It's reported that Starbucks coffee and mugs were more expensive in China than in other countries, so that Starbucks obtained high profits. Starbucks have been the foreign-funded enterprises under fire from Chinese state media after ...
Tags: Starbucks, Foreign Trademark
A year ago, rising domestic property prices would most likely have prompted policymakers to reach into the cupboard and pull out a blanket and smother them. Former premier Wen Jiabao, who stepped down in March, oversaw a nearly ...
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Labelling them a "luxury in coffee," a China Central Television report yesterday said Starbucks coffee and mugs were more expensive in China than in London, Chicago and Mumbai. A cup of 354 milliliters of Latte coffee costs 27 yuan ...
Tags: Starbucks Coffee, Higher Price
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 ...
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On September 16, U.S. International Trade Commission announced starting antidumping and anti-subsidy investigations into monosodium glutamates from China and Indonesia to determine whether the alleged dumping and subsidies of the imported ...
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The German Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection has cast a new spotlight on projects to reduce or avoid emissions from timber and timber products within its renewable raw materials funding initiative. The project ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
NAHB is pleased by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear American Chemistry Council, et al. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to challenge EPA's plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Because ...
Tags: Construction, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
With the recent vote in the European Parliament's Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee, steps were taken to bring the general safety of products more in line with the already stringent safety rules for toys. For instance, other ...
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In order to improve the brand awareness of Qi county glassware and help it enter into Middle Asian and Russian markets, Provincial Department of Commerce and Qi County People’s Government held the promotion meeting in Urumqi. Wang ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Glass
Women in Saudi Arabia are planning to take to the roads on October 26 in protest of the country’s ban on female drivers. An online petition has attracted more than 15,700 signatures since being launched less than four weeks ago, ...
Tags: Saudi Women, National Driving Ban
Controversial changes to Victoria’s speed camera rules will allow police to hide behind trees and road signs and position themselves at the bottom of hills in the name of camera operator safety. A News Limited report reveals the new ...
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The Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) chairman Sheikh Ilyas Mehmood urged US to pay more attention towards the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Pakistan, as well as enhance the scope of Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) to ...
Tags: Textile, potential market
The Scottish Government is set to equip civil servants with Windows 8 tablets in an effort to improve their ability to work on the move. An initial pilot for key staff offered a choice of tablets from a selection comprising the Samsung ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
There is new recycled containerboard capacity scheduled to come on stream at the end of 2013. Blue Paper, a joint venture between VPK and Klingele Papierwerke (Germany), is in the final stages of converting a fine paper machine (from UPM ...
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Characters in my Red McKenna series of novels have a special rapport with their robotic servants through a natural-language communication system. It allows them the same kind of person-to-person interaction we enjoy with other people, pets ...
Tags: Mind Meld