Campylobacter, salmonella and Listeria are among a handful of foodborne bugs that cost the US billions of dollars a year and blight the quality of life for million of victims, according to FoodProductionDaily.com.
Leading food manufacturers, academics and the US government will be working with a top level Chinese delegation over the next few weeks as part in an international effort to promote global food safety, according to FoodProductionDaily.com.
Denmark earns the biggest share of its national revenue from producing windmills and other clean technologies, the United States is rapidly expanding its clean-tech sector, but no country can match China's pace of growth, according to GulfNews.com, citing a report by the Associated Press.
Container ship charter rates are retreating as a wave of newly-built ships entering the market dulls ocean carriers' appetite for hired vessels, according to Hellenicshippingnews.com.
French designer Pierre Cardin said he is ready to sell his fashion house for 1 billion euros (1.46 billion U.S. dollars) in an interview with the Wall Street Journal posted on Tuesday, according to Xiinhhua news.
The Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong, a luxurious hotel located on the top of the city's tallest building, held its opening ceremony on Tuesday, claiming its title as the world's highest hotel, according to Xinhua news.
New research suggests that ice cream manufacturers could turn up the heat of their freezers without jeopardising product quality, according to FoodProductionDaily.com.
Singapore won the Best Seaport in Asia award for the 23rd time at the 25th Asian Freight and Supply Chain Awards (AFSCA) with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) receiving the prize on behalf of local shipping community, according to the Shipping Gazette.
New Zealand’s medical technology sector believes it could be the country's next billion dollar industry, and plans to hire more than 165 fulltime, highly skilled workers in the next two years, according to Business Day (www.stuff.co.nz)
Australia's Qantas Airways has announced a hike in fuel surcharges on international routes, for the third month in a row, in response to continuing rises in oil and jet fuel prices, according to the Shipping Gazette.
Southeast Guangxi province plans to increase port capacity by 300 million tonnes to 480 million tonnes by 2015, according to the Shipping Gazette, citing Xinhua news.
Speculative demand has pushed coffee prices up through the $3 a pound barrier, taking them to their highest level for over 30 years, according to BeverageDaily.com.
Auckland-based Living Cell Technologies Limited, a company developing cell implant therapy to treat diabetes, says it has entered into an agreement to raise A$3 million through a placement of shares to Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory, Inc from Japan.
The Old World wine producing countries had a much better 2010 in overseas markets than many of their rivals in the New World, according to BeverageDaily.com.
APL, the container shipping arm of Singapore's shipping and logistics group Neptune Orient Lines, has announced it will scan export containers for nuclear radiation at its terminal at Yokohama, according to the Shipping Gazette.
