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JAKARTA, Dec 2 - - Indonesia will suspend the import duty for rice imports done by state procurement agency Bulog to ensure the grain can be sold cheaper to the domestic market and ease the cost burden on the agency at a time of high prices, the trade minister said on Thursday. ...
Thai rice prices, the benchmark for Asia, rose 2.9 percent to the highest level in nine months because of increased year-end demand, the Thai Rice Exporters Association said. The price of 100 percent grade-B white rice rose to $567 a metric ton from $551 the previous week, said ...
Local media reports in China have quoted official sources in China's National Grain and Oil Information Center as saying that the country's domestic consumption of unmilled rice in the crop year that began Oct. 1 will rise 2.2% to 188.7 million MT compared with an estimate of ...
Local media reports in India have revealed that the Indian governemtn has initiated discussions with their counterparts in EU to ensure that non-trade barriers are not created by private organization in exports of Indian agriculture items to the European markets. Earlier Basmati ...
Remember when we said not everything caused cancer, especially not mushrooms? Um, well, we take that back. A recent experiment by a grade-six pupil in Beijing has found that more than 90 percent of fresh mushrooms in markets are tainted with fluorescent brightener to make them ...
BEIJING, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- China's top economic planner said Thursday that prices for agricultural produce and materials continued to fall from Nov. 29 to Dec. 5, with some varieties seeing big drops. Food prices monitored in 36 major cities fell 0.2 percent from the previous ...
Statistics released by General Administration of Customs of China today show that China's foreign trade has been soaring steadily in the first 11 moths of the year with imports and exports in November both hitting record highs. From January to November, China's imports and ...
BEIJING, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- China will standardize the purchase of essential drugs at government-funded grass-root hospitals and clinics, in a bid to reduce patient health-care costs, an official statement said Thursday. Provincial-level platforms for the centralized procurement ...
BEIJING, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- China on Thursday expressed its firm opposition to a U.S. congressional resolution on convicted Chinese criminal Liu Xiaobo, winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, and urged U.S. lawmakers to change "arrogant and rude" attitude. "The so-called ...
BEIJING, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- China's auto sales are expected to reach 18 million units this year as sales in the first 11 months hit 16.4 million, figures released Thursday by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) showed. The full-year sales projection by the ...
Lingering outside the Changmen Gate to admire reflecting pools, rockeries and the Little Penglai fairyland was all in a day's coursework for a group of Cornell students this summer, as they took part in a new design exchange program between the College of Agriculture and Life ...
China will be cultivating fruit on 500 hectares of land in the Eastern Cape, the province's development corporation (ECDC) said. "Eastern Cape's abundant agricultural land has seen China survey the province for farming business opportunities to supplement its scarce land ...
China is one or two years away from commercial production of genetically modified japonica rice, the biotechnology research director of the state-backed Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences said. The forecast indicates the world's largest rice consumer may be closer than ...
China's top legislature has received over 97,000 comments from the public on the draft law on vehicle and vessel taxation, one month after it released the full draft and invited opinions. Members of the public generally acknowledged the draft's significance in helping determine ...
Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said on Tuesday that Chile is interested in strengthening cooperation and bilateral relations with China. Pinera told reporters that during his visit to Beijing last month, "a new phase" of relations between the two countries has begun. He said ...
China said on Tuesday it would fulfill its obligations to the UN Convention Against Corruption. He Yong, deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) of the Communist Party of China (CPC), made the remarks at a meeting. He said that China would give ...
Two projects that will relocate 2.79 million people from remote mountainous areas in Northwest China's Shaanxi province will start next year and be completed within a decade, the provincial government recently revealed. The goal is to move 2.4 million residents from southern ...
China's Bright Food Group Co. is close to a deal to buy U.S. vitamin retail chain GNC Holdings Inc. for between $2.5 billion to $3 billion, people familiar with the matter said, the latest sign of growing Chinese appetite for U.S. companies. A deal for Pittsburgh-based GNC, which ...
Daniel Zhou (not his real given name) paused, trying to remember his son's age. While it might seem shocking to some, his situation is far from unique among members of Shanghai's middle class, many of whom can not easily recall their children's birthdays or grades in school. They ...
The California Strawberry Commission has updated its strawberry app for iPhone and iPad, adding recipes and tips on nutrition for children and adults. The free app can be downloaded at http://bit.ly/aEIItn. The November update of the software first offered in January includes 50 ...
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