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Breaking News Sun, 11 May 2008
SUGAR - COMMODITY
Justice   Manila   Philippines   Photos   Sugar  
 The Manila Times 
PASG seizes smuggled sugar
By William B. Depasupil, Reporter | SOME 22,000 sacks of smuggled imported sugar worth P30 million were uncovered by the Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group (PASG)in Meycauayan, Bulacan. | The PASG head... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)
Steel Industry (sl1)
Australia   Business   China   Metal   Photos  
 The Australian 
Beijing's behemoths want more iron action
| THE first ship to load iron ore produced by Fortescue Metals Group will dock on Thursday at Port Hedland in Western Australia. It will leave with 170,000 tonnes of ore, bound for Baosteel in Shangha... (photo: AP Photo / Andy Wong)
Rubber trees (sl1)  San Fransisco Chronicle 
Laos, where rubber hits the road to China
| (05-11) 04:00 PDT Chaleunsouk, Laos -- The rice fields that blanketed this remote mountain village for generations are gone. In their place rise neat rows of young rubber trees - their sap destined ... (photo: creative commons / )
Business   Economy   Environment   Nature   Photos  
 Airbus A380 - Flights - Aircraft /aaeh  International Herald Tribune 
China forms company to make regional and jumbo jets
| : China established a company on Sunday to build regional commercial jets, with an eye to eventually reducing the country's reliance on Boeing and Airbus for jumbo jets, official media said on Sunda... (photo: GFDL )
Business   China   Industry   Photos   Transport  
Top Stories
macaroni-pasta-food /ntf1 The Times
Soaring price of a staple diet
div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited { color:#06c; } | IT'S been a long time since Italians were a force in Manhattan and every year Littl... (photo: Creative Commons / /)
Diet   Food   Inflation   Italy   Photos  
fishing net The Guardian
How the world's oceans are running out of fish
| The future of our seas has never been more precarious. Ninety years of industrial-scale overfishing has brought us to the brink of an ecological catastrophe and deprive... (photo: WN / James)
Environment   Fish   Food   People   Photos  
 The Prime Minister and Mrs Howard with Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness Prince Phillip at Government House-ayt1 The Times
'Eco-warrior' Prince Philip attacks big families
div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited { color:#06c; } | He has championed youth achievement and the conservation of wildlife. Now the Duke ... (photo: AUSPIC)
Crisis   Environment   Food   Photos   Royal  
Hong Kong Stock Exchange The Boston Globe
Hong Kong stock index adds 2 Chinese companies
| HONG KONG—Hong Kong's blue chip Hang Seng Index has added two Chinese companies and removed two local ones, reflecting growing interest in mainland businesses. | ... (photo: GFDL / )
Business   China   HongKong   Photos   Stock  
portrait of an indian family ,new delhi railway station, Delhi, India, October 2007, 102007 Sydney Morning Herald
The delivery we're waiting for
| HONOUR killings, the barbaric male practice of avenging a family's name allegedly sullied by errant wives or sisters, claims thousands of female lives a year in India a... (photo: WN / Guillaume Poulet-Mathis)
Australia   Family   Human Rights   Maternity   Photos   Scheme   Women   World  
 Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar, left, gestures at his Singaporean counterpart George Yeo prior to a group pictorial with Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (unseen) at the opening of the 40th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting at the Philip AOL
Singapore foreign minister arrives in N. Korea+
BEIJING, May 10 (Kyodo) - Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo and his party arrived in Pyongyang on Saturday, North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency reported... (photo: AP/Bullit Marquez)
Beijing   Chairmanship   Photos   Pyongyang   Singapore    
 China Eastern-airlines-aviation-flight (sl1) Philadelphia Daily News
3 hurt in China airline evacuation for fire alarm
| The Associated Press | BEIJING - News reports say three people were injured as passengers evacuated a Chinese jetliner at Beijing airport following a fire alarm. | The ... (photo: Public domain photo)
