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UN Program Helps Haiti to Combat Food Shortage
[21 Aug 2009]
According to the UN press release, a scheme intended to improve food security of Haiti and thereby lower food prices has come to fruition with considerable increase in the income of the country’s farm
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Tags: UN FAO IFAD food
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Plans of Asia-Pacific Integration through Single Currency
[27 Oct 2009]
Asian leaders have once again brought up the idea of common currency at the 4th East Asia Summit (EAS) which opened on Sunday, where ASEAN members along with others including China, Japan, South Korea
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Tags: Asia-Pacific EAS China Japan South Korea India
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Collective Effort Needed to Stop Illegal Ivory Trade
[02 Nov 2009]
It is evident now that the two decades of a law to ban poaching of elephants has done very little to stop illegal trade of ivory which is going on unabated particularly in Africa, and many other parts
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Tags: CITES IFAW IFWW UN UK Qatar
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FIFA and SA Allay Fears over World Cup Security
[28 Jan 2010]
The president of South Africa (SA) Jacob Zuma and the FIFA's secretary general Jérôme Valcke at separate occasions informed there was no security threat to the forthcoming football (soccer) World Cup
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Tags: FIFA SA South Africa World Cup WEF Germany
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Jabulani Controversy May Favour Dwindling Pakistani Exports
[02 Jul 2010]
The hullabaloo over Jabulani, the official FIFA World Cup football may help the failing exports of Pakistan if the soccer governing body opted for Pakistan’s hand-stitched footballs over the Chinese t
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Tags: FIFA Soccer World Cup 2010 Jabulani Football
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EU-CARIFORUM EPA Remains a Slow Starter
[14 Sep 2010]
A study claims that the objective of meeting economic growth in the Caribbean region has not been met even after two years of signing the Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and the Caribbea
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Tags: CARIFORUM CaPRI CIGI EU Caribbean
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Oil out GM Crops In - In a Bid to Control World
[25 Oct 2010]
A big ticket inter-governmental project on a genetically modified (GM) crop trials are about to begin in five African countries amidst promises of higher yield out of crops grown under below par condi
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Tags: Genetically Modified Gene Ethics Crops
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