The campaign for safety in the Bangladeshi readymade garment sector has received a boost with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, announcing a wide-ranging safety programme by providing $50 million ...
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Having equipment that lets you remain competitive is just as important to manufacturers as being innovative with your products. Having reliable coding and labelling equipment that doesn’t cause downtime (read “losing ...
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China is capable and confident it can maintain the capital market stable and sound, said a commentary of People's Daily, the flagship newspaper of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Since mid-June, the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index ...
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The government has said it has approved the first integrated national policy for developing skills and promoting entrepreneurship at a large scale with speed and quality. “The policy aims to align supply with demand, bridging ...
Pork producer and processor Smithfield Romania has secured $60m in loan from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to expand its operations in the country. The loan amount will be spent on restructuring its debts and to expand its ...
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GE has inked a pact for selling its fleet operations in the US, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand to Element Financial Corporation for $6.9bn, as well as divested its European fleet businesses to BNP Paribas arm Arval. While the ...
Bangladeshi exporters, including apparel makers, will now have to pay 0.6 per cent tax at source on their income from export from the upcoming financial year, as the government slashed the rate from the proposed 1 per cent, according to ...
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China's central bank cut both the requirement reserve ratio (RRR), the amount of reserves banks required to hold, and benchmark interest rates on Saturday. The credit-easing move, to be effective on Sunday, aims to "support the real ...
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The Chinese government is struggling to meet its fiscal targets this year, finance minister Lou Jiwei warned on Sunday, citing slowing fiscal revenue growth. The central treasury received 2.95 trillion yuan (about 475 billion U.S. ...
The Chinese government is considering reform of the individual income tax system this year, finance minister Lou Jiwei said Sunday. China grossed 443 billion yuan (71 billion U.S. dollars) in 2014 from individual income tax, 3.2 percent ...
Ireland-based paper and plastic bags firm AB Group Packaging is set to foray into the US with a manufacturing unit in Delaware. The new plant will make paper bags and industrial packaging products, and is expected to generate around 100 ...
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Sales of China heavy trucks decreased 33% in the first five months this year over last year, and we predict that the sales will recover in the second half year. The drastical decreasing sales of heavy trucks can be attributed to the ...
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Finance minister Arun Jaitley who is on a visit to the US, has said that economic reforms in the legislative pipeline can push India's growth rate above the current range of 7 to 7.5 per cent. India's economy, Asia's third largest, is ...
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Fashion firm, Yumi International Ltd, has chosen Visual End2End suite of software products by Visual 2000 International. Yumi’s commercial director, Dipak Davé, said, “We pride ourselves on innovative design and ...
Chinese officials will undergo traditional Chinese culture education since in September through textbooks to enhance their skills, the Chinese Academy of Governance said Monday. Observers said that the textbooks will complement China's ...
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