China has announced a new plan to markedly improve food safety in the country within three years.This move comes in response to several food safety scares that have hit the country over the past few years. Under the plan,China will set up ...
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A jury in San Francisco on Tuesday decided to fine Toshiba?$87 million for colluding with other vendors to keep LCD prices artificially high, but the Tokyo-based company doesn't expect to have to pay anything. U.S. antitrust law calls for ...
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Philippines has banned mercury-tainted infant formula from China,as a part of its effort to ensure food safety in the country. This move comes after China's product quality watchdog's recent announcement that high levels of mercury were ...
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Germany-As a premium manufacturer of microphones,headphones and wireless transmission systems,Sennheiser is intensifying its global commitment to fighting product piracy.The clear focus of all measures is the protection of both customer and ...
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IDG News Service-Microsoft has won a motion to dismiss a seven-year-old,$1.3 billion lawsuit from Novell charging Microsoft with illegal antitrust actions around its Windows 95 release. In his ruling,U.S.District Judge Frederick Motz ...
Optics societies press Iran to release PhD student 12 Jun 2012 Letter co-signed by presidents of SPIE,OSA,EOS and ICO urges Iranian government to overturn Omid Kokabee's ten-year jail sentence. Omid Kokabee The presidents of four ...
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A swathe of results releases this week highlighted the ongoing difficulties of operating in the current economic climate. Supervalu announced that it is cutting 2,500 jobs from its Albertsons chain and McCain said that it is quitting pizza ...
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WASHINGTON — The House Natural Resources Committee voted 25-19 on Thursday to amend the Lacey Act and significantly alter the illegal logging amendments added to the century-old law in 2008.al Opponents of H.R. 3210 said that the ...
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SolarWorld welcomes decision on anti-dumping duties on solar products from China Press release,May 25;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Friday 25 May 2012]SolarWorld AG,a Germany-based solar firm that has branch offices in the US,welcomes the ...
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The Islamabad High Court(IHC)was moved against the execution of a contract for installing 65,000 Light Emitting Diode(LED)streetlights in Islamabad worth Rs6.8 billion by the Capital Development Authority(CDA)to the M/s Oslo lighting ...
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China government focuses on illegal imports of waste materials that carry polysilicon Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Wednesday 23 May 2012]The price of polysilicon in China has been low causing many firms to shut down ...
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David Seeger,President of JMC Steel Group,highlights why he thinks the future is bright for the US energy pipe market. David Seeger began his career in 1979 with UNR-Leavitt in the Sales&Marketing group,then moved to Welded Tube Company ...
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A new strategy aimed at monitoring the supply chain of timber products using genetic and stable isotope markers will play a vital role in international efforts to combat illegal logging, say scientists, policy analysts and forestry experts ...
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High-intensity discharge lamps (HID lamps) are a type of electrical lamp which produces light by means of an electric arc between tungsten electrodes housed inside a translucent or transparent fused quartz or fused alumina arc tube. This ...
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Ghana is currently considering importing logs from Cameroon after losing its forest cover, which stood at 8.2 million hectares a little over a century ago. Ghana’s primary rainforest has reduced by 90 percent over the past few years, ...
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