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Agriculture   Crisis   Food   Japan   Photos   Prices   Rice   World		  Business Week 
How Japan Helped Ease the Rice Crisis
With prices now falling, the global rice crisis seems to be subsiding. That's thanks in part to a policy announcement by a Japanese bureaucrat. On May 19, Japan's Deputy Agriculture Minister, Toshiro... (photo: WN / Denise Yong)
A Rickshaw boy takes customers for a traditionally South Africa ride along Durban´s beachfront (mh1)
Africa   Attacks   Industry   Photos   South Africa   Tourism   Xenophobia		  Mail Guardian South Africa 
Township attacks chill SA tourism industry
A whiff of panic surrounds South Africa's tourism industry after deadly xenophobic attacks that have prompted travel warnings from Western nations and led some Africans to cancel visits. Tourism is a... (photo: Michelle Hibbert/WN)
Rice- Agriculture. (sl1)  International Herald Tribune 
Japan prepares to send rice to Philippines
: Japan is preparing to send 200,000 tons of rice to the Philippines and may also provide some to needy African nations, but critics warn that the plans could hurt farmers in poor countries, undermine... (photo: Public domain photo)

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Prince Talal Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud shakes hands with Polish president Lech Kaczynski,, jsa1  Middle East Online 
Prince Talal fights sub-Saharan poverty
RIYADH - Saudi Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz, Head of the Arab Gulf Programme for United Nations Development Organizations (AGFUND) announced a developmental initiative designed to contribute in... (photo: AP / Alik Keplicz)
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U.N. food agency says global rice prices may fall, though likely to remain high
ROME - Soaring world rice prices may begin to drop amid excellent production prospects this year, but overall food prices that have set off protests around the world are... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)
Agency   Food   Photos   Prices   Rome
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks to supporters during a rally in Sunrise, Fla. Wednesday, May 21, 2008. Toronto Sun
Hillary's time will come in 2012
More clearly than anything else, the results of the Kentucky and Oregon primaries show the dilemma faced by the Democratic Party in the U.S. The party's nagging nightmare... (photo: AP / J. Pat Carter)

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Japan to give rice to ease global crisis
TOKYO -- Japan will release some of its huge stockpile of rice to help ease the global food crisis, sending some 20,000 tons to five African nations in coming weeks, a... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Crisis   Food   Japan   Photos   Rice
PETRON - GASOLINE STATION - FUEL - PETROLEUM - OIL - KEROSENE - DIESEL Business Report
Carbon tax tagged as green solution
By INGI SALGADO Cape Town - The introduction of a carbon tax could have the biggest single impact on cutting South Africa's emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)
Carbon Dioxide   Emissions   Greenhouse   Photos   Tax
President-elect Umaru Yar´Adua, center, talks during a press conference at Abuja, Nigeria, Monday, April 23, 2007. The governing party candidate was declared the landslide winner of Nigeria´s deeply flawed presidential elections Monday as the Turkish Press
Nigerian president orders Shell, Exxon to pay oil arrears
Workers aboard the FPSO Bonga off the coast of Nigeria, south of Lagos. Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua Tuesday ordered the state-run oil firm NNPC to recover payment... (photo: AP/Schalk van Zuydam)
Energy   Government   Nigeria   Oil   Photos
South African President Thabo Mbeki, right, and his former deputy Jacob Zuma, left, during a traditi Independent online (SA)
Mbeki to attend AU meeting in Tanzania
President Thabo Mbeki is to attend the first committee meeting of twelve African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government, the department of foreign affairs said on... (photo: AP Photo)
Africa   Discussions   Economy   Photos   South Africa   Tanzania
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At the mercy of rising food prices
Speculation in commodity markets has been blamed for adding to the recent surge in world food prices, which is painful for businesses and consumers alike. Michel Ghanjar... (photo: creative commons / R.Wampers aka)

Consumer   Economy   Food   Photos   Society
Left to right: Manuel Trevor (South Africa), Chairman of the Development Committee of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF); Secretary-General Kofi Annan; and Munir Akram (Pakistan), President of the Economic and Social Council(gm1) Business Report
Investors reassured by inflation target talk
By Evan Pickworth Johannesburg - Finance minister Trevor Manuel's defence of South Africa's inflation targeting framework in parliament would be well received by foreign... (photo: UN)
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South African police detain two men supsected in the death of a third in Johannesburg, South Africa, jsa1 NIA: Violence deliberately unleashed Mail Guardian South Africa
Chimpanzee at Zoological Center of Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan wnhires (js1) European Court agrees to hear chimp's plea for human rights London Evening Standard
Muslim Pilgrims performing the hajj walk outside the Great Mosque of Mecca, Saudi Arabia From Mayfair to Mecca The Guardian
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Politics
A crowd of men runs from firing South African police officers in Johannesburg, South Africa, jsa1 'Necklace' lynching returns to South Africa CNN
South African children stand at the scene of a burning shack in the Reiger Park informal settlement outside Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, May 22, 2008. Immigrants flee South Africa's wave of violence AOL
President George W. Bush addresses his remarks at the annual Peace Officers´ Memorial Service outside the U.S. Capitol Tuesday, May 15, 2007, paying tribute to law enforcement officers who were killed in the line of duty during the previous year an Historians Write Off Bush's Presidency Creators Syndicate
South Africa - Disease - Lerato, 7, left, and Koketso, 14, look outside the window in the medical clinic of the Sparrow Rainbow Village in Johannesburg, South Africa, Monday Nov. 28, 2005. Nearly 70 percent of all new HIV infection occur in sub-Sahara Af A Portrait of Hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa Gallup
Health
Masked and armed members of the Al Quds Brigades, the Islamic Jihad military wing, stand during a press conference in Gaza Wednesday Nov. 15, 2006. The Islamic Jihad and Hamas have claimed responsibility for firing home made rockets on the Israeli town o Palestinian suicide bomber attacks Gaza crossing Newsday
A young girl crosses the barren wasteland to reach Shebele B camp on the edge of Bossaso.jsa1 YEMEN-AFRICA: UNHCR calls for help to stem rising tide of African migrants IRINnews
A South African mob bearing a white flag walks towards police in the Reiger Park informal settlement outside Johannesburg, jsa1 Immigrants attacked by poor South Africans because they are seen as competing for scarce resources. Austin American Statesman
Refugee children wash their families' clothes in Djabal camp. Japan to double aid to Africa by 2012+ AOL
Sport
Paraguay's Denis Caniza (4) tackles Ivory Coast's Etienne Arthur Boka (3, jsa1 Ivory coast draw with Paraguay 1-1 in Kirin Cup Khaleej Times
Pakistan´s Yasir Arafat Kent pair top latest PCA rankings BBC News
South Africa's Dale Steyn Steyn favourite for top award Independent online (SA)
Natalie Du Toit Natalie du Toit hopes to go the distance Mail Guardian South Africa
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