UK-based retailer Sainsbury has reduced the weight of its own-brand packaging by 7% to 12,000 tonnes in 2010, through new packaging design. The company said the reductions are part of its effort to reduce packaging weight by a third by ...
Gifts in China are given for many occasions. There are a few rules of etiquette in Chinese gifting. For example, the receiver will refuse the gift several times before accepting it. Good manners dictate that when staying in somebody's home, ...
What is the theme of human birth?First it is to know where life comes from;and then to wish that the newborn grows up healthy and strong.Human life comes from mother's body of the universe,which the Chinese believe is as primeval as pigeon ...
Traditional wedding is meant for the union of a male and a female,yin and yang,which lead to human propagation and perpetual life.The folk art works on custom wedding ceremony bear distinctive features on the theme. A ...
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One would normally agree that eggs and naming babies have nothing to do with each other. In China, however, there is a very significant reason for relating these two things with each other. This is the baby naming ceremony, also called a ...
The Tatar ethnic minority live mainly in Yining, Tacheng and Urumqi in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Historically this minority was known as Dada and first was mentioned in the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907). The national census in 2000 ...
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The Jino ethnic minority lives mainly in the Jino Town of Jinghong County, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province. The expression Jino refers to an ethnic group that respects the mother's brother as a prominent person in ...
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Mobile phones are expected to play a significant role in the future of cashless payments in remote and on-premise purchases. Payment companies are ramping up their mobile offerings in the scramble for this lucrative market. ...
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Frito-Lay North America, a division of PepsiCo, is recalling Grandma's peanut butter sandwich crème cookies and Grandma's peanut butter mini sandwich crème cookies as they contain milk and egg as ingredients that is not ...
Supermarket chain Aldi is recalling three varieties of Specially Selected sauces in the UK as the products contain egg, which is not declared in the full ingredients list. The Food standards Agency (FSA) has issued an allergy alert and ...
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Italian restaurant Le Castagne(located in Rittenhouse Square in Center City Philadelphia,Pennsylvania)celebrated 11 years in business by unveiling an one-of-a-kind$26,000 Truffle Dinner featuring some of the rarest ingredients in the ...
UK-based Divine Chocolate has introduced new packaging for its two luxury eggs and smaller 55g eggs,as well as the Dubble Easter products made for children made in collaboration with The Beano magazine. Divine's Easter eggs have never ...
An official has said the launch of glass futures trading in China has been approved and will soon be introduced, China Securities Journal reported on Wednesday. Zhang Yujun, deputy head of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, said ...
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NEW YORK -- Two days after a devastating Hurricane Sandy came ashore in New Jersey and wreaked havoc across greater New York, furniture retailers in the area were reporting store closing disruptions, but no serious damage. However, those ...
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First came the heavy adoption of Apple's mobile platform by consumers whose heavy use of the devices for business tasks forced the IT operations at their companies to support them. Android was the next mobile platform pushed onto IT and ...
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