China is looking forward to a China-Australia free trade agreement being signed this year, President Xi Jinping said when meeting with Australian Governor-General Peter Cosgrove on Monday. "The two sides should work to sign and approve ...
Ram Truck has unveiled Texas Ranger concept truck to commemorate the company’s partnership with Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum and the law-enforcement agency. The company has given the truck a Texas Ranger badging design which ...
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Scott and Scott is claiming that the supermarket giant’s overstatement of its profits last year, caused a “permanent destruction of value to shareholders.” Tesco is facing potential legal action from UK shareholders ...
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A series of 14 peer reviewed research papers have found that plain cigarette packaging in Australia has been a success as it has reduced the appeal of smoking among adolescents and also prompted smokers to quit. The findings of the ...
China watchers in Washington welcomed the news that the number of small-business registrations in China has risen by almost 50 percent. "Generally, it's a very positive sign," Nicholas Lardy, the Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow at the ...
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Investment group CorpAcq has forayed into the packaging industry with the acquisition of UK-based Northern Packaging for an undisclosed amount. Based in Altrincham, Northern Packaging operates from two sites in Skelmersdale, West ...
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Britain’s MPs have voted in favour of the introduction of plain standardised cigarette packaging from May 2016. Once implemented, England will be the third country to introduce such a law after Australia and Ireland. While this ...
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28nm is still the last node of Moore’s Law, says Zvi Or-Bach of MonolithiC 3D Inc., who beats the drum for monolithic 3D. “Samsung and smartphones in general look to be in trouble and that’s bad news for the electronics ...
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China's two largest trainmakers, CSR Corp and CNR Corp, inched one step closer to their impending merger after getting necessary approvals from overseas antitrust authorities, according to company announcements on Wednesday. The merger ...
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US envoy to Bangladesh, Marcia Bernicat said her country would support the vision of the Bangladesh apparel export sector to reach US$ 50 billion in exports by 2021. "We will continue to work with Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and ...
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Chinese steelmakers are facing more headwinds this year as economic growth slows and need government support to tackle long-term overcapacity, the chairman of Anshan Iron & Steel Group said. China's steel sector has been struggling with ...
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Chinese leaders and economists have said China must up its game to boost export growth against the backdrop of an anemic global economic recovery. SIX-PERCENT GROWTH Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng said on Saturday that China is confident ...
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China's confidence in achieving its economic growth rate of around 7 percent this year is not weakened despite rising downward pressure, a senior official said Thursday. The economic development has entered "new normal" and economic ...
Anti smoking groups in New Zealand are lobbying with the government to speed up the procedure for passing plain tobacco packaging legislation. Last week, Ireland successfully passed the plain tobacco packaging legislation, becoming the ...
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Mexico-based soft drink bottler Coca-Cola Femsa has plans to invest $200m to expand its operations in Brazil. The company intends to use the investment on developing different kinds of packaging such as minipets. It will also invest in ...
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