Floyd Mayweather Jnr says it took just a week to miss boxingChinese housing prices have surged since March, but they will soon lose momentum and even start to fall around the end of the year, boding well for a more sustained contribution to overall economic growth. A burst of lending in the first six months helped fuel a wave of pent-up end-user buying and speculative...
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China home prices to ease, boding well for economy
Nearly 80% say construction will never return to peak
Nearly 80 percent of people believe Dubai’s construction industry will never return to its peaks of 2008 following the impact of the global economic crisis, according to the results of an Arabian Business poll. Some 39.6 percent of respondents said they thought the market would not return to its heyday, when property prices were...
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Reindeer and moose delicacies in Finland
Just as kangaroo, emu and crocodile meats are popular in Australia, reindeer and moose are delicacies in Finland. Served with potatoes, salad or in a stew, reindeer and moose is the "it" menu item in Finland at the moment. "It is really trendy here right now," said Helsinki-based celebrity chef Sara La Fontaine. Food...
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Restaurant supplier ditches kangaroo meat
Skippy is off the menu at restaurants in Britain after the last major British retailer that sold kangaroo meat pledged to stop. Makro, a cash-and-carry chain that supplies the catering trade, told The Independent there were "a number of reasons" for removing the steaks, including a new meat-sourcing policy. Makro had resisted pressure to...
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FSA signs up coffee and sandwich chains to healthy food commitment
Seven major coffee and sandwich shop chains are the latest catering companies to sign up to the FSA’s healthier eating commitment. BB’s Coffee and Muffins, Caffe Nero, Costa, EAT, Greggs, Pret A Manger and Starbucks Coffee Company UK join around 30 of the biggest companies in the catering sector that are working with the...
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Celebrity chefs’ recipes under fire for high saturated fat content
Their food may taste divine, but frequently cooking up the recipes of celebrity chefs such as Nigella Lawson, Gordon Ramsay and Rick Stein could be bad for your health. A panel of dietary experts who assessed some of the most popular celebrity cookbooks found that many contained recipes with more than 100 per cent...
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Fat Duck restaurant reopens after food scare
Lovers of snail porridge, mustard ice cream and jelly of quail, rejoice. Britain’s most famous restaurant reopened Thursday, more than two weeks after it shut due to a mysterious outbreak of sickness that left 400 people reporting bouts of vomiting and diarrhea. That kind of bad publicity could kill an ordinary restaurant. But the...
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