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Friday, 19 February 2010 22:17 |
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 Feb 18 2010 by Sarah Miloudi, Western Mail
FICKLE shoppers will switch from their usual supermarket to save as little as £5, it was claimed today.
Fierce competition among the so-called “big four” grocery giants has eroded brand and chain loyalty, industry figures said.
New research has found around seven out of 10 consumers will scour the internet in search of vouchers to cut the cost of their weekly shop. While one in 10 will ditch their favourite food store if handed a £5 coupon to take their custom elsewhere.
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Calls for 'cancer' pills regulation |
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Friday, 19 February 2010 22:12 |
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 (UKPA) – 1 day ago An Old Bailey judge has called for new regulation on traditional Chinese medicines as a "doctor" who sold cancer-causing pills walked free from court. Ying "Susan" Wu sold the tiny brown "Xie Gan Wan" tablets to Patricia Booth for more than five years from a shop in Chelmsford, Essex. Mrs Booth, 58, began taking the pills three times a day to treat a skin condition but they ended up destroying her kidneys and giving her cancer. |
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Saturday, 13 February 2010 02:36 |
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2010/02/12  By Rupa Damodaran KUALA LUMPUR: Basic foodstuffs like rice and fresh vegetables and part of utilities such as water and electricity will be exempted from the proposed goods and services tax (GST).
They are part of some 40 basic goods and services that will be free from GST, Second Finance Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Husni Mohamad Hanadzlah said when opening a one-day national conference on the GST in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. |
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Obesity, chronic conditions up in US children |
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Friday, 19 February 2010 02:59 |
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 11:15 WASHINGTON: Chronic conditions including asthma, obesity and behaviour disorders have become more common among US children in recent years, with environmental changes and more diagnoses partly to blame, a study published yesterday shows. Researchers led by Jeanne Van Cleave, a doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children in Boston, looked at the prevalence of conditions that lasted a year or longer in three groups of children, starting with a first cohort of more than 2,000 kids in 1988. |
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Ministry keeping tabs on effectiveness of No Plastic Bag Day |
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Saturday, 13 February 2010 02:27 |
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Friday February 12, 2010 TELUK INTAN: The Government will monitor the No Plastic Bag Day’s effectiveness in Penang and Selangor before deciding if it should be implemented nationwide. Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Seri Kong Cho Ha said his ministry would monitor the on-going campaign to reduce the usage of plastic bags at departmental stores, hypermarkets, mini-markets and other shops in the two states. |
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