The haste to destroy the world's economy is strange considering: 1) there has been no significant global warming for the past nine years; 2) most of our currant modest warming took place before 1940; and, 3) much of the scientific evidence gathered the last twenty years points directly to the sun as the source of our cyclical warmings and coolings over the last million years. The haste to destroy the world's economy is strange considering: 1) there has been no significant global warming...

A small layer of wealthy farmers have become commercial pig farmers and relatively better-off Chinese peasants raise a small number of pigs as a secondary income. After the decollectivisation of agriculture in the early 1980s, the Beijing bureaucracy left hundreds of millions of individual farmers at the mercy of market forces. At an emergency State Council meeting in late May, Wen ordered local governments to provide food assistance to poor urban families while subsidising farmers to...

The ministry said it gave a local agricultural cooperative permission to export 53 tons, worth $136,000, provided the move does not change the nation's status as a rice-importing country. It will be the country's first rice exports since its liberation from Japanese rule in 1945, the ministry said. More recently, South Korea -- which excluded rice from its April 2 free-trade agreement with Washington -- had refused to export rice to the United States out of fear Washington would pressure...

His memories of his mother include her always working hard at home and on their rice farm for many years, something which he says they appreciate more now then they did then. Professor Prasad came from a rural, rice farming family and countered many obstacles early in his life but he did not let the obstacles deter him from his goals. Rice farmers son excels in academia. Looking after 13 children and providing for them may seem like a difficult task for most people these days but Professor...

DAILY EXPRESS NEWS Chua seeks more info on claims about rice dumplings MUAR: Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek wants the Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) to provide more details on its allegation that "Bak Chang" or rice dumplings, a Chinese delicacy, contained high levels of boric acid. DAILY EXPRESS NEWS Chua seeks more info on claims about rice dumplings MUAR: Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek wants the Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) to provide more details...

No country can rely on imports from one country and so the Kabul administration might have taken this decision to reduce the risks under risk management policy. In current fiscal year 2006-07, the shape of exports to the war-ravaged country has entirely changed with exports declining by 36%, inflicting huge loss on Pakistan. This is an intolerable monetary blow to Pakistan as the market of the said land-locked country had been a guaranteed market, which is now slipping from our hands, a...