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Following his return from a stint as New Zealand Consul General and Trade Commissioner in Guangzhou China, Patrick (‘Pat’) English has been appointed Executive Director of the New Zealand China Council. jobs at home A 17-year veteran of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, English has served both in New Zealand and abroad, including roles in Shanghai and Beijing. In addition, …

China Northern Locomotive and Rolling Stock Industry Corp easily outbid KiwiRail’s Hillside workshops in tenders to supply new rolling stock, the Auditor-General says in ruling out an investigation of the contracts. The Auditor-General reviewed documents dating back to 2005 after Labour Party and Dunedin South MP Clare Curran last August asked the body to investigate four purchases of rolling stock …

The independent directors of Mainzeal Group – who also sat as directors on Mainzeal Property and Construction – issued their own formal statement yesterday on the receivership of the subsidiary company stressing the holding company was not in receivership. The statement is worth quoting in verbatim. The  independent Chair of MGL, Dame Jenny Shipley confirmed that, as of midday February 5th …

One of New Zealand’s best-known commercial construction firms, Mainzeal, placed its operating business in receivership as a combination of leaky homes suits and a botched supply chain from China combined to take the company down. sms spy android In a dramatic afternoon on New Zealand’s national day, Waitangi Day, Mainzeal Property and Construction (MPC) was placed in the hands of …

The country’s third largest construction company collapsed and was placed in receivership today after the Mainzeal Group’s major shareholder, Richina (NZ) LP, refused to commit more capital and the bank pulled its funding. Mainzeal’s sole remaining director Richard Yan – who also heads Richina – said that after  “a series of events that had adversely affected the company’s financial position” …

Prices of dairy products rose in Fonterra’s latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, the first since news emerged last month that small traces of a nitrate inhibitor had been found in some of the company’s milk powder. The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 2.4 percent compared to the last sale two weeks ago, the fourth straight gain. The average winning price rose to US$3,598 …

“Parents feel the pinch of tainted milk” was the headline over this opinion article by China Daily editor-at-large Bai Ping over the weekend. It gives an insight into the lengths Chinese parents go to ensure safe foods for their babies and young children. “Although I’ve been coping with the incessant stranglehold of smog on Beijing with considerable calm, recent reports …

China’s Ministry of Health announced on its website that the China Food  Safety Risk Assessment Center has organized setting up detection methods and took samples tests for DCD. write my essays Wu Yongning, chief expert of China Food Safety Risk Assessment Center told a media briefing, dicyandiamide (DCD) can  prevent nitrogen loss and can prevent nitrogen from turning into nitrate to pollute the environment. The substance is among existing registration of fertilizer in China.Currently, there is no official limit on amount from international organizations. The Ministry said the China Food Safety Risk Assessment Center has taken timely measures to detect and test samples after media reports. The Center are consulting international experts,using the results of animal experiments, and the final results are still in process of argumentation. The State General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine earlier said it that it would continue to pay attention to and investigate the tainted New Zealand milk powder incident and asked New Zealand for risk assessment report as soon as possible. “We contacted concerned departments in New Zealand multiple times after its Ministry for Primary Industries announced on Jan 24 it had ordered to suspend the use of fertilizers containing dicyandiamide on the country’s pastures,” Fu Wenbiao, deputy director of the General Office of the General Administration of Quality Supervision,Inspection and Quarantine, said at a news conference. “We will continue to pay attention to, and investigate, the issue.” Low levels of dicyandiamide, or DCD, a low toxicity chemical, were found in dairy products produced in New Zealand. But fertilizer companies have since suspended use of DCD .      

Shanghai Daily reports officials have found no dairy products with the potentially harmful chemical residue that was detected in some New Zealand dairy products. Shanghai Food Safety Office director Yan Zuqiang said the city’s food safety watchdog has done on-site inspections at local dairy product manufacturing lines, especially for products for children, and all the products have been tested as safe. The …

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