Australian High Court has dismissed claims by tobacco companies that the government illegally seized their intellectual property by barring the display of trademarks on packs and gave its approval to go ahead with a ban on color cigarette ...
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Thailand-based Siam Cement Group (SCG) has formed a BHT2.2bn ($67m) joint venture (JV) with Nippon Paper Industries (NPI) in Japan to set up Siam Nippon Industrial Paper (SNP) plant, which will commence operations by mid-2014. The plant ...
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India has planned to implement labeling of genetically modified food from 2013. Across 50 countries throughout the globe, there is either a total ban or restriction on genetically modified foods, though the US is mulling concrete ...
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The French Agency for Food Health Safety (ANSES) has urged the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to classify BPA as a reprotoxic substance. Currently, BPA is classified under category 2 substance, which means suspected reprotoxicity. ...
Sri Lanka has imposed a ban on rice exports until its harvest season next March, as a part of its effort to ensure adequate rice stocks at affordable prices amid severe drought across country's major rice-producing areas. Rice is the ...
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India has extended the ban on import of milk and milk products from China till 2013 over concerns of poor quality standards. This ban affects chocolates, chocolate products, candies, confectionary, and food preparations with milk or milk ...
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China is universally acknowledged as the birthplace of kites. Kites originated in the Spring and Autumn Period over 2,000 years ago. Legend has it that the wooden bird made by the ancient philosopher Mozi was the earliest kite. Later, his ...
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National joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy in a month is to transfer state run combined heat and power plants to the management of the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry of Ukraine. The decision is stipulated in cabinet resolution ...
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There is no proposal at present to ban export of iron ore. Considering the fact that the country has sufficient resources of iron ore at 28.4 billion tonnes and the fact that iron ore fines has limited use in the country, the export of iron ...
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A US court is to review a jury's decision to award Apple$1bn in damages in its patent dispute with rival Samsung. Samsung wants the verdict overturned or the damages reduced,while Apple wants to increase the amount and ban some of ...
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The Agriculture Department of the Philippines has imposed an import restriction on poultry products and by-products from Mexico, due to an outbreak of bird flu. Mexico recently reported detection of avian flu with serotype H7 in three ...
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The government of India has eased the export ban on milk products, especially on milk powder and dairy whitener, due to the surplus availability of milk powder in the country. The ban was imposed earlier in February 2011. The ban included ...
BS reported that Vedanta Aluminium Limited which is facing a challenge to run its refinery at Lanjigarh beyond December 5th 2012 hopes to get some bauxite from external sources in 2 to 3 days. Mr Mukesh Kumar president and chief operating ...
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Japan's health ministry is planning to relax the age limit on US beef from 20 months to 30 months, a move which will boost US beef imports to Japan. Japan's health ministry food safety department director Hideshi Michino said that the ...
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Japan has allowed the sale of certain seafood products from Fukushima prefecture, several months after imposing a ban on the products due to the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Currently, Octopus and whelk, a ...
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