A "tax free" sign written in English, Chinese and Korean is displayed at a shop popular with tourists from Chinese-speaking countries in the upscale Ginza shopping district in Tokyo, February 19, 2015. [Photo: CFP] Chinese shoppers are ...
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RPC Bebo Kristiansand - Food Packaging Systems, a unit of RPC Group, has launched a new packing system to improve logistical and sustainable benefits in seafood packaging. The new system including lightweight trays, sealing film and ...
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The Government of Punjab, a northern state of India, has received 55 investment proposals worth Rs 80bn ($1.22bn) for the establishment of food processing units. Among the interested parties, food conglomerate ITC and Poland's offers ...
A type of "internet+" free offline restaurants have quietly emerged in Luoyang, which look just like other restaurants and offer general western-style fast food. With a closer look, however, customers will notice the goods put in the ...
Tags: "internet+", free offline restaurants, catering industry
Pingyao in Shanxi Province, was China's financial capital back in the Qing Dynasty. But when modern banks stormed the scene, Pingyao fell out of favor and got left in the proverbial coal dust. Virtually forgotten by the masses for about a ...
Buyers of ancient Chinese art will reappear in Sotheby's salesroom in Hong Kong next month. The last time Sotheby's auctioned classical ink art in the city was some 15 years ago. More than 50 lots of ink paintings and works of ...
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Muslims in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region began celebrating on Thursday as one of the biggest religious festivals in China gets underway. The three-day Corban Festival, also known as Eid al-Adha or feast of the sacrifice, centers ...
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Chinese influence in Britain is notable from the late 17th century onwards as wealthy Britons and a growing middle class provided a demand for Chinese goods such as porcelain and commodities such as tea. Chinese culture travelled to ...
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Traders of mined diamonds are divided over how to best respond to the growth of their laboratory-grown counterparts. Last week, India’s Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB) became the second exchange to ban trading of man-made diamonds, ...
Unilever has announced that it has become a zero landfill company in Europe after achieving zero non-hazardous waste to landfill at its 242 factories. The announcement means that Unilever will not contribute to wastes from its premises, ...
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Distinguished Minister Pritzker, Ambassador Froman, Ambassador Dard, Ladies and Gentleman: It is my great pleasure to get together with you in the beautiful city of Chicago and jointly attend the Sino-U.S. Commercial Relations Forum. On ...
Tags: Sino-U.S.Economic Partnership, trade and economic fields, promote reform
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) has worked with the General Administration of Customs, the National Bureau of Statistics, and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange to entrust the Academy of Mathematics and System Science, ...
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The 25th China-U.S. Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade was successfully held in Chicago, the United States, on December 16-18, 2014. Consensus has been reached by China and the United States as follows: Export Control: The ministries ...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) General Council has recently passed the protocol on the Trade Facilitation Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the Agreement), bringing the Agreement into the WTO Agreement, and opened the protocol for ...
The Third Meeting of the Second Phase of the Negotiations on the China-Pakistan Free Trade Area was successfully held in Islamabad on January 6-8, 2015. The two sides had talks on such topics as the implementation effect of lowering taxes ...
Tags: China-Pakistan Free Trade Area, lowering taxes, service, investment