The European Union (EU) is to set aside the equivalent of approximately AUD$365 million annually to promote healthy eating to school children. Meanwhile, Australian governments are lagging behind. Approved last Tuesday 8 March 2016, ...
Tags: EU, School children, Milk
With SXSW Interactive Festival as the backdrop, Best Damn Brewing is launching Best Damn Beer Gear. In the following months, the brand will release a series of one-of-a-kind items designed to help people enjoy cold Best Damn brews in ...
Tags: Best Damn Brewing, Best Damn Gear, SXSW
Ibotta, the mobile shopping app that pays consumers cash back on their everyday purchases, has announced a preferred partnership with Anheuser-Busch to offer beer shoppers cash-back rebates on Anheuser-Busch products through the Ibotta app. ...
Tags: Ibotta, Anheuser-Busch, Rebates, Mobile shopping app
For Nevijo Mance, a vice-president of BMW China, buying a car would always be more than just looking for mobility. A car can also express your value, the group of people you think you belong to. And in the near future, a really good car ...
Tags: Driverless Cars, BMW China, dominant market
The Cancer Council and the National Heart Foundation have released a report claiming Victorian fast food chains do not provide sufficient nutritional information. In the “Investigation into kilojoule menu labelling in Victorian ...
Tags: Fast Food Chains, Cancer
Organic milk and meat contain approximately 50 per cent more omega-3 fatty acids than non-organic options according to a new study published yesterday in Volume 115, Issue 5 of the British Journal of Nutrition. The largest study of its ...
Tags: Organic milk, meat
The first quality standards for pollution filter masks will take effect on March 1 in a bid to regulate the rapidly growing domestic market. The Group Standard on Protective Masks against PM 2.5 was released on Jan 18, with the goal to ...
Tags: Air Filter, filter masks
Department of Energy Resources (DOER) Commissioner Judith Judson announced today at the New England International Auto Show that the Baker-Polito Administration is adding $2 million in funding to DOER's electric vehicle (EV) rebate program. ...
Kale and coconut oil may have been the latest food trend in 2015 but according to a new study by Appetite Communications and Dietitian Connection, these foods are on the way out in 2016. The survey results, based on analysis from more ...
Tags: coconut oil, Nutrition Trends
Australians are their own worst enemy when it comes to sticking to their diets according to a new CSIRO study. Examining the weight management habits of more than 2, 300 Australians the CSIRO found 69 per cent of respondents identified ...
Tags: Dieting, weight loss goals
China's service sector activity expanded strongly in December, a monthly survey showed Friday. The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the non-manufacturing sector came in at 54.4 in December, up from 53.6 in November and also the ...
Tags: Non-Manufacturing PMI, PMI
Taiwan consumers have continued to show lower expectations about future income and investment as well as general economic situation for the eighth-consecutive month in December, said a survey publicized Monday. The consumer confidence ...
Tags: Consumer Confidence, Keep Lowering
China has experienced less serious desertification over the past decade with data revealing that desertified areas have been shrinking, the forestry authority said on Tuesday. By the end of 2014, there was 2.61 million square kilometers ...
Tags: Desertification, Reversed
Young Masamba Issa has just clocked 13 years. The girl who almost lost her battle against malaria in 2008, is now a healthy five feet two inches tall form two student at Boko secondary school in Dar es Salaam. "I had given up when medical ...
Tags: Anti-Malaria Drug, Tanzania
Chinese icebreaker "Xuelong," meaning Snow Dragon in English, is scheduled to set off on Saturday from Shanghai for the country's 32nd scientific expedition to Antarctica. The icebreaker, carrying a 277-member expedition team, will cover ...
Tags: Antarctic Expedition