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PA (PA News) / Thu, May 18, 2000 / By Bob Roberts and Martin Hickman, PA News The Government was today accused of "frightening" complacency after an agricultural firm admitted it had supplied farms with GM seeds mixed in with its normal products.

PA (PA News) / Thu, May 18, 2000 / By Martin Hickman, Bob Roberts, PA News The Government was today due to make a Commons statement explaining how thousands of acres of farmland were accidentally sown with genetically modified seeds. Agriculture Minister Nick Brown is due to give the statement within the next two hours.

USA Today / By Michael R. Bonsignore During one of my early visits to China, a woman in our Beijing office told me how proud she was to work for a well-known U.S. company. I later learned that she rode a bicycle 10 miles each way to work.

May 17, 2000 / Reuters/PA News LONDON -- The U.K. government was cited as saying in these stories Wednesday that British farmers are unknowingly growing genetically modified crops after buying contaminated oilseed rape from Canada.

The New York Times / ESSAY / By WILLIAM SAFIRE WASHINGTON -- The most far-reaching vote any representative will cast this year will take place next week. It will be on the bill to permanently guarantee that Congress will have no economic leverage to restrain China's internal repression of dissidents or external aggression against Taiwan.

May 18, 2000 / The Toronto Star / Stuart Laidlaw, Toronto Star Business Reporter Grocers in Canada have, according to this story, agreed that no products on their shelves will be allowed to be labelled free of genetically modified ingredients until a federal standards board comes up with a uniform code for such labels, a process that is expected to take at least another year.

By SONYA ROSS, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - While Congress continues to weigh the question of trade with China, President Clinton is ready to make official some progress on another trade front: Africa.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican congressional leaders on Thursday announced a bipartisan agreement on legislation that would set up a watchdog commission to monitor Chinese human rights, a breakthrough that may clear the way for passage of permanent trading benefits for Beijing next week.