The release of the new ISO standards for Consumer Product Safety (ISO 10377) and Consumer Product Recall (ISO 10393) has been greeted with enthusiasm from the grocery sector. These two new ISO standards, developed in parallel and with the ...
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The Nissan Pulsar SSS is back, returning to Australia’s hot-hatch scene after a 13-year hiatus. The iconic Pulsar SSS sits at the top of Nissan Australia’s new-generation small-car range, just as it did when it was last ...
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The Nissan Pulsar hatch will undercut its mainstream small-car rivals when it launches next month with an $18,990 starting price. The five-door hatchback arrives to complement the Pulsar sedan that arrived in January, and will better it ...
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Signs that a nascent recovery in the housing sector stumbled in March pushed the Australian dollar to its lowest since mid-April. The number of house-building permits fell 5.5 per cent in March, the most since July, curbing optimism that ...
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THE Australian dollar dropped below 103 US cents for the first time in three days amid falls on US stock markets and weaker commodity prices. At 6.30am AEST the currency was trading at 102.77 US cents, down from 103.54 US cents at ...
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The Australian Securities & Investments Commission's plan to discourage high-frequency traders from using "dark pools" has been criticised by industry superannuation funds. Industry Super Network head of regulatory policy Zak May told a ...
Safety at your workplace is of utmost Importance, especially if you are dealing with a huge human work force and if your facilities have a large investment on machineries involved. Like many other technologies, electrical engineering ...
Ships bound for China loaded 2.09 million mt of coal from two terminals operated by Port Waratah Coal Services at Newcastle port in eastern Australia in April, up 10% from March, PWCS said Wednesday in an operations report. The April ...
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued its eighth report assessing cross-subsidy between the services provided by Australia Post. Australia Post has a statutory monopoly over the delivery of standard letters ...
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Don't be fooled by Samsung's new flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone. Superficially, it looks like its predecessor, the outrageously successful S3, which attracted 40 million sales in six months. The S4 brings with it a bucketload of new ...
Tesla has announced the details of what it claims is the “world’s best service and warranty program” for its Model S electric sedan in the US. Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk says the program is designed to provide peace of ...
A convertible version of the Roll-Royce Wraith will be the next new model from the luxury British marque, according to its boss. Rolls-Royce CEO Torsten Muller-Otvos admitted to UK publication Auto Express that developing a new model in ...
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ANZ Bank's better than expected half-year result yesterday was the trigger for a buying scramble in the big four banks that single-handedly pushed Australia's major sharemarket index up 65 points, or 1.2 per cent, to a five-year high of ...
Local stocks rose 0.6 per cent today as investors piled into banks to take advantage of their dividend yields, and amid optimism that the country's biggest lenders would report rising profits this week and next. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 ...
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Australian shares finished the month with strong gains as the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 climbed to a five-year high after ANZ Bank's $3 billion-plus half-year profit dragged its shares to a record $31.84. ANZ's result pushed up other ...
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