived in ...
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Official from the Department of Foreign Assistance of MOFCOM said on August 5 that the constant high temperature since July has caused glaciers to melt. It has led to severe landslides in Tajikistan and caused serious casualties and a great ...
At the night of August 26 to August 27, 2015, Dominica was hit by the tropical storm “Erika”. The sustaining high wind and rainstorm hit heavily the whole island of Dominica with most of the rivers flooding, many mountains ...
Tags: rivers flooding, disaster relief
On September 16, 2015, a violent magnitude 8.4 earthquake hit the fourth region in North Chile, affecting most regions of the country. The strong earthquake caused large casualties and financial loss to the people of Chile. In order to ...
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Quiksilver, Inc. announced that the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware has approved a variety of First Day Motions related to its voluntary Chapter 11 restructuring. Collectively, the orders granted by the ...
Tags: Quiksilver, Roxy, DC
Mars Canada can heave a sigh of relief as alleged price fixing charges against the candy distributor have been dropped by Canada’s competition watchdog. The Crown prosecutors had stayed the charges levelled in 2013 against Mars ...
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In December 2014, the Chinese government announced it would no longer be encouraging local governments to issue financial subsidies to LED manufacturers. The announcement which could have brought a sigh of relief to foreign competitors, had ...
Tags: LED Subsidies, LED industry
New for 2015, Decorex International has announced its collaboration with specialist in surface design, Material Lab. Celebrating this year’s show theme, the ‘Future of Luxury’, the installation will showcase the latest in ...
The Bombay High Court in India has revoked the ban on Nestle's Maggi noodles and ordered regulators to undertake fresh tests on the product. This comes a day after the Indian government sued the company to pay $100m in settlment for its ...
Tags: Nestle, Maggi noodles, noodles