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Athens, Ga. (UPI) Nov 6, 2008 Scientists say they plan to use a $1.7 million federal grant to make the southeastern United States a leading blueberry producer. University of Georgia experts say the nation has 75,000 acres of cultivated blueberries, with a third of that grown in southern states. Harald Scherm, a University of Georgia plant pathologist, said the region is already well on its way to become the hub of ... more Global crisis leaves mountains of cotton unsold in China: report 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 6, 2008Half of the autumn cotton harvest in northwest China's Xinjiang region remains unsold as demand from textile and garment makers has weakened amid the global slowdown, state media said Thursday. Planters in Xinjiang, China's largest cotton plantation area, are left with more than a million tonnes of unsold cotton, as bulging stockpiles have turned dealers into reluctant buyers, the Xinhua new ... more China rejects tainted imported products: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 6, 2008China said it had rejected over 2,700 batches of tainted imported food and cosmetics in the first seven months of the year, state media reported Thursday, as it coped with its own food safety issues. The products included batches of baby milk formula made by Australian firm Ausnutria that were found to contain a potentially deadly bacterium, the official China Daily reported, quoting the ... more Vietnam PM orders alert as flood toll hits 82 
Hanoi (AFP) Nov 5, 2008Vietnam's premier ordered authorities to step up emergency measures after floods that by Wednesday had left 82 people dead in Hanoi and regions of the north and centre, with more rain forecast this week. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung put local emergency services on alert to strengthen water-soaked dyke systems near the capital city and across the Red River delta, in a statement published on ... more Satellites Helping Aid Workers In Honduras 
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 06, 2008Humanitarian aid workers responding to devastating flooding in Honduras have received assistance from space, with satellite images of affected areas provided rapidly following activation of the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced and 33 lives have been claimed by floods and landslides brought on by a tropical depression that ... more |
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Sydney (AFP) Nov 5, 2008Asian demand for shark fin soup is pushing the animal's population in the wild to new lows, the Australian government and a wildlife trade monitoring group said in a report released Wednesday. The report found that while more than one-fifth of shark species were already threatened with extinction, a lack of government control on overfishing and the problem of illegal fishing were further ... more Nestle withdraws cereal product from US on pesticide concerns 
Geneva (AFP) Nov 4, 2008The world's biggest food company Nestle said on Tuesday it was withdrawing from the United States a Brazil-manufactured milk cereal product that may contain traces of a pesticide not approved for the product in the US. Nestle's spokeswoman told AFP that as no standard had been set for the level of the particular pesticide in the US for wheat, therefore, it believed that it may be asked to ... more More rain as Vietnam flood toll rises to 74 
Hanoi (AFP) Nov 4, 2008More rain lashed Vietnam's flood-hit capital Hanoi and the north-central countryside on Tuesday as the official death toll climbed to 74 after more than a week of heavy downpours. Thousands of people, including children and the elderly, remained trapped in their water-logged homes in Hanoi, where 20 people have died since last Friday in what officials now call the capital's worst floods in ... more China finds tainted Japan soy sauce, coffee 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 4, 2008China said Tuesday it had found dangerous substances in imported Japanese soy sauce and coffee, in the latest food-safety salvo between the two countries. Inspectors in the northern city of Tianjin discovered Japanese soy sauce contained arsenic levels five times higher than allowable limits, China's product safety watchdog said in an announcement posted on its website. A brand of ... more Rains leave 26 dead, 45 missing in China's southwest 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 3, 2008Massive downpours in southwest China have killed 26 people -- many buried in landslides -- left 45 missing and damaged thousands of homes, the government and reports said Monday. Rains that have drenched Yunnan province since October 24 have triggered a series of landslides in the mountainous region, which borders on the Himalayas, affecting up to 410,000 people, the provincial government sa ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Oct 31, 2008Swiss food giant Nestle said Friday it was hoping to use more traditional Chinese ingredients in some of its products, as it expressed confidence in its Chinese-made food amid a toxic chemical scare. A new research centre in China will look into adding Chinese ingredients such as wolfberry and dried fruits into foods to be sold in the fast growing emerging markets, Nestle chief executive ... more China to tighten control of feed industry: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 1, 2008China has pledged to tighten supervision of the animal feed industry, state media said Saturday, amid signs a toxic chemical found in milk and eggs was being mixed into livestock feed. "The ministry will tighten its supervision of the feed industry and crack down on producers who add melamine to their products," the China Daily quoted Wang Zhicai, head of the Agriculture Ministry's livestock ... more China's Three Gorges Dam Providing New Opportunities 
Columbus OH (SPX) Nov 03, 2008China's farmers and merchants should take advantage of new agricultural and business opportunities that could help mitigate some effects of the annual flooding behind the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, according to an Ohio State University wetland expert. The level of water in the reservoir behind the dam will top off at 575 feet above sea level during the coming winter. The reserve ... more ADB funds Vietnam dam resettlement project 
Hanoi (AFP) Oct 31, 2008The Asian Development Bank Friday signed a two-million-dollar grant to help Vietnam resettle ethnic minority groups due to be displaced by a dam project the bank is funding. The 267-million-dollar Song Bung 4 Hydropower Project will be built in the Vu Gia-Thu Bon river basin of central Quang Nam province, a remote and poor area home mainly to the indigenous Co Tu minority. ... more China says nearly 2,400 babies in hospital after drinking tainted milk 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 30, 2008Nearly 2,400 babies remain in hospital in China after drinking dairy products tainted with the toxic chemical melamine, the government said Thursday. Of the 2,390 still hospitalised as of Wednesday, one child was in a serious condition, while 48,514 have recovered and been allowed to return home, the health ministry said in a brief statement. On Wednesday, 90 infants were admitted to ... more
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