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)
The Australian Chinese firms eye Aussie farmland | CHINA'S fast-growing farm corporations may be the next wave of Chinese investors in Australia, joining their already influential mining comrades. | China's Agriculture Ministry is developing a polic... (photo: WN)
The Australian News of USA's demise greatly exaggerated | Will Hutton, in The Observer, on why it is a bit premature to concede the 21st century to China or India | THE fashionable view is that the US economy is a busted flush (but) of the world's top 100 ... (photo: AP Photo / kalpana) ChinaEconomyIndiaPhotosUS
The Australian System transfers funds to radicals | AN "underground" banking system - investigated by the US for allegedly transmitting funds for terrorist operations - is suspected of being used in Australia to channel money to extremists in Africa.... (photo: WN) AfricaAustraliaMoneyPhotosTerrorism
Sydney Morning Herald Kidney market shut as Pakistan cuts supply | A BILLION-DOLLAR kidney bazaar that thrived across Pakistan has been abruptly shut down, forcing thousands of kidney patients to look elsewhere for a donor. | Lax regul... (photo: AP Photo / Manish Swarup) HealthHospitalsMarketPakistanPhotos