India on Sunday successfully launched its first rocket using domestically produced booster technology after several previous missions had failed, taking another step forward in its ambitious space programme. The Indian-made ...
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Milk Money Vodka, a new premium imported vodka from New Zealand distilled from milk sugars is an exciting new entry in the United States spirits market from Leche Spirits, of Roswell, New Mexico. To assist with the all-important packaging ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Milk Packaging
The ongoing negotiations for two major free trade agreements, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), once materialized, could alter the US textile and apparel trade to a large ...
Tags: Textile, Apparel Trade
Doctors often neglect to have a discussion with their teen patients about sexuality issues during their annual physical, a new study reveals. This results in missed opportunities to inform and counsel young people about ways to help ...
Tags: teen patients, sexuality issues, annual physical, teen health
Black, Hispanic and Asian physicians play an outsized role in the care of disadvantaged patients nationally. Patients who have low incomes, are from racial and ethnic minority backgrounds, have Medicaid insurance, or who do not speak ...
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Pakistan-based Kohinoor Mills has been intensifying its marketing efforts while focusing on costs rationalization these days, courtesy increased competition from China and other emerging markets which is weighing upon its flagship dyeing ...
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The Vietnam Trade Office in the US will seek to persuade leading US retailer Walmart to source goods, including apparel, from Vietnam in 2014, Vietnam Industry & Trade Information Center said on its website Asem Connect. Vietnam is ...
GU Co. Ltd., a Japanese discount casual wear designer, manufacturer and retailer, is looking towards China for future growth and plans to use the platform to leapfrog into the big league and join the list of global fashion brands. Keishi ...
Tags: Chinese Market, casual wear
In a new study just published in the journal Biological Invasions, ecologists at Sewanee: The University of the South and James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, have documented the loss of yet another major tree species from North ...
Tags: redbay, laurel wilt, North American forests
A bank in Yunnan province has started to provide direct currency exchanges between Chinese yuan and Thai baht, a move aimed at further opening up Southwest China to Southeast Asia. Tourism agencies say there is an increasing demand for ...
Methanex, the world's largest supplier of methanol to major international markets, has announced its regional contract methanol prices for North America, Europe and Asia. For Europe region, Methanex has posted its contract price for ...
Negotiations for the January Asian Contract Price for paraxylene remained slow Friday, the final negotiation day, with neither buyers nor sellers revising their prices to narrow a wide gap, sources close to the talks said. There are four ...
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The famous Washington, D.C., think tank Brookings recently put out a report noting that Taiwan's economy has shifted to a virtual dependency on IT supply chain businesses. The briefing paper, which can be found here, has some pretty serious ...
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Singapore's growth quickened in 2013 and the country will "do well" going forward, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said. Gross domestic product rose 3.7 per cent this year, Lee, 61, said in his New Year message today. That's in line with ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
It’s reported that the Japanese steelmakers are mulling to raise tinplate export prices by US$50/ton to Asian buyers for the first quarter of 2014. However, the Asian buyers can only accept the price rise of US$30/ton. ...
Tags: steel, metallurgy