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Aid Burma Disaster Photos Society | The Australian
Grief is compounded by desperation
| BURMA'S great Irrawaddy river runs flat and muddy. It twines and forks through kilometres of rich delta and has always given nurture and good fortune to the people of southern Burma. | But in the wa... (photo: US Marine Corp / Ezekiel R. Kitandwe) | |
 San Diego
Solar-cooker project could cut air pollution
Veerabhadran Ramanathan tours the globe to conduct experiments and advise world leaders about climate change. | K.C. ALFRED / Union-Tribune Climate researcher Veerabhadran Ramanathan uses the bus to g... (photo: WN / smita)
Climate Nature Photos Pollution World |
 Houston Chronicle
Malaysia's subsidy bill soars to $15.6 billion
TOOLS | KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian government subsidies for gasoline, food and other essential goods are expected to hit $15.6 billion this year as global prices soar, Prime Minister Abdullah ... (photo: WN / Periasamy)
Economy Food Malaysia Photos Society |
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 The News Tribune
China, India poised to alter global food equation
BEIJING - Nothing about the lunch rush at a McDonald's in China would feel out of place in America: Students huddled around video games and fries; a computer salesman sca... (photo: WN / theresa)
China Food Market McDonald Photos |
 Orlando Sentinel
Foodie paradise found: Penang
PENANG, Malaysia - There's fresh crab, live from the tank, and bowls of miniature clams ready to pop out of their shells for sauteing in a spicy sauce with garlic and lim... (photo: Creative Commons / nourtarek)
Food Malaysia Penang Photos Tourism |
 Canada Dot Com
Fanning flames of Afghan food crisis
| Export restrictions and higher taxes in neighbouring countries are worsening an already dire food crisis in Afghanistan. | Rick Corsino, the World Food Program's direct... (photo: US Army/Spc. Jennifer Barba)
Afghanistan Aid Canada Food Photos |
 San Fransisco Chronicle
Laos, where rubber hits the road to China
| (05-11) 04:00 PDT Chaleunsouk, Laos -- The rice fields that blanketed this remote mountain village for generations are gone. In their place rise neat rows of young rubb... (photo: creative commons / )
Business Economy Environment Nature Photos |
 Ohio
Asian leaders' rice-cartel plan goes against grain
| Until last week, the next oil - the crucial resource growing ever scarcer and prompting desperate behavior to ensure supplies - was water. Turns out, it's rice. | That'... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Asian Export Grain Photos Rice |
 Turkish Press
Genetically modified crops get mixed response in Asia
| A researcher inspects rice specimens inside a Philippines rice gene bank in Los Banos, south of Manila on May 2. With food prices hitting record highs the debate in Asi... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)
Asia Crops Food Philippines Photos |
 Dawn
SWABI: Swabi people stock new crop for food security: Flour crisis deepens
| By Muqaddam Khan | SWABI, May 10: As the flour crisis deepens, people have started stocking fresh produce of wheat to cope with the situation while flourmills have gear... (photo: WN / patricia)
Flour Food People Photos Wheat |
 Knox News
Johnson: Spoiled by cheap food
| High food prices are killing people - literally. At least five people died in Somalia last week when violent protests erupted over rising food prices and a collapsing c... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)
Food Killing Photos Prices Somalia |
 China Daily
Japan foundation resumes funding food for pandas
(Xinhua) | Updated: 2008-05-11 08:55 | CHENGDU -- A non-government Japanese foundation resumed funding of bamboo planting in southwest China's Sichuan Province on S... (photo: Creative Commons / dbking)
Animals Environment Food Japan Photos |
 The Times
Soaring price of a staple diet
div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited { color:#06c; } | IT'S been a long time since Italians were a force in Manhattan and every year Littl... (photo: Creative Commons / /)
Diet Food Inflation Italy Photos |
