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US Beef Protest Draws Close To 80,000 In South Korean Capital
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
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US Beef Protest Draws Close To 80,000 In South Korean Capital - The Huffington Post
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s president said Wednesday that his government will make a fresh start, hours after an estimated 80,000 people gathered in the South Korean capital in the largest demonstration yet against the planned resumption of U.S. beef imports.
Dishing out rice: Rice shortages begin to appear in Asia
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
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Bangkok’s Independent Newspaper
Dishing out rice. More than 2-million tonnes of rice will be sold cheap in five-kilogramme bags, but to stop hoarding, buyers will need to produce their house-registration book. Published on April 2, 2008, The world rice crisis will see the government selling cheap grain to the poor. But, to stop them from hoarding the bargain rice, they’ll have to show their household registration book, it says. International rice prices are skyrocketing. Some countries, like India, have banned exports to make sure its people are fed. Here, Deputy Prime Minis-ter and Commerce Minister Mingkwan Sangsuwan says the government must make sure the less well off don’t go hungry. The household-registration-book demand is to make sure the unscrupulous don’t take advantage of others.
Japan’s contaminated food scandal topples business plans
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
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More here: asahi.com : JT, Nissin scrap plan to integrate frozen food businesses - ENGLISH
Nissin Food Products Co. will withdraw from a deal that would have created the nation’s largest frozen food company because of the scandal over contaminated gyoza dumplings, company officials said Wednesday.The deal would have integrated the frozen food businesses of Nissin, Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) and Katokichi Co.
But JT President Hiroshi Kimura told a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday that prospects for the frozen food business have become bleak.
Questioning the influence of China in the USA
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
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Full essay here: Saipan Tribune
Many islanders interested in the Pacific region have watched in amazement at the phenomenal economic growth of the People’s Republic of China over the past 20 years or so. The MVA is looking at the country and its growing affluent population of young adults as a market for the islands’ tourist sector. That’s a good thing.I don’t normally discuss books in this column but for those interested in the Asian economy of the 21st century I recommend two interesting books, The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman and China Candid by Ye Sang. These books will provide a background on the PRC’s growing influence on the world scene and the United States economy in particular. China alone has a population of 1.2 billion people and a fast developing economy and a growing and affluent market for many consumer products.
Food that comes from clones ?
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Tuesday asked U.S. farmers to keep their cloned animals off the market indefinitely even as the Food and Drug Administration officially announced that food from cloned livestock is safe to eat.Bruce Knight, the USDA’s undersecretary for marketing and regulatory programs, requested a voluntary moratorium in order to buy time for “an acceptance process” that Knight said consumers in the United States and abroad will need, “given the emotional nature of this issue.”
Yet even as the two agencies sought to find a unified message - that food from clones is safe for people but perhaps dangerous to U.S. markets and trade relations - evidence surfaced suggesting that Americans and others are probably already eating meat from the offspring of clones.
Firms closed down in food safety inspection
Monday, September 24th, 2007
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Firms closed down in food safety inspection
Firms closed down in food safety inspection
By Li Fangchao (China Daily)
Updated: 2007-09-25 07:13 Ten people have been arrested and more than 100 companies closed down as officials continue their crackdown on the use of banned animal drugs and toxic pesticides in farm produce. Agricultural safety inspections have been stepped up to guarantee food quality, a senior agricultural official said on Monday.
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