With the spiralling fuel bills that come with the onslaught of winter worrying many householders paired with the range of price increases introduced by a number of energy suppliers this year, many homes are struggling to stay warm and light ...
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Consensus views on a U.S.manufacturing resurgence have largely centered on rising labor costs in markets such as China as the key driver of re-shoring back to the U.S.However,a new PwC US report,A Homecoming for U.S.Manufacturing?,reveals ...
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With the upcoming release of Microsoft Office 13, Microsoft is encouraging developers and administrators to use open Web technologies such as JavaScript, CSS and HTML to build their add-on apps. Microsoft wanted to "modernize the way the ...
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A massive 54 per cent of mums and dads would push their budget to purchase a must-have Christmas toy. However, findings from a survey conducted by ToyNews also revealed that 51 per cent of parents said they're spending less on ...
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Sri Lanka has imposed a ban on rice exports until its harvest season next March, as a part of its effort to ensure adequate rice stocks at affordable prices amid severe drought across country's major rice-producing areas. Rice is the ...
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Queensland’s clothing and textile industry has earned a much needed red tape reprieve after the State Government repealed the mandatory code of practice for clothing outworkers. Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie said the decision ...
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Australian supermarket chain Woolworths has announced that it is cutting the prices of various cuts of lamb by 20%to 30%. The company is offering 30%off lamb chops,over 20%off lamb cutlets,and 20%off racks of lamb,lamb leg roasts and lamb ...
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More than a century after General Electric Co. (GE) built its first research laboratory in an upstate New York barn, it’s wooing Silicon Valley engineers in a bid to connect machines the way Facebook Inc. (FB) links people. New hires ...
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First, starting in 2011, China will implement the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, China's sustained growth and development, rapid urbanization to enhance the period of a year will increase by one percentage point. The country will have about 13 ...
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