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Chinese authorities have massively reduced the country's logistics by canceling road tolls and encouraging internet-based freight brokerage.

• Logistics
• China

The Chinese rutile titanium dioxide showed a stable-to-decreasing trend this week. Though the titanium dioxide units in Panzhihua Vanadium and Titanium Industrial Park were shut,

Exports of US cotton are at the second highest level in 50 years. Exports of raw cotton through mid-May were 65 per cent higher.

• U.S.
• Cotton

Qatar's foreign minister on Thursday accused Arab states of violating international law in their boycott of the country and described the United Nations as the "right place" for Doha to seek options to overcome measures imposed against it.

• Qatar
• Gulfood

Opportunities for Minister-to-global business leader strategic dialogue, along with a record number of expert submissions on a wide range of industry challenges and trends, will see the world’s energy leaders converge on the UAE capital

• ADIPEC

Food and beverages additives primarily include direct food additives and indirect food additives. Those food additives which are purposely added are known as direct food additives.

• Food
• Beverages

Changing cosmetic trends is influencing the growth of cruelty-free cosmetics as mass consumers find the testing on animals unethical and have started spreading awareness against the act.

• Cruelty-Free

More than 200 personal care products marketed to children and babies may contain 1,4-dioxane, a common contaminant that is a likely carcinogen.

• Children
• Carcinogen

Almost two years ago, EWG first reported that more than 17,000 adults and children had lost some or all of their hair after using a shampoo advertised by celebrity hair stylist Chaz Dean and sold by one of the nation’s largest direct marketing firms.

• Children
• Hair

The growing beauty products market has been increasing the demand for value-enriched cosmetics. The market is flooded with various cosmetic chemicals. Cosmetic chemicals are the basic ingredients found in cosmetic products.

• Cosmetic

Saudi Aramco's advisers have recommended London for the historic listing of the oil company, with U.S. disclosure rules a concern for Saudi authorities, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

• Saudi
• Aramco
• Oil

In H1, 2017, the Chinese rigid polyether polyol market showed an M-shaped trend first and then fluctuated upwards.

Kirloskar Brothers Ltd expounds on various technologies it has adapted to recycle and reuse water/wastewater – essentially, making this scarce resource go the extra mile.

• Wastewater

Egypt has signed a €1.5 million ($1.74 million) cooperation agreement with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation to develop...

• Egypt
• Cotton

Food in the Boston Public Schools may soon come from greener pastures. The school district has inked a deal with national school meal provider, Revolution Foods.

• Food Additives

Japanese baker Masaru Kuge used to operate his bakery at the Tin Ma Court Commercial Centre in Wong Tai Sin. Kuge makes his bread not only free of food additives but also with a personal touch.

• Health
• Additives
• Food

Polyplastics USA is expanding resources for product development at its Farmington Hills, Mich., headquarters.

• Polyplastics

Dutch shipowner Vroon is finding talks with banks tough going as it tries to navigate a way out of a long slump in the shipping industry. But it is not an easy time for the lenders either.

• European
• Toxic
• Shipping

Sri Lanka's cabinet cleared a revised agreement for its Chinese-built southern port of Hambantota on Tuesday, the government said, after terms of the first pact sparked widespread public anger in the island nation.

• Sri
• Lanka
• China

PPMA has urged the Drap to review its directive that gives six months to drug manufacturers for adopting ‘serialisation and barcode’ for their products, calling the deadline very short.

• Pharma
• PPMA
• Drap