Airlines   Business   China   Photos   Travel  
 China´s President Hu Jintao, left, shares a light moment with his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkoz Examiner
China's Hu ends 'satisfactory and successful' Japan visit
TOKYO (Map, News) - Chinese President Hu Jintao toured two ancient Buddhist temples and a leading electronics company Saturday on the last day of what he termed a success... (photo: AP Photo)
China   Japan   Minister   Photos   Tokyo  
 Emirates Airlines - Terminal 2 at Manchester International Airport, Manchester, England. /aaeh Khaleej Times
Emirates delegation in Guangzhou
| GUANGZHOU ' A delegation of senior executives from Emirates arrived in Guangzhou to showcase the airline and Dubai ahead of the launch of its services on July 1. They m... (photo: Creative Commons)
Aerospace   Emirates   Guangzhou   Photos   Transport  
 Land Rover Freelander (LR2) 2008 model(sk1) The Manila Times
Jaguar exceeds domestic sales target ahead the launch of new model
| THE Philippine distributor of luxury-vehicle brands Jaguar and Land Rover on Friday said it surpassed its sales target for the first quarter this year. | In a statement... (photo: creative commons)
Business   Cars   Market   Philippines   Photos  
 Coca Cola - Trademark  - delivery van - soft drinks (Mk1) The Manila Times
Coca-Cola, Procter Gamble products banned
| SHANGHAI: China said Friday it had banned sales of a soft drink made by Coca-Cola and two flavors of Procter&Gamble's Pringles potato crisps due to fears they contained... (photo: MK/WN)
China   Cocacola   Photos   Products   Softdrink  
Business & Economy Industry & Factory
- PASG seizes smuggled sugar
- Chinese firms eye Aussie farmland
- Beijing's behemoths want more iron action
- News of USA's demise greatly exaggerated
SUGAR - COMMODITY
PASG seizes smuggled sugar
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- Michael Richardson: Oil prices conceal major power rift
- Surging food prices bite across Asia
- As markets emerge, newspapers find growth
- China launches homegrown jumbo jet manufacturing company
INDIA-FRUIT-MARKET
Surging food prices bite across Asia
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Health and Society Defence and Terrorism
- News of USA's demise greatly exaggerated
- Tear down Burma's bamboo curtain
- China Unveils Jumbo Jet Company
- Solar-cooker project could cut air pollution
The Times Square news ticker displays financial headlines on Friday, Aug. 10, 2007 in New York. U.S. stocks moved toward another sharply lower open Friday after Thursday's huge sell-off and as bank regulators in Europe and Asia injected cash into money markets, stoking concerns of a more pronounced liquidity crunch
News of USA's demise greatly exaggerated
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- Chinese circling Fortescue
- May 13, 1969: Truth and reconciliation
- One day in 1969
- China reluctant to prod Myanmar over aid
U.S. State Department's top Korea specialist Sung Kim, left, and other officers carry box loads of documents detailing activity at North Korea's key nuclear reactor at the border village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas, South Korea, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Kim traveled Saturday back to South Korea by land after collecting approximately 18,000 secret papers during a three-day visit to Pyong
U.S. says North Korea documents date back to 1986
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Media and Religion Politics & Goverment
- News of USA's demise greatly exaggerated
- Tear down Burma's bamboo curtain
- Chinese circling Fortescue
- As markets emerge, newspapers find growth
The Times Square news ticker displays financial headlines on Friday, Aug. 10, 2007 in New York. U.S. stocks moved toward another sharply lower open Friday after Thursday's huge sell-off and as bank regulators in Europe and Asia injected cash into money markets, stoking concerns of a more pronounced liquidity crunch
News of USA's demise greatly exaggerated
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- Beijing's behemoths want more iron action
- Tear down Burma's bamboo curtain
- Frommer: Travels news and summer plans
- Confined, he dialed 911 to go to church
Steel Industry (sl1)
Beijing's behemoths want more iron action
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