A law forcing tobacco companies to wrap their cigarettes in plain packaging could be in force in New Zealand by the end of 2016. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has confirmed a bill, which is on pause, would be resumed. He expected ...
The UK government has scrapped the proposal of levying sugar tax on food and drink products, which are believed to contain high calories and culprits for growing obesity levels in the country. The government is believed to be not in ...
Tags: High-Calorie Products, Sugar
The state of Ontario, Canada has hiked the incentives for electric vehicles to a maximum of $14,000, making it attractive for car buyers. As per the new program, the incentive has been increased for electric vehicles from $5000 to $8,000 ...
Tags: Electric Vehicles, Incentives
US-based agricultural and food company Cargill has opened a $100m modern wet corn milling facility in Devagere in Karnataka state of India. The corn facility is spread over a sprawling 44.5 acres of land with a daily milling capacity of ...
Tags: agricultural Food, Wet Corn
Indian food regulatory authority, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, is likely to do away with approvals for food products if the ingredients used in them have received clearance before itself and are declared safe. This ...
China is the world's largest producer and exporter of rare-earths. These are elements which are critical to the manufacturing of high-tech products, including smartphones, wind turbines and car batteries, among other things. However, ...
Tags: Rare Earth, smartphones
The supply-side structural reform to improve all-factor productivity will help China gather future growth steam, according to the country's finance minister. Despite heavy downward economic pressure, the Chinese economy is still resilient ...
Tags: Structural Reform, capital inputs
Thanks to tireless promotion by top Chinese leaders, the country's railway industry has seen another year of good harvest in overseas markets in 2015, culminating in the launch of a railway project in Asia and the start of another in Europe ...
More and more Chinese enterprises are choosing India as a destination for investment, as the country is becoming more open to foreign capital. In a keynote speech at the China-India Business Forum in Shanghai, made during his visit to ...
Tags: Investment Destination, India
China has provided more than 140 billion yuan (21.6 billion U.S.dollars) to low-income residents over the past 11 months, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) on Monday. China has some 66.5 million people, five percent of its ...
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom World 2015 opened in Budapest on Monday with keynote addresses by ITU Secretary-General Zhao Houlin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Zhao underlined that small and ...
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The Chinese government has welcomed the agreement reached by Japan and South Korea on Japan's wartime sexual slavery of Korean women during World War II, calling on Japan to deal with historical issues in a responsible way. Chinese ...
Tags: Sex Slavery Deal
Young Masamba Issa has just clocked 13 years. The girl who almost lost her battle against malaria in 2008, is now a healthy five feet two inches tall form two student at Boko secondary school in Dar es Salaam. "I had given up when medical ...
Tags: Anti-Malaria Drug, Tanzania
China is set to become the global leader in renewable technology, aiding the rise of a moderately prosperous society following the significant reforms implemented in the five-year plans. Frederic Neumann, co-head of Asian Economic ...
China is set to stop construction of public rental houses and renovate 6 million run-down urban houses in 2016. The program is a crucial way of providing low-income urban residents with affordable housing. Minister of Housing and ...
Tags: Renovate, Run-down Houses