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Monday, November 24, 2008

China to Launch New Round of Grain Purchase for Reserve
China is expected to add grain purchase for reserve and offer subsidies to soybean processing companies in a bid to stabilize planting area of farm products, revealed a source to China Business News. According to the source, China will purchase 1.5 million tons of soybean in northeastern areas, m... Continued...

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Experts: Half World Faces Water Shortage by 2080
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Half the world's population could face a shortage of clean water by 2080 because of climate change, experts warned Tuesday. Wong Poh Poh, a professor at the National University of Singapore, told a regional conference that global warming was disrupting water flow patterns... Continued...

US says will work with China on product safety
BEIJING (AP) — The United States, preparing to open its first Food and Drug Administration offices outside the country, said Tuesday that it has embarked on a new strategy with Beijing to ensure that Chinese products imported into the U.S. are safe. Worries about the quality of Chinese exports to... Continued...

Monday, November 17, 2008

Our Home-Grown Melamine Problem
CHINA�S food supply appears to be awash in the industrial chemical melamine. Dangerous levels have been detected not only in milk and eggs, but also in chicken feed and wheat gluten, meaning that melamine is almost impossible to avoid in processed foods. Melamine in baby formula has killed at leas... Continued...

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Report Sees New Pollution Threat
BEIJING — A noxious cocktail of soot, smog and toxic chemicals is blotting out the sun, fouling the lungs of millions of people and altering weather patterns in large parts of Asia, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations. The byproduct of automobiles, slash-and-burn agricul... Continued...

Report Sees New Pollution Threat
BEIJING — A noxious cocktail of soot, smog and toxic chemicals is blotting out the sun, fouling the lungs of millions of people and altering weather patterns in large parts of Asia, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations. The byproduct of automobiles, slash-and-burn agricul... Continued...

Monday, November 3, 2008

Bretton Woods is dead
President Bush has taken a welcome step by inviting the G-20 to Washington on November 15 to discuss the global financial crisis. This meeting should put in place a stability package that includes the developing countries and lays the groundwork for the creation of a new multilateral financial archi... Continued...