2 Sisters'dispute with workers at its West Midlands sites is now over and the strike planned for tomorrow(December 21)has been cancelled. Workers first voted to strike over pay,working conditions and an alleged culture of bullying and ...
A former Apple executive has spoken about his twenty years at the company, and has given his perspective of what CEO Tim Cook is like to work for. David Sobotta was a sales executive at Apple from 1984 to 2004, and, though he ...
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Once upon a world, we had homes with grand front porches. You'd see folks on the porch after dinner, sipping a beverage, chatting to other folk across the way as the sun sank in the sky. Passersby would nod, exchange a pleasantry, chuckle ...
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Divine Chocolate, a Ghana-based manufacturer of Fairtrade chocolate products, has introduced new products to its Easter range. The new additions in the range include chocolate chickens & eggs and chocolate bees with a honeycomb crunch, ...
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has announced that Nadeau Poultry Farm, which is located in Madawaska County, New Brunswick, has been fined for causing injury to animals while transportation. CFIA investigations revealed that ...
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Good night, good night All that remains is for Paul McCartney to sing us off to our slumbers. It's been a terrific night, a glorious ceremony, a rousing history lesson and far and away the best film that Danny Boyle never made. Thanks ...
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In a ballot today (December 7) by the union Unite, around 1,200 workers voted to stage three days of 24-hour strikes in a protest over pay, working conditions and a culture of alleged bullying. Andrew Hanson, head of ...
The Agriculture Department of the Philippines has imposed an import restriction on poultry products and by-products from Mexico, due to an outbreak of bird flu. Mexico recently reported detection of avian flu with serotype H7 in three ...
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High levels of the poisonous chemical dioxin were found in eggs from a German farm, resulting in a recall of 268,000 eggs in the country. The farm is located in the Emsland area in the north German state of Lower Saxony, and the eggs from ...
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Mexico has activated a national animal health emergency plan after an outbreak of bird flu affected nearly 1.7 million poultry. Under the plan, strict controls have been placed on the transport of poultry, poultry products and other ...
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Liannan Yao Autonomous County of Qingyuan City in northwest mountain areas of north Canton is the only habitation of Paiyao in our country, and it is also the popular region for Shuagetang songfest. Shuagetang songfest is a large-scale ...
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US meat company Sanderson Farms plans to establish a new chicken processing plant in Nash County,North Carolina,US.The plant would process about 50 million chickens annually,and create 1,100 jobs. Sanderson Farms chairman and CEO Joe ...
UK-based supermarket chain Sainsbury's is launching the first Norfolk Black Chicken,a brand new breed for customers across the UK. Bred from two heritage breeds,the chicken has distinguished black legs and feathers with specks of bronze ...
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There are many particular customs in the wedding ceremony of the Manchu ethnic group,which has a long,splendid history.Most of the customs are similar in the different places that the ethnic group lives throughout China. A wedding ...
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Traditionally, four rituals precede and are prerequisite to the nuptials of Bouyei ethnic groups. Taking place in succession, the rituals comprise the Bouyei pre-wedding period and its customary practices. The first of these rituals, ...
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