India blows up a monsoon Asia Times | By M K Bhadrakumar | It cuts both ways when an unelected politician heads the government in a democratic country. On the one hand, he may not be adept at the politicking that becomes essential, especially when he leads a coalition government. But on the other hand, unlike a grassroots politician, ...
Tesco bows to pressure and bans food from Zimbabwe after sham election The Daily Mail | Tesco bowed to public pressure last night by agreeing to take food produced in Zimbabwe off its shelves in the wake of Robert Mugabe's sham election. | The retailer - which was widely condemned last week for suggesting starving Zimbabweans would not want to eat the vegetables it exports from the c...
CFIF to reposition Cebu X exhibit Inquirer | CEBU CITY, Philippines - A business support organization for furniture and furnishing companies is not giving up on holding the annual furniture show despite slow industry growth in the last two years. | 'Although it is not business as usual, it is...
Tesco bows to pressure and bans food from Zimbabwe after sham election The Daily Mail | Tesco bowed to public pressure last night by agreeing to take food produced in Zimbabwe off its shelves in the wake of Robert Mugabe's sham election. | The retailer - which was widely condemned last week for suggesting starving Zimbabweans would no...
No public criticism for Mugabe at African summit San Diego SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe entered an African summit accompanied by the meeting's host Monday, a sign that African leaders won't shun him despite Western demands they take a tough stance over his re-election in a tainted...
No public criticism for Mugabe at African summit Houston Chronicle TOOLS | SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe entered an African summit accompanied by the meeting's host Monday, a sign that African leaders won't shun him despite Western demands they take a tough stance over his re-election in a...
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Greener and leaner - how the west could stave off disaster The Guardian | From Egypt to the Philippines, from Scotland to China, the Guardian has this week highlighted the dramatic effect of spiralling food prices. But what can be done to tackle the cr...
Food crisis threatens 22 countries, U.N. says CNN | ROME, Italy (AP) -- Twenty-two nations are particularly threatened by the global food crisis that has seen soaring prices increase hunger, leading to protests and riots in some c...
Defuse this crisis The Miami Herald | Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution, has said: ``Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social just...
Corporate News Arab News | Arab News | GBCORP | Global Banking Corporation B.S.C (c) (GBCORP) has become a key contributor to Bahrain's Waqf Fund for research, education and training in Islamic Finance, established by the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) and other Islamic finan...
State editorial roundup Houston Chronicle TOOLS | - A sampling of editorial opinion around Texas: | June 23 | The Dallas Morning News on food prices: | Policymakers around the world are beginning a conversation about rising food prices, the ones that risk creating great instability in countr...
State editorial roundup Examiner | A sampling of editorial opinion around Texas: | June 23 | The Dallas Morning News on food prices: | Policymakers around the world are beginning a conversation about rising food prices, the ones that risk creating great instability in countries like...
Property for sale in Zanzibar The Times | It took Henry Stanley, the Victorian explorer, several weeks to reach Zanzibar in 1871; modern-day jet-setters need just 10 hours to get to the spice island, off the east coast of Africa. Now, property developers are moving in: the first residential scheme aimed at overseas buyers has gone on sale, albeit on a 66-year lease, the longest the gover...
Egypt fights to stem population growth The Boston Globe | CAIRO (Reuters) - Red and white banners along Nile bridges and Cairo streets this month were Egypt's latest effort to curb an increasingly pressing problem: a population growing faster than the economy can support. | Since President Hosni Mubarak took office in 1981, the population has nearly doubled. But most of the country's 76 million people a...
