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 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)
 farming- rice- ricefield - philippine crops- harvest- agriculture. Rice, the principal staple crop, is grown everywhere, but especially in central and north-central Luzon, south-central Mindanao; western Negros and eastern and central Panay. Much of the
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 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 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  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)
China   Economy   India   Photos   US  
 KLdy1 - currency - usd - dollar - us dollar - u.s dollar - united states dollar. (dy1)  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)
Africa   Australia   Money   Photos   Terrorism  
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Dubai, UAE, November 2007 Insurance Newsnet
World's largest Islamic reinsurance company set up in Dubai
ABU DHABI, May 11, 2008 (Xinhua via COMTEX News Network) -- Dubai Group, the financial services unit of the government-owned investment company Dubai Holding, has launche... (photo: WN / Guillaume Poulet-Mathis)
Business   Dubai   Economy   Islamic   Photos  
Shakel Ahmed, 28, left,whose kidney was removed, recovers at city civil hospital as his mother father sit near him, in Gurgaon, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008. Ahmed is one of three people who were rescued by police from the illegal transplant racket that allegedly removed kidneys from up to 500 poor laborers and sold their organs to wealthy clients. 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)
Health   Hospitals   Market   Pakistan   Photos  
 Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma  (rks2) Independent online
'Government does not need ANC permission'
| The South African government does not have to seek permission from the new ANC leadership before entering into international agreements, Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosaz... (photo: AP)
Brazil   Economy   India   Photos   South Africa  
 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 )
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