Fish consuming vast quantities of plastic ocean waste The Times Of India SYDNEY: Australian scientists are concerned that fish are eating hundreds of thousands of tonnes of plastic floating in the ocean and this waste is ending up in sea food, a media report said Friday. | Carlos Duarte, an oceanographer from the University of Western Australia, said there was 100 times ...
Consumers are padding their checking accounts The Los Angeles Times With wounds from the Great Recession still fresh, chastened Americans are hoarding more cash in their checking accounts than at any time in the last 25 years. | The defensive stance, uncharacteristic of previous periods of low inflation and an improv...
ANZ-Roy Morgan New Zealand Consumer Confidence July Scoop Friday, 18 July 2014, 11:46 am | Press Release: | ANZ-Roy Morgan New Zealand Consumer Confidence July â€" 132.7. Auckland Electorates the most confident in New Zealand â€" led by Auckland Central, North Shore, Epsom, Mt. Roskill, East Coast Bays, Pak...
Hike in power tariff: Consumers in NDMC areas will pay more The Times Of India NEW DELHI: For years, power tariff in NDMC areas has been lower than in the rest of the city, but the latest tariff announcement for 2014-15 has reduced some of the disparity with a 9.25% increase for these areas. | While rates for the rest of the ci...
Goa Medical College and Hospital to charge for use of costly consumables The Times Of India PANAJI: Patients taking treatment at Goa medical college and hospital (GMC), Bambolim, will have to pay fixed nominal charges for costly consumables used in their treatment. The government agreed in-principle to charge for consumables used by patient...
Burning a hole in consumers' pocket The Times Of India KOCHI: The late arrival of monsoon over parts of Tamil Nadu shot up the vegetable prices here in the city markets. | "Nearly 14 loads of vegetables come to Ernakulam market every morning from Tamil Nadu. There is a 25 per cent increase in the vegetab...
$2 million-plus recovered for consumers this year Tulsa World The agency says its assistance division answered 13,127 phone calls, responded to more than 300 emails and opened 1,788 files between January and June. ...
New York's proposed Bitcoin rules include consumer protections IT World Companies trading in Bitcoin and other virtual currencies would be required to hold enough of the currencies to cover their debts to customers and would have to verify the identities of account holders as a protection against money laundering, under ...
