The Australian Government should confirm it will support a mandatory code covering payment terms for small trucking businesses, the CEO of the Australian Trucking Association Christopher Melham has said. Mr Melham was responding to the ...
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Harbottle and Lewis's Jeremy Morton takes a look at what Brexit is likely to mean for toy businesses when it comes to their intellectual property protection. Whether it’s safety regulation or data protection laws, the EU has had a ...
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The India International Jewellery Show (IIJS), which took place in Mumbai this week, reflected a cautious local diamond and jewelry trade, even if sentiment was better than expected. Suppliers arrived with low expectations as a month-long ...
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Britain heads to the polls today to decide whether the country should leave or remain in the European Union. And we've got all the information you need to keep up with developments online. Voting is underway in the EU referendum as the ...
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The Canadian government has launched public consultations on plain packaging requirements for tobacco products, in an effort to protect Canadians against the dangers of tobacco use. The ruling will regulate the size and shape of tobacco ...
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Australian governments have spent unprecedented sums on transport infrastructure in the past decade, and while important projects have been built the overall investment has been poorly directed, according to a new Grattan Institute report. ...
Italy is all set become the second European country after France to pass a law to reduce food waste by encouraging supermarkets to donate unsold food to charities. Food waste which costs the Italian economy €12bn (£9.4bn) ...
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Future food labelling and product safety laws could be scrapped if legal pressure from multinational companies increases as a result of clauses within the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. Consumer advocacy group Choice has ...
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A report released by the Australian Parliament’s joint standing committee on Northern Australia last week is recommending that all food-service industry providers be forced to declare the country of origin (CoOL) of seafood served. ...
Greg Cameron Call for an “Upper Hunter Economic Development Corporation” (Newcastle Herald Editorial, March 9) were also made 20 years ago when the region wanted to participate in the benefits of a container terminal after ...
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Twenty-five members of China's top leadership criticized themselves and each other at a two-day meeting which ended on Tuesday. But unlike the attacks, defamation and even insult commonly seen in western political rivalries, the ...
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Myanmar authorities announced Wednesday that a consortium of six foreign group companies, led by China's CITIC, has won the bid for implementing two projects of the country's newly planned special economic zone (SEZ) in Kyaukphyu, western ...
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The Ukrainian Parliament on Thursday passed a bill amending the country's tax code system, thus fulfilling one of the key requirements set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to continue allocation of financial aid to the eastern ...
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The free trade agreement (FTA) between China and South Korea will officially come into force from Sunday, providing an opportunity for the two countries to push forward their already-close cooperation partnership further. Seoul's trade ...
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The Japanese government is set to announce a record-high budget of some 96.7 trillion yen (798 billion U.S. dollars) for the next fiscal year to cope with the nation's dire demographic circumstances and related welfare costs, government ...
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