The Canadian Food Inspection Agency(CFIA)has asked pig producers to take appropriate biosecurity measures to safeguard the health of their animals and people who may come into contact with them. This move comes in response to the ...
Tags: CFIA, pig producers, biosecurity measures, H3N2
UK-based Linpac Packaging has announced that the company's site in Bukowice, Poland will supply more than 100 million polystyrene trays a year to Polish meat processing company Pini Polonia, as part of a contract. Working in partnership ...
Tags: Polystyrene Trays, trays, pork products
There are many particular customs in the wedding ceremony of the Manchu ethnic group,which has a long,splendid history.Most of the customs are similar in the different places that the ethnic group lives throughout China. A wedding ...
Tags: Gifts, Manchurian Bride, wedding ceremony
Nu Ethnic Minority Group, which has a long history and mainly inhabits Yunnan Province, Southwest China, has some distinctive marriage customs. Just like the ballad goes, "the auntie's daughter doesn't yield to others", the mother's brother ...
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The Bai have a culture very elaborated with important works of history, religion, astronomy and medicine. Their most important myth is "Creation of the world" , which three sections well differentiated: Primordial times, Creation of the ...
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The ancestors of the Xibe ethnic group lived in the Hulunbuir grassland and the Nenjiang river area (within today's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region). In mid-18th century, they moved westward to Qapqal (within today's Xinjiang Uygur ...
Tags: Arrow shooting, Wrestling, Weight lifting, Horse racing, sheep snatching
The Wa are one of the peoples with a deeper religious feeling in Southwest China. Some researches done in the first years of communist reforms, just when all the life and culture of indigenous peoples must be evaluated in terms of ...
Scattered primarily throughout the Luoyu Region of southeast Tibet, the Luoba, with a population of 2,965 are the smallest of China's 56 ethnic groups. Their name is derived from the Tibetan word for southerners. Economy: Living at the ...
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The Gin (Jing) ethnic minority has a small population of only 22,517, according to the census taken in 2000. Most live on the three islands of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and the rest live and mingle with the Han, Zhuang and Yao ...
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A 5 year $5.4m grant has been awarded to Profectus BioSciences and the Galveston National Laboratory (GNL) at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston to support the development of a Vesicular Stomatitis virus-vectored vaccine ...
Tags: Trivalent Vaccine, rVSV-vectored filovirus, Ebola and Marburg Viruses
UK meat processor Linden Foods has secured a deal to supply bacon to Ahold's Albert Heijn stores in the Netherlands. Linden's Kettyle Irish Foods subsidiary is to sell "sustainably-produced" bacon to Albert Heijn, founder Maurice Kettyle ...
WHEAT:The 2012/13 U.S.wheat balance sheet is unchanged this month;however,small by-class adjustments are made to projected exports and stocks.Projected exports for Hard Red Winter wheat are lowered 25 million bushels with Hard Red Spring ...
UK-Saturn Audio Visual has recently completed the installation of Audica Professional MICROseries sound systems for the new guest rooms at The Pigs in Edgefield near Holt in Norfolk,England.The award winning 17th century The Pigs ...
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The board of livestock in New Mexico,US,has issued an emergency rule to limit the spread of vesicular stomatitis,a virus which can cause blister-like lesions in animals. Under the rule,all livestock events in the state,such as fairs and ...
Tags: vesicular stomatitis, virus, CVI
In the first half of 2012, faced with the complicated and volatile economic environment at home and abroad, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council committed to the general tone of progressing steadily, correctly handled the ...
Tags: GDP, grain, ork, beef, mutton, poultry, Industrial Production