A former executive at Kellogg's Australia has claimed in an article appearing in Fairfax's Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers that the supermarket majors Woolworths and Coles could be using supplier information to help develop ...
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Food Standard Scotland (FSS) is considering a package of measures to tackle advertising, promotion and potion size of certain foods and drinks, which would be considered for taxation and regulation in order to improve Scottish diet. ...
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US-based confectionery company Mondelez International has committed to source 100% cage-free eggs in the US and Canada by 2020 and in Europe by 2025. The commitment comes after years of responsible sourcing and sustainable practices that ...
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A Chinese court has penalised two units of US-based food processing company OSI Group with up to $364,875 and sentenced imprisonment to 10 of its employees claiming that it sold outdated products to fast-food chains such as KFC and ...
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The world's stock markets are spiralling downwards. The U.S. equity market fell 10 percent last month. Investor terminology calls this a "correction" not a crash. But prospects don't look good. Big investors, banks and financial ...
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The Party chief and president of China Telecom is being investigated for possible "serious violations of discipline", the euphemism for graft, the top anti-corruption authority said yesterday. The Communist Party of China Central ...
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A Chinese court granted a man who spent more than 11 years behind bars after a false murder conviction 1.27 million yuan (200,000 U.S. dollars) in state compensation on Monday. Citing insufficient evidence, the Xiangtan Intermediate ...
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U.S. space agency NASA announced on Monday it has found "strong" evidence that there is liquid water intermittently flowing on present-day Mars. Images taken from the Mars orbit showed dark, finger-like markings that, typically less than ...
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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 ...
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NASA's Mars-orbiting MAVEN spacecraft has gathered new evidence which scientists say appears to prove its the sun that has been robbing the red planet of its atmosphere and water. Researchers say solar winds are still stripping Mars of ...
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More details have been revealed about a price fixing case which involves eight international ocean freight shipping companies operating in China. The companies include Japan's NYK Line and "K" Line, and Chile's CSAV. The eight companies ...
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Chinese commercial bank must verify the identify of clients when they open personal bank accounts to make sure they are using their real names, a circular showed Friday. The People's Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank, released the ...
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On Thursday, a Thai court found two Myanmar suspects guilty of murdering two British tourists in 2014 and handed them the death penalty. In September 2014, British citizens Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were found dead while ...
Student Li Xiangnan has been charged with the killing of his girlfriend Shao Tong, in the United States, Wenzhou City People's Procuratorate said. Li, 24, a native of east China's Zhejiang Province, is accused of strangling his girlfriend ...
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Myanmar authorities will appeal against death sentences on two Myanmar citizens for murder of two British backpackers in Southern Thailand last year, said U Ye Htut, Presidential Spokesperson on Thursday. The appeal will be made to the ...
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