WASHINGTON, D.C. — The World Resources Institute has launched the Forest Legality Risk Information Tool to help wood products buyers assess illegal logging risks. The WRI, an environmental think tank based here, said the tool is ...
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Since this year, timber prices, let furniture manufacturer to unbearable. The fierce market competition let manufacturers to small talk rises in price, and more rising costs, and make the enterprise in declining profits, even the condition ...
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First, it was in the jungles of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Starting from the late 1990s, many Uganda dealers have raided the rich forests of that volatile eastern part of that country and cut down trees in a smuggling campaign that ...
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Japan has decided to extend, for another year, punitive tariffs on tapered roller bearings imported from the U. S. In retaliation against a U. S. Anti-dumping trade law known as the Byrd amendment. The decision to extend the retaliatory ...
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The young man dressed in a dark blue overcoat wipes sweat from his brow as he struggles to carry a 20-meter piece of timber to a lorry. With the timber balancing delicately on his right shoulder, he walks for about ten meters and places it ...
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WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives Committee on Rules could act in the next several weeks on H.R. 3210, which would amend the illegal logging amendments added to the Lacey Act in 2008. The rules committee set Friday as the deadline ...
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THE ENVIRONMENT department has formed two fact-finding teams that will investigate field officers amid unabated illegal logging operations in Mindanao, the agency announced yesterday. In a statement, Environment Secretary Ramon Jesus P. ...
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Government-sponsored cybercriminals are using hacking techniques to steal commercial secrets from businesses,KPMG has warned. Confidential information,including product designs and bid documents,are at risk from states seeking to win ...
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The Securities and Exchange Commission in the US has charged five physicians with insider trading in the securities of Medical Professional Liability Insurer. The federal watchdog accused the five medicos and said that one of the prime ...
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IDG News Service-The Russian legislature's lower house on Wednesday adopted a bill that,according to tech companies in the country,could lead to Internet censorship. The bill,which includes amendments to several current laws,still needs ...
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Megaman are pleased to announced the invention patent has been granted for its Thermal Conductive HighwayTM(TCH)technology within twenty countries. With an increasing number of illegal copies strongly affecting the company's intellectual ...
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Privacy advocates today welcomed news of a possible Google proposal to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges related to its surreptitious tracking of Apple Safari users. The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, ...
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Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has offered to do a deal with U.S. prosecutors, who are seeking his extradition from New Zealand to the U.S. "Hey DOJ, we will go to the US. No need for extradition. We want bail, funds unfrozen for lawyers & ...
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Those bright bluish-looking headlights in your rearview mirror may be from a high-end luxury car that came equipped with such lights. But they may also be a sign of an aftermarket modification that's technically illegal, the National ...
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Chinese and Hong Kong Police have smashed a gang blackmailing gold,silver and securities traders with the threat of distributed denial-of-service(DDoS)attacks. The cross-border cyber policing operation netted six suspects in ...
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