<h3>Japan’s Potential Radiation Leaves Food Shortage</h3> The consequences of Japan’s recent disasters are starting to have an impact on global food imports. Along with America, Australia and Singapore have now been restricting food and milk imports from there, with Canada set to also pull the reins on its screening. Those living in Tokyo have even… Continue Reading
<h3>Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friends</h3> If anyone knows that fact it’s Tiffany…as in Diamond-buff Tiffany. The company just publicized their staggeringly juicy figures for fourth quarter earnings of $181.2 million ($1.41 per share) which is quite a step-up from the same quarter of last year which was $140.4 million ($1.10 per share). Despite… Continue Reading
Agribusiness in Ukraine is a key, rapidly growing industry. Each year, hundreds of leading global industry participants gather at the Intercontinental Hotel in Kyiv for a conference, “Agribusiness in Ukraine” to discuss relevant strategic issues facing the ongoing development this dynamic economic sector in Ukraine, which is extensively blessed with some of the most fertile… Continue Reading
Brits Not Getting British Jobs? According to official figures, a staggering 80 percent plus of jobs were given to individuals not born in Britain. Last year, figures were 173,000 for those getting jobs not born and bred in the country with only 39,000 (less than one in five) being given to the Brits. Foreign Immigration… Continue Reading
Could it really be true? Is it possible that popular computer-giant company Apple is actually experiencing dissatisfied customers? Well, yes. And no. Yes and no to be exact. The only reason Apple and dissatisfied customers may be used in the same sentence is because their latest product – the iPad 2 – isn’t being produced… Continue Reading
The United States Marine Corps has acquired two all-electric Smith Newton trucks from the Smith Electric Vehicles US Corporation. This acquisition has made the Unites States Marine Corp the first military organization to order Smith Newtons using the Government Services Administration (GSA) schedule. The GSA is a list of approved suppliers to Federal government agencies.… Continue Reading
Clearly it’s not just Japan that has been impacted by the country’s recent disaster. It’s going to have an impact throughout the world, especially in monetary matters. For example, investors and financiers in Australia are suffering too. It has been reported that shares in Australia encountered their “biggest one-day fall in none months… Continue Reading
Again with the crisis in the Middle East; again with the impact this is having on the global economy vis-à-vis oil prices. But apparently all might not be lost. Today in America, it might actually be worth your while to shop around before you pump up your gas. Yet the naysayers aren’t convinced. They are… Continue Reading
It seems it’s no longer humans and cats who are being DNA tested these days. There is now the possibility for testing the DNA of diamonds, resulting in accruing details of “diamond diagrams, plotting of inclusions, photographs (high resolution images), AGS parameters and many more, along with generating consumer confidence in the product that consumers… Continue Reading
An article in today’s ‘Times of Malta’ – quite fitting for International Women’s Day – is showing how the women of Malta are quite capable of succeeding unaided. An EU suggestion of special treatment of women has been rejected by the businesswomen of Malta, who believe that “gender imbalance at work should be addressed by… Continue Reading