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 Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 6, 2009 
Hong Kong has overtaken New York and London as the largest wine market for Sotheby's, the auction house said Tuesday, after it sold 7.9 million dollars of rare vintage to Asian buyers over the weekend. Sotheby's recorded total wine sales of 14.3 million dollars in the southern Chinese city this year. The figure surpassed those of New York and London, which respectively fetched a total ... read more
Manila (AFP) Oct 6, 2009Thousands of rice farmers in the northern Philippines are facing hardship and going further into debt after a typhoon mowed down stalks a week before harvest, officials said. Swathes of rice farms were laid to waste or heavily flooded after Typhoon Parma scythed through the farming provinces of Cagayan, Isabela and Ilocos with hurricane-force winds and heavy rains. "No amount of ... more
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Raichur, India (AFP) Oct 6, 2009Aid workers used helicopters and boats to try to reach survivors of massive floods in southern India that have killed at least 280 people, officials said Tuesday. Days of heavy rain and flash floods in the states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra have forced close to 1.5 million people to take refuge in relief camps. Authorities stopped evacuating residents and have instead ... more  
Tonopah, Nev. (UPI) Oct 2, 2009 Renewable energy solutions, while answering the energy problems of the United States, also can require billions of gallons of water annually and could cause conflicts over water resources, The New York Times reports. "When push comes to shove, water could become the real throttle on renewable energy," Michael E. Webber, an assistant professor at the University of Texas Austin who studie ... more 
Mexico City (AFP) Oct 5, 2009A low-budget scheme has transformed a rubbish dump in an impoverished part of Mexico City into an urban garden, raising hopes for a new shade of green revolution. Iztapalapa, a bustling borough of two million people within the greater sprawl of Mexico City's 20 million people, is an unlikely place to find an agricultural revolution. But on a patch of land once strewn with the detritus as ... more |
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Buenos Aires (UPI) Oct 1, 2009 Argentina revamped the government's agriculture administration in a bid to calm farmers who are angry over the farm taxation policies of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. The new Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food will take over from an Agriculture Secretariat that so far has worked within the Ministry of Production. Argentine Cabinet Chief Anibal Fernandez annou ... more  
Tegucigalpa, Honduras (UPI) Oct 1, 2009 Honduran troops and police detained dozens of supporters of ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya in a raid on a farmers' organization building in the capital as Zelaya remained holed up in the Brazilian Embassy. The raid on the National Agrarian Institute building dashed hopes that the de facto government of President Roberto Micheletti was softening its position toward Zelaya and openin ... more 
Quang Nam, Vietnam (AFP) Oct 1, 2009Vietnam on Thursday intensified efforts to get food to stranded victims of Typhoon Ketsana, one of the worst disasters to hit the country in recent years, officials said. The storm killed at least 92 people and left 19 missing, according to the latest toll from the national flood and storm control committee in Hanoi. Some areas remained surrounded by floodwaters but military helicopters ... more |
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