Myers Industries has completed the announced acquisition of Plasticos Novel,Brazil's leading designer and manufacturer of reusable plastic crates and totes,for$27.5m. Plasticos Novel offers reusable plastic crates and totes used for ...
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The creators of Chinese folk art come from millions of laborers among the People. They include both "the dexterous-hands" who engage in agricultural labor and the folk crafts - persons who have been completely or partly out of the ...
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Dutch food company Vion has announced its plans to sell UK businesses, which employ 13,000 people in 38 facilities across the country. The company noted that this move is a part of its strategy to focus on core markets in Netherlands and ...
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National Bureau of Statistics of China November 30,2012 According to the result of nationwide sampling survey of agricultural production households and comprehensive statistics of agricultural holdings conducted by NBS in 31 ...
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Mexico has activated a national animal health emergency plan after an outbreak of bird flu affected nearly 1.7 million poultry. Under the plan, strict controls have been placed on the transport of poultry, poultry products and other ...
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering a plan to clean up Diaz Chemical Superfund site in the western New York town of Holley. The EPA's proposed plan calls for the use of a heating technology to treat six areas of ...
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Needlework is included in Chinese folk arts. In the past, it referred to women's needlework-related jobs like spinning, weaving, sewing, embroidering, applique work, patching, pattern cutting, starching, dyeing, and making caps, shoes etc. ...
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Since the Qin Dynasty, China's has been to spring as the beginning of spring. From the astronomical beginning of spring are divided up, and in nature, in people's minds, the spring is warm, flowers; the spring are the growth, cultivation ...
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Baishaxiyue is called "Baishixili" or Bieshixieli in Naxi language. According to legend, it is from the music pieces of the Yuan Dynasty. It is said that when Kublai Khan, the first emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, led his south ...
The global lingerie specialist Triumph International has introduced a new organic innerwear line called Cotton Comfort in Sri Lanka. The collection made of super soft mélange cotton,features two bra styles-underwired Comfort 28 W ...
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Naxi, an ethnic group with a history of about 1,700 years in China, is a branch of ancient China's Qiang group and mainly dwells in Naxi Autonomous County, Yunnan Province. "Naxi" became a unified name after the foundation of the People's ...
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The Maonan minority group is located in the mountainous areas of Guanxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is a traditional agricultural group. Every family used to have a weaving machine and plant blue grass for to dye and make coarse clothes ...
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That the spring man talks about spring is a folk art of talking and singing. In winter and spring, the spring man will drop by from door to door, and usually perform all by himself. Sometimes, when the spring man goes to a block or a ...
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In the Chinese lunar calendar, the Spring Festival falls on January 26th, 2009 this year. From this day on, the Yi-Chou Year begins, and it is also called the Year of Ox. The previous year is the Year of Rat, to which people have a ...
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It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,27 commodities increased in prices, 33 fell and 40 remained unchanged on 03/12/2012.The largest rises were Nickel (2.95%),Hydrochloric acid (2.94%),Bromine (1.27%),while ...
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