What is a Carcinogen? A carcinogen is any substance that can directly cause cancer in living tissue. Radioactive substances are considered to be carcinogens, as well as none -radioactive carcinogens, which include tobacco smoke, dioxins, ...
From that date shoppers will have to pay at least 5p for each single use carrier bag they use. According to the Department of Environment, the main aim of the charge is to help protect the environment by "reducing the unnecessary use of ...
The city’s construction and administration bureau announced on Monday that it will urge skyscraper builders and property owners to conduct safety checks and repairs on glass curtain walls which have been in use for more than ten years ...
Tags: skyscraper glass, glass, glass curtain walls
Innovation performance in the EU has improved year on year in spite of the continuing economic crisis, but the innovation divide between Member States is widening. This is the result of the European Commission Innovation Union Scoreboard ...
Tags: EU, Gap, More Innovative
Last week, the Rupp Report wrote about the initiative against rip-off artists, as it is called in Switzerland, or against Fats Cats, as called misleadingly in some other countries (See " The Rupp Report: Is Enough Now Enough?" ...
Listed companies have been warned to upgrade their disclosure practices in light of new rules from the Australian Securities Exchange or risk enforcement action from the corporate regulator. The Australian Securities & Investment ...
The corporate regulator must not employ a one-size-fits-all approach to dark trading to ensure it stamps out harmful levels of activity in so-called "dark pools" without removing some of the benefits of trading away from exchanges, ...
Tags: trading practice, Securities, Investments
Eighteen lingerie stores in shopping centres located in east Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, have been shutdown by the Labour Ministry and the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, following failure of these shops to fulfil the Saudization ...
Tags: lingerie stores, Saudi Arabia, lingerie
THE dollar tumbled to its lowest level in eight months after China announced new measures to cool property prices, fuelling speculation that demand for Australia's commodities might weaken. The Aussie also fell after local data showed ...
Tags: economy, real estate
Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) is applauding new legislation introduced today in the House of Commons aimed at cracking down on counterfeit goods. CME says the bill will provide RCMP and customs officials the authority to ...
The market regulator is considering action against five high-frequency traders and one dark-pool operator as its taskforce continues to consider new rules for those practices. Staff from the Australian Securities & Investments Commission ...
Tags: Taskforce Targets, market regulator, ASIC
Multi-line commercial property and casualty (P&C) insurance company Society Insurance (Society) has selected Cover-All Policy to upgrade its entire policy platform. Society Insurance's policy platform comprises rating, quoting, ...
Tags: P&C insurance, Society, Cover-All Policy
Hewlett-Packard has issued new guidelines to limit the use of student labor at its supplier factories in China, in what it claimed was the first of its kind for the IT industry. The company issued the guidelines to address "the ...
Tags: Hewlett-Packard, IT industry, student labor
Genworth US Mortgage Insurance (USMI) has launched a new set of rules, Simply Underwrite (SM), which enables lenders to provide simplified and expanded national mortgage underwriting guidelines. Apart from offering one expanded national ...
A secret review of American policies governing the use of cyberweapons has concluded that President Barack Obama has the broad power to order pre-emptive strikes on any country preparing to launch a major digital attack against the U.S. ...
Tags: cyberweapons, broad power, digital attack