As China rebalances its economy, some are concerned that the expected slowdown in investment might lead to job losses. Yin Weimin, minister for human resources and social security, told a news conference on February 29 that 1.3 million ...
Tags: Soft Skills, coal sector
Future food labelling and product safety laws could be scrapped if legal pressure from multinational companies increases as a result of clauses within the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. Consumer advocacy group Choice has ...
Tags: Food Label, TPP, Product safety laws
Japanese food company Ajinomoto and Japanese technology company Nippon Rika through a joint venture has established a company to manufacture Cysteine Hydrochloride, an amino acid that is used for food products and flavorings. The new food ...
De Beers is talking about change, urging the trade to be proactive in dealing with a persistently uncertain and volatile market environment. While the company has directed its message to the diamond industry at large, and specifically to ...
Tags: diamond industry, diamond
For merchants, search engine and B2B website there are similarities, both even can replace each other. But due to the mobile Internet and social networking & E commerce, search engine and B2B are under threat. Search engine faces the ...
Tags: Search Engine, B2B
The US posted a second consecutive year of record oil production growth in 2013 with its surging shale industry balancing out supply disruptions to underpin an unprecedented period of stable global oil prices, BP said Monday. US output ...
Tags: oil production, oil supply
Crude production in Libya is facing further setbacks this week, as loadings out of the 110,000 b/d Marsa al-Hariga crude terminal in Eastern Libya have stuttered to a halt. Traders and shipping sources said that no there have been no ...
Tags: Crude production, oil flowing
The World Trade Organization has ruled in favour of the US, Europe and Japan in a dispute with China over its export restrictions on rare earth. China's rare earth industry – responsible for almost 90% of global output – ...
Tags: Rare Earth, rare earth export
The European Steel Association (EUROFER) has stated that the growing uncertainties in Ukraine show once again the strong correlation between security of supply and increasing energy prices in Europe. Russian state gas monopoly Gazprom ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Energy, gas
Some in politics and media say the Affordable Care Act will fail, but top U.S. healthcare executives say healthcare will improve, a survey says. Study authors Ralph W. Muller, chief executive officer of the University of Pennsylvania ...
Microsoft has admitted that it has too many operating systems and will no longer offer either Windows Phone, Windows 8 or Windows RT. Speaking at the UBS Global Technology Conference, Microsoft spoke about the effective failure of its ...
Tags: Microsoft, Windows RT, Under Threat
The global oil market is currently well supplied but growing demand pressures and ongoing disruptions in some OPEC producing countries could soon reverse a recent spate of softer oil prices, the International Energy Agency said Thursday. ...
Tags: Oil Prices, oil market
Across large parts of the world Christmas is fast approaching. Retail stores are already stocking the usual tat associated with the festivity while young children begin to prepare their wish lists. Those who have behaved well this year or ...
Tags: Uranium
Dairy Crest is consulting staff on plans to break up its milk delivery business in the north west of England and sell it off for £1.15M to Creamline Dairies. Dairy Crest said the sale would help reduce its exposure to the less ...
Tags: Dairy, Milk, Agriculture, Food
Simplot’s Tasmanian factory. Simplot Australia employees at the Bathurst, NSW and Devonport, Tasmania food manufacturing plants have been told that their places of work are under threat of closure. The company is experiencing ...