The Blang ethnic minority is one of the oldest peoples in Yunnan Province, living mainly in the mountainous area of Meng Hai County of Dai autonomous prefecture in Xishuangbanna. Their earliest record can be traced back to the Han Dynasty ...
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Population and Language: Southwest of the Gansu Province, the area of Mt. Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang, and Salar Autonomous County is home to the Bonan ethnic minority. With a population of just sixteen thousand, they are one of the ...
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The main distribution of the Bai people is in the Dali Bai Autonomous County of Yunnan Province, together with Lijiang, Kunming, Yuanjiang, Guizhou and so on. According to the census taken in 2000, the Bai ethnic group numbered some ...
For three weeks per year, Katie Sweeney gets to put aside her duties as Glencoe's dog catcher and play Santa Claus. Sweeney is in her 21st year as the organizer behind a holiday toy and food drive that collects and distributes food and ...
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For the more than three million children who stay in Hyatt hotels, the chain developed a "For kids, by kids" menu, which aims of promoting "healthy people, a healthy planet and healthy communities." Hyatt Introduces Groundbreaking ...
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Here's help in deciding how much rent you can afford for land. We've all heard the stories about land rents gone wild:$400/acre.$500.Even$550. Corn and soybean growers have been bidding those rents up,hoping to spread their fixed costs ...
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Chicago Argo and US Gulf Coast ethanol markets Wednesday fell to their lowest levels since late September on a combination of a well-supplied market and another drop in corn futures, sources said. Chicago Argo ethanol was assessed down ...
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Hazard analysis and critical control points, or HACCP, is a systematic preventive approach to food safety and pharmaceutical safety that identifies physical, allergenic, chemical, and biological hazards in production processes that can ...
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Italy-based Favini is presenting the launch of Crush, a new paper dedicated to the packaging industry, at Luxepack 2012. Crush is said to be the the first and only range paper made with by-products from organic products replacing as much ...
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(i) GDP Data Henan, a big economic province in China, produced a total GDP of 1,053.52 billion yuan in 2005, which makes Henan Province the 5th province whose overall volume exceeds a trillion yuan. The structure of the three industries ...
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(i)GDP In 2005, The GDP of Hebei province reached 1,009.61 billion yuan, of which the primary, secondary and tertiary industries were RMB 150.31 billion yuan,RMB 523.25 billion yuan and RMB 336.05 billion yuan respectively and per capita ...
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(i)Policy and Administrative Rules Catalogue of Related Laws Foreign Trade Law of the People's Republic of China Customs Law of the People's Republic of China Law of the People's Republic of China on Import and Export Commodity ...
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Tate and Lyle plc has sounded a note of caution on surging corn prices, which could dampen the group's full-year outlook. Corn prices have leapt in recent months, as the drought in the US and poor weather conditions in central and eastern ...
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The US Department of Agriculture has lowered its forecast for domestic corn production, confirming market fears the country's worst drought in almost 25 years has hit yields. The USDA said "extreme" dryness and heat in June and July in ...
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Archer Daniels Midland saw its profits slide in the first quarter of its financial year as the US drought hit corn supplies. In the three months ended 30 September, earnings amounted to US$182m from $460m last year, the firm reported ...
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