A coalition of civil society groups and professional bodies in the construction industry is set to launch a major campaign for the standardisation of cement production and importation. Specifically, the coalition said it would call on the ...
Tags: Standardisation of Cement, good strength concrete, quality
China, the world's largest tobacco consumer, is aiming to ban indoor smoking in public areas by the end of the year. As more and more places become off limits to smoking, people find themselves using e-cigarettes more often. E-cigarettes ...
Tags: Smoking Bans, Electronic Cigarette
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) received an "adequate" rating – the lowest passing grade – in the latest audit by the U.S. government to determine its equivalency on food safety standards, according to documents ...
Tags: Food Inspection, Canada's Food Inspection Agency, Lowest Passing Grade
Deep in the forests of Borneo island, workmen from an Indonesian timber company fell a tree with a chainsaw, stick a red tag with a serial number onto it and attach a corresponding stub to the stump. This is all part of an arduous ...
Tags: Borneo island, Indonesian, timber, auditing process, illegal logging
While China's economy has expanded at a record pace over the past decade, the country's economic success has come at a serious environmental cost. Coal-fired energy plants, minimally-regulated factories and large numbers of vehicles with ...
Tags: Surgical Masks, Health, Security, Protection, 3M Masks
The debate over unpaid overtime in the trucking industry is heating up, with a $100-million class action lawsuit launched against Canada Cartage. The law firm Lax O’Sullivan Scott Lisus LLP has launched the suit on behalf of workers ...
Tags: Canada, Cartage, $100-million, lawsuit
The sunny picture of the Bangladesh readymade garments sector has changed and the industry is now at crossroads—the time to act is now and cost of inaction could be high, the World Bank has said in its ‘Bangladesh Development ...
Tags: Garment Industry, World Bank
At the Global Economic Symposium (GES) in Kiel, the panelists discussing the future of central banking warned of the next bubble and the consequent next crisis. "The lax monetary policy of the central banks over the last few years was ...
Tags: Service
The Indian government is expected to require that Indian bureaucrats use email service provided by the National Informatics Center for their official work, as it tries to secure its communications infrastructure. The requirement will be ...
Tags: Computer Products, Email
The XL Foods' nationwide recall of beef products in 2012 over E.coli contamination was preventable and was caused due to lax approach towards food safety, according to an independent review initiated by the Canadian government. In 2012, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Head ten minutes south of LAX on the 405, exit at El Segundo and you'll blunder upon a 200,000-square-foot concrete bunker lurking among the strip malls in this seedy bit of Los Angeles County. The low-slung structure, surrounded by a black ...
Security firm Symantec has found that banking Trojan Shylock – malware which aims to infect computers – is currently targeting more than 60 financial institutions, the majority of which are in the UK. In a blog, the firm ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
German helmet maker Cratoni is taking a second stab in the U.S. The company recently announced plans to re-enter the already crowded lid market in North America, teaming up with SKS USA, which will be its exclusive distributor. At the ...
Tags: helmet maker, Cratoni, helmet
Apple this week followed the lead of rivals like Facebook, Google and Microsoft, offering two-step authentication to help customers secure their Apple IDs against hacking. The new feature is designed to block unauthorised changes to ...
Apple this week followed the lead of rivals like Facebook, Google and Microsoft, offering two-step authentication to help customers secure their Apple IDs against hacking. The new feature is designed to block unauthorized changes to ...