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Leaving The EU Spells Uncertainty for Toy Innovators
Aug 25, 2016Harbottle and Lewis's Jeremy Morton takes a look at what Brexit is likely to mean for toy businesses when it comes to their intellectual property protection. Whether it’s safety regulation or data protection laws, the EU has had a ...
Tags: Jeremy Morton, EU, Harbottle and Lewis
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Philippines to Join AIIB
Dec 31, 2015Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III has approved the country's participation in the China-initiated Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), senior government officials said Wednesday. Presidential Communications Operations ...
Tags: AIIB
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Japanese Gov't to Compile Record 798 Bln USD Budget for Fy 2016
Dec 22, 2015The Japanese government is set to announce a record-high budget of some 96.7 trillion yen (798 billion U.S. dollars) for the next fiscal year to cope with the nation's dire demographic circumstances and related welfare costs, government ...
Tags: Japanese Gov, Budget
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PBOC Welcomes US Ratification of IMF Quota and Governance Reforms
Dec 22, 2015The US Congress' approval of the quota and governance reforms of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been welcomed by the People's Bank of China (PBOC). According to the statement on the central bank's official website, this ...
Tags: Ratification, Imf Quota
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China Welcomes U.S. Ratification of Imf Quota Reforms
Dec 22, 2015China's central bank on Saturday welcomed the ratification of the 2010 quota and governance reforms of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the U.S. Congress on Dec. 18, 2015. "Such approval means that the 2010 reforms, after ...
Tags: Ratification, IMF Quota Reform
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Germany Becomes AIIB's Largest Non-Regional Shareholder
Dec 22, 2015As one of the first partners of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Germany has deposited its instrument of ratification of the bank at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China. Germany has contributed 4.5 billion US dollars, and ...
Tags: Investment Bank, Affairs of China.
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China Once again Urges U.S. to Ratify IMF Reform Plan ASAP
Dec 18, 2015China once again urged the United States to ratify the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s 2010 quota and governance reform plan, which will grant emerging countries greater say in the institution, as soon as possible. According to media ...
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Keeper of The Past
Dec 2, 2015The Palace Museum in Beijing is one of the country's first UNESCO World Heritage sites. [Photo by Zhuo Ensen/China Daily] China celebrates UNESCO founding with pledge to protect its own sites and do more, Wang Kaihao reports. Preservers ...
Tags: Mogao Caves, Palace Museum
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U. S. Trade Representative Releases Text of Trans Pacific Partnership
Nov 9, 2015The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative released the full text of the Trans Pacific Partnership on Thursday, providing the sporting goods industry its first opportunity to vet the details of the potentially historic trade agreement. ...
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2014 Business Review IX: Utilization of FDI Grows Steadily and Pace of Reform and Opening up Accelerated
Oct 23, 2015Against the backdrop of a severe international investment environment, great difficulties and challenges from the downward pressure of the domestic economy, China’s overall absorption of FDI remained stable in 2014, with the quality ...
Tags: FDI, foreign investment, liberalization of trade in service
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EU Trade Office of GSP Programme Reviewed The Benefits of GSP Plus Facility to Pakistan
May 20, 2015A delegation of the European Union trade office of generalised system of preferences (GSP) programme reviewed the benefits of GSP plus facility to Pakistan and the progress made so far on implementation of social standards related to labour ...
Tags: GSP Benefits, Textile exports
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Food 4 Less Announced That a Tentative Agreement Was Reached with 7 Southern UFCW Locals
Aug 28, 2014Food 4 Less/Foods Co stores, a division of The Kroger Co. (KR), today announced that a tentative agreement has been reached with the seven southern California UFCW locals. The agreement is fully-recommended and covers more than 6,000 ...
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Korean Companies Invest More in Vietnamese Textile and Apparel Sector
Jun 24, 2014In what can be termed as growing interest by Korean companies in investing in the textile and apparel sector in Vietnam, a new fibre manufacturing plant with Korean investment has been launched this month in Vietnam’s southern ...
Tags: Textile Sector, apparel sector
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NSF Follows The American National Standards Institute Standards Development Process
Apr 11, 2014NSF follows the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards development process. Standards are developed by joint committees (balanced stakeholder groups of public health, industry and user representatives). The NSF Council of ...
Tags: NSF Certification Standards, NSF Certification, certification, NSF
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Network Infrastructure Is Evolving Rapidly to Keep up with Growing Demand
Mar 5, 2014With CATV and broadband services becoming integral parts of service providers bundles, network infrastructure is evolving rapidly to keep up with growing demand, notes the Strategy Analytics GaAs and Compound Semiconductor Technology (GaAs) ...