Pork prices have jumped around Australia, but a question mark surrounds the course of the latest pork price rise. There is speculation as to whether rise is an opportunistic flow-on by butchers and processors in response to previously ...
ASX-listed Collins Foods, which owns KFC and Sizzler restaurants in Australia, has reported profit growth for the six months ending the 18 October 2015. Total revenue was reported as AUD$269.7 million, a 5.1 per cent increase on the same ...
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A sugar alternative made from the fruit juice of a small melon has helped one Australian manufacturer create a unique new range of chocolate. Created by Australian health food company Healthy Warrior under The Chocolate Counter brand, the ...
Porsche has revealed the details of its 2017 911 Turbo and 911 Turbo S cars, set to be unveiled at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January. The automaker is planning to launch both coupe and convertible body ...
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FCA is voluntarily recalling an estimated 16,114 full-size vans in the U.S. to repair their ignition contacts. An FCA US investigation has confirmed some vans may have been inadvertently equipped with ignition components that are subject ...
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A Chinese company is planning to build China's first cruise ship, tapping booming tourist demand in the country. Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co Ltd said on Wednesday that it will build the ship with technical support from Italian ...
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China released documents on Monday on electricity sector reforms covering everything from pricing to setting up a national electricity futures market. The new pricing system, which was piloted in Shenzhen and Inner Mongolia early this ...
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The Palace Museum in Beijing is one of the country's first UNESCO World Heritage sites. [Photo by Zhuo Ensen/China Daily] China celebrates UNESCO founding with pledge to protect its own sites and do more, Wang Kaihao reports. Preservers ...
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The 18th-century gilded-bronze chime clock by a British craftsman will go under the hammer on Monday. [Photo provided to China Daily] An 18th-century British clock, once kept at a Chinese royal court, is among a dozen antiquities that ...
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Tokyo-based Solar Frontier - the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – and TSK Group of Gijón, Spain (a business group in engineering development and the supply of ...
[Photo/Xinhua] Sa Dingding is among the few Chinese pop stars who have grabbed the attention of Western audiences. Her 2007 album, Alive, on which Sa performs in Mandarin, Tibetan, Sanskrit and a self-created language, won her the BBC ...
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A rice field in Heilongjiang province. [Photo/Xinhua] The press conference for the grand cultural feature series, The Road of Rice, was held in Beijing on Dec 1. Two episodes of the documentary are expected to be finished before the 2016 ...
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The NYMEX January natural gas futures contract rebounded Monday from Friday's selloff to settle at $2.235/MMBtu, up 2.3 cents. The January contract dropped 8.7 cents Friday to settle at $2.212/MMBtu on the contract's first day in the ...
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LED bulb prices in India are nearing CFL prices, but might be priced down a further INR 20 (US $0.30) following the government’s 50 million LED bulb purchase tender to be issued in the next ten days, reported The India Times. Online ...
The TV series is being made by BBC Cymru Wales Drama in partnership with The Weinstein Company and BBC Worldwide/Lookout Point. During filming in Russia, local production company Globus Film Studio took the decision to install over 1,200 ...