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Breaking News Sun, 11 May 2008
** FILE ** An unidentified child carrying AN empty plate of food stands outside their house at the Ruga area of Abuja, Nigeria, in this July 17, 2006 file picture.
Finance   Food   Kuwait   Photos   Prices  
 The Star 
Higher food prices trend to go on into 2009
| Kuwait Finance House, in its Global Agriculture Report, says it expects the rise in food prices to continue and the fight to feed people and livestock to intensify. We present here an abridged versi... (photo: AP / George Osodi, file)
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi - Prime Minister of Malaysia - pjb1
Government   Industry   Malaysia   Photos   Prime Minister  
 The Manila Times 
PM: Malaysia to spend more on subsidies than development
| KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia says it will spend more money subsidizing oil and gas this year than on developing the country with Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi calling for a review of all major proj... (photo: Public Domain / Mr Tan)
Porsche 911  Wall Street Journal 
Today's Gas-Guzzling Exotic Cars May Get Zapped by New Fuel Rules

A Porsche 911 is a marvel of automotive engineering and an object of desire for people who've worked hard enough, and been lucky enough, to have $80,000 or more to drop on an exotic sports car. One th... (photo: GFDL / Cars en travel)
Automotive   Economy   Money   News   Photos  
 Penang, Malaysia - Fish - Fishes - Fishery Industry - Marine - Seafood. (ps1)  NZ Herald 
Dollar value, fuel catch fishermen
| The NZ Seafood Industry Conference gets underway in Wellington this week as fishing companies struggle with the high kiwi dollar and ever-rising fuel costs. | The conference is being held at Te Papa... (photo: WN / patricia)
Dollar   Market   NewZealand   Photos   Seafood  
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Flue gas stack at GRES-2 Power Station in Ekibastusz, Kazakhstan is the tallest in the world NZ Herald
Paying the cost to change the climate
| The Huntly Power Station. Photo / Dean Purcell | What is emissions trading? | It is a market in a new commodity - the right to emit the greenhouse gases blamed for glob... (photo: Creative Commons / )
Climate   Emissions   Energy   Market   Photos  
INDIA-FRUIT-MARKET The Manila Times
Surging food prices bite across Asia

| From the rice paddies of Asia to the wheat fields of Australia, the soaring prices of food are breaking the budgets of the poor and raising the specters of hunger and u... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
Asia   BIo Fuel   Food   Inflation   Photos  
Steel Industry (sl1) 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,... (photo: AP Photo / Andy Wong)
Australia   Business   China   Metal   Photos  
Fish Seattle Post
Author warns about seafood industry
| Taras Grescoe provided an alarming wake-up call on the pollution and environmental horrors caused by our hunger for fish in his new book "Bottomfeeder: How To Eat Ethic... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Environmental   Industry   Photos   Pollution   Seafood  
Polar bear Canoe
Environmentalists, energy companies look to U.S. for decision on polar bears
By Bob Weber, THE CANADIAN PRESS | Canadian environmentalists and energy companies will be looking to the American government this week for a decision that will affect ev... (photo: GFDL / Ansgar Walk)
Canada   Environmentalists   Photos   Polarbears   Wildlife  
Air Pollution - carbon emission - environment San Diego
Solar-cooker project could cut air pollution

Veerabhadran Ramanathan tours the globe to conduct experiments and advise world leaders about climate change. | K.C. ALFRED / Union-Tribune Climate researcher Veerabhadra... (photo: WN / smita)
Climate   Nature   Photos   Pollution   World  
Bottled Water Canada Dot Com
Health concerns and perceptions of purity are propelling demand for bottled water. It now outranks ...
| We've been inundated with bottled water. There are more than 100 brands available in Canada, tapped from springs and artesian wells, filtered, demineralized and reminer... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Canada   Health   Photos   Trade   Water  
 The G8 Heads of State and Government on the pier at Heiligendam cg1 International Herald Tribune
G-8 labor officials gather in Japan to seek environment-friendly working style
| : Labor ministers from the Group of Eight industrialized nations met with international trade union and business groups Sunday to discuss the reduction of workplace emi... (photo: REGIERUNGonline/Gebhardt )
Development   Environment   Japan   Photos   Trade  


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