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Parliamentary Committee Pushes for Cooked Seafood Declaration
Mar 13, 2016A report released by the Australian Parliament’s joint standing committee on Northern Australia last week is recommending that all food-service industry providers be forced to declare the country of origin (CoOL) of seafood served. ...
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CPEC to Be a Milestone in Regional Development
Dec 16, 2015ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on Thursday said Pakistani and Chinese political leadership were determined to further consolidate the all-weather and time-tested Pak-China friendship. The speaker said that CPEC ...
Tags: CPEC, socio-economic development, China-Pak Friendship
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Indian Government Makes Bigger Tobacco Pictorial Warnings Policy
Apr 28, 2015The Indian Government has promised to push tobacco companies to manufacture packaging with bigger health warnings soon. The Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare JP Nadda assured the Lok Sabha that the government would go ahead ...
Tags: tobacco packaging, Packaging
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They Also Planned to Ban Slim Cigarettes and Slim and 'lipstick' Style Cigarette Packs
Sep 16, 2013The EU Parliamentary committee (ENVI) responsible for making recommendations on the revised proposed EU Tobacco Products Directive were due to vote on the proposals last Thursday (5 September). They also planned to ban slim cigarettes and ...
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A Report Regarding The FDI Policy and MSMEs Has Been Tabled in The Indian Parliament
Aug 12, 2013A report regarding the FDI policy for retail and it’s effects on the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the country, titled ‘FDI in multi-brand retail on MSMEs’, has been tabled in the Indian Parliament, ...
Tags: FDI policy, Apparel
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Francois Hollande Will Not Allow Shale Gas Exploration During His Presidency
Jul 18, 2013French President Francois Hollande will not allow shale gas exploration during his presidency, he said on national television Sunday. France currently has a ban on shale gas exploration using hydraulic fracturing, the only current ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Gas Drilling
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Laws in Victoria Should Be Changed So a Teenager Is Not Be Treated Like Pedophile
May 30, 2013LAWS in Victoria should be changed so a teenager who texts an explicit picture of themselves to a friend is not be treated like pedophile, a report says. A parliamentary committee looking at the phenomenon of “sexting” has ...
Tags: Sexting Laws, Victorian Committee, Consumer Electronics
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A Long-standing Dispute Over The Problems Surrounding Kenya's Sole Refinery Is Escalating
May 28, 2013A long-standing dispute over the problems surrounding Kenya's sole refinery in Mombasa is escalating, triggering fears the country could lose clout as an investment magnet for neighboring countries. A financial crisis at the aging plant ...
Tags: Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
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Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on Labour Has Criticized Indian Textiles Ministry
May 9, 2013Parliamentary Standing Committee report on Labour has criticized the Indian Textiles Ministry for its failure to use the budgetary grant of Rs. 70 billion for 2012-13, which was later revised to Rs. 45 billion. In its report submitted ...
Tags: Textiles Ministry, Textiles
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A Committee Is to Be Formed to Solve The Problems of The Employees
Feb 25, 2013MP Suzan al-Saad, a member of the Oil and Energy Parliamentary Committee, has announced that a committee is to be formed to solve the problems of the employees at the South Oil Company (SOC), who have been protesting against working ...
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Dollar Rallied Strongly After RBA Signalled It Might Be Done Cutting Interest Rates
Feb 25, 2013The dollar rallied strongly today after the Reserve Bank of Australia signalled it might be done cutting interest rates. At 4.30pm AEDT, the Aussie was trading at $US1.0310, up from $US1.0238 late yesterday. It traded as high as $US1.0323 ...
Tags: Reserve Bank of Australia, currency, dollar
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Australian Dollar Was Lower as The US Dollar Strengthened
Feb 19, 2013The Australian dollar was lower yesterday as the US dollar strengthened after the Group of 20 industrial and developing countries fell short at the weekend of openly criticising governments that seek to deliberately devalue their ...
Tags: Aussie dollar, yen, US dollar
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Canada Credit Fix Offered Its Services to The Canadian Government
Feb 11, 2013February 1, 2013 -- Canada Credit Fix, Canada’s leading credit restoration and debt settlement specialists, has recently offered its services to the Canadian government in response to a recent loss of student loans data. The loss of ...
Tags: Canada Credit, Loan Victims, Service
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Yahoo, Facebook and German Online Startups Would Allow Publisher to Charge Search Engines
Feb 1, 2013As German government officials prepared to meet to discuss a controversial online copyright bill on Wednesday, Yahoo, Facebook and German online startups slammed the proposal that would allow publishers to charge search engines such as ...
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NHVR Opens for Business Today
Jan 23, 2013Australia’s first national heavy vehicle regulator, NHVR, opened for business today, initially managing NHVAS accreditation and PBS design and vehicle approvals. Later in 2013, once the Heavy Vehicle National Law is in place in the ...