As part of efforts to slash carbon emissions, cut down on light pollution, save money and make Cheshire East a cleaner and greener place to live – the Council is moving forward with changes to street lighting. A new three-pronged ...
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With a population of 27.123, the Nus, calling themselves "Nusu", "Anu" or "Along", mainly live in Lushui, Fugong, Gongshan and Lanping counties of Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Weixi County of Deqen Tibet Autonomous Prefecture of ...
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The Pure Brightness Festival is the time when Chinese worship nature and their ancestors. To worship ancestors is the centerpiece of the art works on the subject. A society of natural farming economy employed slash-and-burn cultivation, ...
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The Lhoba Nationality is one of the smallest ethnic groups of China. It has only 2.312 members. Now they mainly live in Mainling, Medog, Zayu, Khunze and Nang counties. The Lhobas celebrate their Xudulong Festival with singing ...
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The Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) will take its case to Canberra calling on the federal Government to reverse last week’s decision to slash $7 mill from a targeted program for retrenched workers in TCF ...
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Aviva, a UK multinational insurance company has warned that it will slash approximately 800 jobs in its UK operation, as part of its austerity measure to reduce the cost substantially and bring the life insurer on the track. The ...
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Chairman All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Ahsan Bashir has urged for provision of regionally competitive interest rate in the wake of improvement in the economic indicators. He has appreciated the government for bringing ...
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Amazon and Google have gone to war over cloud prices,with both firms cutting the cost of storage by over a quarter. Google began by dropping the price of cloud services by 20 per cent earlier this week,only for Amazon to trump it with a ...
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Royal Bank of Scotland’s insurance arm Direct Line being demerged from the parent company is gearing up to slash about 900 employees, as a part of its 100m pounds cost-cutting drive. The auto insurer has drawn an outline to save the ...
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That Was Then, This Is Now. Fortunately, those 240-day lead times from back in the early 2000s are a thing of the past. As discussed previously, it’s more like half that nowadays. Marketing communications can be developed and deployed ...
Climate change minister Greg Barker The government has released its long-awaited Energy Efficiency Strategy,outlining how it will'transform'its policies on energy. The Strategy highlights plans for a£38 million fund to create ...
As a security professional, justifying a budget for a product that may never be needed is a constant bugbear. So, when you find a solution that will deliver safety as well as save you money, you know you’re onto a good thing. As ...
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Microsoft makes more than$300 on each Surface RT tablet it sells,showing that the company has adopted the business model of its rival,Apple,analysts said yesterday. According to IHS iSuppli,which disassembled a 32GB Surface to estimate ...
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The Dow Chemical Company announced a restructuring program designed to accelerate cost reduction actions and advance the next stage of the Company's transformation in the midst of persistently slow macroeconomic growth. These actions will ...
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Sycamore Networks(NASDAQ--SCMR),whose optical switches and telecom software have powered carrier networks around the world since 1998,says it is shutting down.The company is selling off assets of its Intelligent Bandwidth Management ...
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