The French Food Safety Agency (AFSSA) has recommended that consumers should be alerted to the presence of bisphenol A (BPA) in packaging via a system of “systematic labelling”.
Fans flooded an official website calling for applications after it opened yesterday morning and demand had reached nearly 90,000 match tickets in the first six hours.
The Association of Asia Pacific Airlines says passenger and cargo traffic volumes are close to returning to levels last achieved before the recession began to hit hard in mid-2008. Careful management of capacity has also helped improve airline assets.
Baidu and a Japanese e-commerce operator called Rakuten plan to establish China's largest online mall in Beijing's Tongzhou district to capitalise on China's growing online trade.
DHL expects airfreight demand from Asia to pick up this year with China leading the demand. Global imbalance of supply and demand will continue into Q2 and Q3, so capacity is likely to stay tight.
Foreigners who invest in South Korea will get more cash support from the government starting next year. Currently, the country provides around 15 billion won in cash support for foreign investments annually.
China’s export orders fell 19% at the opening session of the nation’s biggest trade fair from the same period in 2008, before the global financial crisis deepened.
SIXTY-NINE per cent of those polled by London's International Freighting Weekly said more carriers are likely to follow Japan Airlines' (JAL) decision to scrap their freighter fleets and restrict cargo to passenger bellyholds.
China has decided to impose anti-dumping tariffs on Nylon 6, or polycaprolactam, imported from the United States, the European Union, Russia and the Taiwan region.
