The Delhi government has enforced a ban on manufacture, sale and use of plastic bags, which came into effect from 23 November 2012, in a bid to deal with the increasing rubbish problems in the city. The government issued notification in ...
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United Kingdom-based fashion retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S), in reponse to environmental watchdog group Greenpeace's Detox campaign to stop chemical pollution of the Earth's waters, has committed to eliminating by 2020 toxic chemical ...
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Apple has been ordered to reveal the details of its patent settlement with smartphone maker HTC–but only to Samsung's lawyer's within court. The ruling by Judge Lucy Koh means that details of the agreement,and the net payment that ...
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British beef and lamb will return to Russian dinner plates after Russian authorities finally said yes to exports after agreeing to lift their 16-year ban. Russia banned British beef imports in the wake of the 1996 Bovine Spongiform ...
Textile mills, either in India, Pakistan or Bangladesh, do not seem to be scrambling to book cotton stocks in advance despite reports of a fall in cotton production in India and Pakistan, both major cotton producing countries. According ...
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The Hong Kong government has issued a ban on the advertising on infant formula associated with kids aged between 6 months to 3 years. This move is aimed at ensuring adequate nutrition for infants and young children aged 36 months or ...
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Secretary of State Clinton announced September 26 that the United States would begin the process of easing restrictions on imports of Burmese(Myanmarese)goods in response to the substantial and significant reforms that have taken place in ...
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This will sound like music to the ears of cotton importing countries like China, Bangladesh or Vietnam and also to exporters of the white gold from India. Leaders from opposing Indian lobbies – both the raw cotton and the ...
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Meat company Cranswick is conducting"unprecedented"negotiations with retailers,as pig feed prices continue to rise,according to City analyst Panmure Gordon. In a note on the firm's interim results–due to be published on Monday ...
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IDG News Service-Apple's iPad shipments for China nearly doubled in the third quarter,after Apple settled in July a lengthy dispute over the iPad trademark name that once threatened to ban the device from store shelves in the country. ...
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Greenpeace International–an environmental campaign group has called upon outdoor apparel brands to forsake use of perfluorinated and polyfluorinated chemicals(PFCs)in their clothing after tests indicated presence of these toxins.Tests ...
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Low penetration in indoor lighting applications has, so far, been a bane for the light emitting diode (LED) market. However, improving technology and supportive legislation are set to push residential buildings – the largest lighting ...
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1. Tunnel of lights Japan: Display dazzels with millions of solar powered LEDs A Tunnel of lights in Japan dazzles visitors with millions of LED lights, according to a Nov. 10 report from The Inquisitor. There are seven million LED ...
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To promote the commercialization of LED lighting, South Korea's Knowledge Economy Ministry announced in 2006 a "15/30" plan, which means to achieve 30% LED lighting commercialization by 2015. The ministry later announced a "20/60" plan in ...
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Britain's pig producers are hopeful of a brighter future as Tesco follows Waitrose's example in entering a dedicated deal with farmers. Tesco announced today(November 8)that it would work directly with UK beef and pig farmers in a new ...
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