According to a report in Forbes Wednesday, Vale might have to forfeit $1 billion in investments at the Simandou iron ore deposit in Guinea if the Guinean government accepts the recommendations of a committee set up to review mining ...
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) of New Zealand has filed four charging documents in Wellington District Court against the dairy co-operative Fonterra for violating food safety standards. The move comes after the ministry's ...
Tags: dairy, food safety, food
If get into the discussion of how diverse the services of the alloys providers are, then it will become clear different groups of service providers are renowned in delivering specific components. Most of these components are nothing but the ...
Having a large belly -- even with a healthy body mass index -- can take years off a person's life, U.S. researchers say. Lead author Dr. James Cerhan, a Mayo Clinic epidemiologist, and colleagues reviewed data from 11 different studies, ...
Tags: large belly, BMI, Health&Medicine, weight
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has begun public consultation on its draft guidelines on sugar intake, which recommends that sugars should be less than 10 per cent of total energy intake per day, but that reduction to below 5 per cent ...
Devices that let you watch Netflix and other streaming video services on a big TV screen are popular, but there are limits to what you can watch. NBC, for instance, didn't make its Olympics apps compatible with Roku, Apple TV and Google's ...
Tags: new device, support for ultra-high-definition video, professional apps
For years Beijing stressed that the country’s farmers must grow enough grain to feed the masses. Measures enacted in 1996 called on China to produce 95% of its own grain. That policy reflected concerns rooted deep in centuries of food ...
Tags: Self-Sufficiency Policy, farmers
Following news that iconic electronics and services brand AWA entered administration last month after more than a century in the Australian industry, Panasonic Australia has confirmed that it has withdrawn its ties with the embattled ...
Five years ago today, on March 6, 2009, NASA's Kepler Space Telescope rocketed into the night skies above Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to find planets around other stars, called exoplanets, in search of potentially habitable ...
What do you think of when you heard the word Milwaukee? ?Okay, let me rephrase that because when I hear the word Milwaukee I think cheese, beer, Laverne and Shirley and a sub par baseball team. ?Sorry I had to throw that one in since I am a ...
New brand aims to 'help satisfy preschoolers' demands to have their own technology'. KD UK is launching Tech Too, a new brand to 'help satisfy preschoolers' demands to have their own technology'. Tech Too has already proved to be ...
Tags: Toys
A NHVAS review is underway as part of Heavy Vehicle Roadworthiness Program, following a week of confusion and contradiction. The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator is undertaking the review of the National Heavy Vehicle Accreditation Scheme ...
Authorities are being urged to review road lighting on two stretches of the M65. Following a fatal crash in November near junction 8 - a stretch which is managed by the Highways Agency - the Blackburn Coroner has written to the Agency ...
Tags: M65 Road Lights, LED Lighting
Canada's leading light oil producer Penn West will invest C$900 million ($815 million) in 2014 on its assets in Western Canada, targeting an annual average output of 101,000-106,000 b/d of oil equivalent, CEO Dave Roberts said Friday. ...
Tags: Light Oil Producer, Mineral
Polytetrafluoroethylene accounts for the major share of fluoropolymer market. PTFE is the linear homopolymer of TFE with a repeat unit and is made by polymerizing TFE in water using free radical initiators. The PTFE market is experiencing ...
Tags: PTFE Market, Coatings, Inks