BASF is planning to relocate its global pharma ingredients and services business unit headquarters from Switzerland to Florham Park, US. BASF Nutrition & Health division president Walter Dissinger was quoted by Daily Record as saying ...
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2010 is the Year of the Tiger on the lunar calendar. It begins on February 14, 2010 and ends on February 2, 2011. The tiger is the third of twelve animal signs in the Chinese Zodiac. Regarded as the king of beasts, the tiger's power and ...
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Hairpins and hair clasps were everyday embellishments in old China. During the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasties (1644-1911), women's hair ornaments expressed traditional Chinese thought and culture in exquisite, sophisticated techniques. ...
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On any given day of the week, working days as well as holidays, you will find the people of Nanyang and Zhoukou in Henan Province creating rustic-looking yet colourful clay toys. Children, who like to play with them, call them "Nini Gou" ...
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As handicraft works specific to Tibetan people, Thang-ka paintings refer to scrolled paintings mounted with satin fabric. Tibetan people mount these religious scrolled paintings with satin, then hang them up and ...
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The people at PETA must sleep at night dreaming up scamming visions designed to finagle you–the John Q.Public–to hand over your hard-earned money to support its anti-meat,pro-vegetarian agenda. In case you've been practicing ...
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Animal health and nutrition solutions developer in the US, Novus International has launched a new design in its product packaging. The new bags are made from a durable composite material and hold up better under a variety of handling ...
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California has imposed a ban on foie gras–a food product made from the liver of a duck or goose that has been specially fattened. The fattening of the liver is achieved through force feeding of ducks and geese using a tube-like ...
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A sedan chair is a human or animal-powered transport vehicle for carrying a person, once popular across China. It has different names like "shoulder carriage", "sleeping sedan" and "warm sedan" etc due to the time, location and structural ...
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The Chinese are a bit superstitious, especially while giving the name to the newborns. They presume that the name plays a large part in controlling the life span of the young one. They mostly adopt the principle of Yin & Yang, Five ...
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Canada has changed the import requirements of aquatic animals such as finfish, molluscs, and crustaceans, in an effort to protect the country's aquatic animal resources. Beginning 10 December 2012, the aquatic animals shipments will ...
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BioPet Vet Lab,an animal biotechnology company specializing in DNA applications,has launched IntegriMEAT,a DNA-based program designed to track and identify livestock. The company has entered into a partnership with Southern Natural ...
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Global pharmaceutical company Sucampo has received a supplement approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for updates to AMITIZA (lubiprostone) pregnancy labeling. The approval removes pregnancy 'warnings and precautions' ...
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PGP International has broken ground on a$17.2m manufacturing and distribution facility in Indiana,US,as part of its plan to boost production of speciality food ingredients and additives. The 70,000ft2 facility,which will be located in ...
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For clearly know about the Formation of the Lantern Festival, at first we must talk about the discovery of the Fire in the old stone age. The retaining and utilization of fire Paleolithic-Neolithic ages (about 2.5 million ...
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