India is among the three countries in the world where Samsung is launching Galaxy Tab first. The device is powered by Android Froyo, the latest version of Google’s operating software for mobile devices, according to Times of India.
Rex Bionics, the New Zealand company that launched a robotic exoskeleton to enable wheelchair users to stand and walk in July this year, has received further TechNZ investment of $1.63 million to build a second version.
The leading traders of physical raw sugar claim that the commodity is likely to surge to a 30-year high in the coming months, with all eyes on the pending Indian sugar crop output which is hoped will ease supply pressures, according to FoodNavigator.com.
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) has opened its fifth office in China in Qingdao, Shandong Province.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced that global air cargo traffic rose by 14.8% in September, down from 19% growth the previous month, translating into a month-to-month decline of 2.1% when adjusted for seasonal factors, according to the Shipping Gazette.
Chinese law makers last week adopted legislation that would give foreign employees the same social insurance benefits as Chinese nationals, according to ChinaDaily.com.
Deliveries of new containerships have hit 1.29 million TEU this year and will rise to 1.42 million TEU by January despite slackening demand on major trade lanes, according to the Shipping Gazette, citing the Paris-based consultancy Alphaliner.
Representatives of the UK dairy industry have called on politicians to take tougher legislative action to stamp out misleading origin labelling, according to FoodProduction Daily.com.
Cargill’s sweetener experts are set to introduce a lower-calorie chocolate made with patented sweeters at the end of 2011, according to ConfectioneryNews.com.
Food and beverage companies are increasingly ditching bisphenol A (BPA) from food can linings in response to growing consumer concern over the chemical, according to FoodProductionDaily.com, citing a study on safer packaging.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman said China is headed for a “trade conflict” with the US and other western countries as tensions rise about how to rebalance the global economy, according to a Bloomberg report.
Under the scheme qualifying companies will get the opportunity to develop their ideas into prototypes and proofs of concept at a heavily discounted rate.
Beijing had approximately 90,000 people waiting for a place in a nursing home, at the end of 2009, but there were only 30,000 beds available, according to official statistics.
Milk production in New Zealand will rebound by 10% next year to a record high, feeding a recovery in exports – assuming the world’s top exporter gets a break from the poor weather which has for two years sent output lower, according to AgriMoney.com.
UK consumers have lost their taste for beer in the third quarter as supermarket sales slump more than 10%, according to BeverageDaily.com.
THE US Export-Import Bank has authorised a record US$24.5 (NZD$ 32.65 billion) in export financing in fiscal year 2010, supporting $34.4 billion worth of exports, according to the Shipping Gazette, citing a report by American Shipper.
Chinese law makers last week adopted legislation that would give foreign employees the same social insurance benefits as Chinese nationals, according to ChinaDaily.com.
Food and beverage companies are increasingly ditching bisphenol A (BPA) from food can linings in response to growing consumer concern over the chemical, according to FoodProductionDaily.com, citing a study on safer packaging.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman said China is headed for a “trade conflict” with the US and other western countries as tensions rise about how to rebalance the global economy, according to a Bloomberg report.
Beijing had approximately 90,000 people waiting for a place in a nursing home, at the end of 2009, but there were only 30,000 beds available, according to official statistics.
