China Southern Airlines Wednesday became the first airline to operate a year-round direct link between the Chinese mainland and New Zealand's South Island. The new three-times-a-week service officially opened when a Boeing 787 Dreamliner ...
Just before Christmas, NSW Premier, Mike Baird, and the Environment Minister, Rob Stokes, wrote to the National Packaging Covenant Industry Association (NPCIA)’s chairman, Grant Musgrove, and Coca-Cola Amatil managing director, Barry ...
Tags: packaging waste litter, recycling, Packaging
The Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan is planning to harvest more than 1.05 million tons of cotton in 2014-15 by sowing seeds on 545,000 hectares of land, reports the State News Agency of Turkmenistan. At a meeting of the Cabinet ...
Tags: Cotton, Turkmenistan, cotton seeds
Israel's Supreme Court has given the government 15 days to respond to an appeal by four Knesset members and four environmental and political organizations against the government's authority to decide on the export of offshore gas reserves, ...
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A Malaysian court dismissed an appeal against a temporary operating licence for Lynas Corp (ASX:LYC), an Australian rare earth miner, despite residents' opposition over alleged radioactive hazards, Channel New Asia reports. The decision ...
Tags: Asia, Australia, China, Lynas Corp, Lynas Corporation Ltd., Malaysia
Barely two weeks after Lynas (ASX:LYC) began production at its Malaysian processing plant in the face of protests and after a protracted legal battle, the Australian rare earths miner is once again in crisis. The company's shares – ...
Tags: Lynas, Metallurgy, Mineral Energy
ANSA reported that two Italian cabinet ministers said that the outgoing technical government aims to shepherd through parliament the so called "ILVA decree", in addition to reforms laid out in next year's budget, before it is dissolved for ...
Cotton Australia (CA) had formal talks with the Deputy Premier and three Cabinet Ministers during the recent Community Cabinet meeting at Goondiwindi. CA's Queensland Policy Manager, Michael Murray, discussed the regional planning ...
Tags: Cotton Australia, Cabinet Ministers, Development Plans