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British cheese banned in China

As a direct consequence of a visit Chinese officials made to a British dairy farm, China decided to place a temporary ban on all cheese imports from the UK. However, the farm in question does not export any dairy products to China. After visiting an unnamed dairy farm in the UK, Chinese officials declared themselve ...
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Coming soon: flying in a luxury apartment

Coming soon: flying in a luxury apartment

Etihad Airways, a Mideast carrier, plans to take airplane first class to a whole new level. The company wants to encompass luxury suites equipped with a personal butler and an in-flight nanny to clients who can afford such a treat. The company announced ... read entire article »
Amazon: best reputed company in US

Amazon: best reputed company in US

Online retailer Amazon has the best reputation among large companies in the world. A survey released by Harris Poll Reputation Quotient revealed Amazon has outscored, yet again, names like Apple, Coca Cola or Microsoft. Online retail giant took home the title for ... read entire article »
Winners and losers in Apple vs. Samsung

Winners and losers in Apple vs. Samsung

The San Jose jury settled that Apple and Samsung both infringed each others patents and both of them are now good to pay. Samsung has to pay its rival $120 million, although Apple initially pleaded for a $2.2 billion compensation while Apple has to pay Samsung ... read entire article »
Coca-Cola drops harmful ingredient

Coca-Cola drops harmful ingredient

Sarah Kavanagh, a teenager from the American state of Mississippi, has won against Coca-Cola in an online battle. By gaining over 260,000 signatures in two online petitions, the teen has forced the beverages maker giant to remove a harmful ingredient from it ... read entire article »
Carrefour wants out of India

Carrefour wants out of India

Carrefour, one of the biggest retailers in the world is planning to exit Indian market. Indian media reports the French giant has been working on a solution to withdraw for more than two weeks. The news comes after Bharatiya Janata Party, who apparently will win ... read entire article »
Pfizer re-raises AstraZeneca offer

Pfizer re-raises AstraZeneca offer

Pfizer wants AstraZeneca really bad. The American pharmaceutical giant announced it had revised and pumped the offer for the Swedish-UK company. AstraZeneca refused about a week ago another proposal from across the Ocean. AstraZeneca has declined Pfizer for a few ... read entire article »
Russian tanker wins over Greenpeace

Russian tanker wins over Greenpeace

Greenpeace activists have failed in their mission to stop Russian oil tanker, ‘Mikhail Ulyanov’, from delivering its first oil shipment from the state-owned Gazprom oil platform in the Arctic circle. The Dutch police stormed the Greenpeace ship, thus allowing ... read entire article »
Arcade games legal, after 32-years ban

Arcade games legal, after 32-years ban

Marshfield, a Massachusetts town, has finally lifted a 32-years-old ban on arcade games. In 1982, two years after Pacman was launched, town residents decided that arcade games should be banned as they feared that they would bring an undesirable element to the ... read entire article »
Ford names a new CEO

Ford names a new CEO

Mark Fields was named by Ford the next Chief Executive Officer. The announcement was made on Ford's official Website. He will replace Alan Mulally and take over as CEO on the first of July. Alan Mullaly will step down after an eight year commission at the second ... read entire article »
Gazprom tanker hunted by Greenpeace

Gazprom tanker hunted by Greenpeace

Greenpeace International is sending a ship to meet with a Russian tanker which is bringing the first oil shipment from an offshore platform in the Arctic circle. ‘The tanker is currently heading south into the North Sea as it makes for Rotterdam, so we expect ... read entire article »
Mercedes joins car-recalling movement

Mercedes joins car-recalling movement

Mercedes has now joined GM and Toyota in the car-recalling massive movement as it has to call back 284,000 cars in the US and Canada over faulty tail lights. According to the company, the tail lights on C-Class sedans sold in the United States and Canada may have ... read entire article »
The Oscar awards for restaurants

The Oscar awards for restaurants

The Noma restaurant, in Copenhagen, received the honorary title of world’s best restaurant yesterday, in a glamorous ceremony held in London. The prestigious San Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards is viewed as the Oscars of fine dining. The ... read entire article »
China finally takes pollution seriously

China finally takes pollution seriously

China is starting to take pollution matters more seriously as the government passed, for the first time since 1989, a new environmental protection law that better suits nowadays issues. ‘The recent level of public outrage over pollution in China is something ... read entire article »