British Virgin Islands-based packaged food company Nomad Foods has completed the acquisition of frozen food brand Findus Sverige AB for £500m from LionGem Sweden 1 AB. The acquisition includes Findus' European businesses in ...
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Platts EU 45 sugar FOB containers assessment for November shipment was assessed at a premium of $36/mt above the December (Z) White Sugar Futures (London 5) contract Friday, unchanged week on week. Last week Platts heard the first ...
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Chinese outbound spending has grown rapidly in recent years, and an increasing number of countries have introduced easier visa policies to attract more Chinese visitors, especially in recent months. In 2014, many countries adjusted their ...
With the approaching of the year of the sheep in the Chinese lunar calendar, the "Happy Chinese New Year, Charming Beijing" event will kick off at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills on the afternoon of February1, 2015(local time). The ...
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A corseted Naomi Steinberg stands before her audience perched curiously on one foot, nose jutting forwards. She honks a couple times to inform people that she is indeed the goose referred to in the name of her show, Goose Feather. A few ...
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Beijing is the top choice for Chinese travelers spending their recent three-day Dragon Boat Festival holidays, according to the Chinese National Tourism Administration. Data released by Beijing Municipal Commission of Tourism Development ...
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After 11 days of buzz and excitement, the 40th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) came to a conclusion Sunday, with the film Room winning the top honor and Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig taking the Platform prize from an international ...
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The Platform jury members at the just-concluded Toronto International Film Festival include China's Jia Zhangke, Holland's Agnieszka Holland and France's Claire Denis, all world-class auteurs. The three jurors were only supposed to choose ...
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In Matt McFetridge's words, his two-and-half year stint in China was the "time of his life". The American student, a native of the Finger Lakes region, New York, became fascinated by the ancient country after meeting his first Chinese ...
China is facing a reading crisis, with more than 50 percent of people surveyed believing their reading is far from enough, and only 20 percent satisfied with themselves. According to Xu Shengguo, head of the Chinese Academy of Press and ...
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Twenty-four solid gold ornaments dating back almost 2,000 years were returned to China without compensation on Monday, on the grounds that they had been looted from tombs in Gansu province and held by French collectors. Following a similar ...
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China may submit Wolf Totem, a co-production between China and France, as its 2016 Academy Awards best foreign language film entry after it was announced that another contender lost the bid late Tuesday. The producers of Mountains May ...
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Have you seen the portrait of Mona Lisa or Van Gogh grown the skin of apples? Recently, 1,000 art apples from Moselle of France have debuted in Shanghai and during the National Day holiday, these apples will be displayed in Chenshan ...
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More than 30 poets from China and abroad, including Germany, France, Iran and the United States, gathered at Beijing's China Millennium Monument on Sunday to celebrate the annual Mid-autumn festival and recite their works about the moon at ...
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No matter what soothes your soul, the classic or beyond the mainstream, come and be spoiled for choice at the Beijing Music Festival, says Chen Jie. For music lovers, Beijing has too many choices, from high-brow classical to underground ...
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