Sinofert Holdings acquires 4.54% interests in Hualu Hengsheng.
Sinofert Holdings Limited (HK Stock Code: 297), a subsidiary of Sinochem Corporation, announces that it has subscribed for 1.5 million non-public offered A shares in Shandong Hualu Hengsheng Chemical Co., Ltd. (Hualu Hengsheng, SH: 600426). The offer price is fixed at RMB7.5 per share, representing a discount...

Spur Announces Appointment of Director of Market Development.
SVU: TSX VANCOUVER, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Spur Ventures Inc. (TSX-SVU, NASDAQ OTC BB-SPVEF) announced today that Dr. David Zeng has been appointed Director of Market Development, reporting to Joel Jeangrand, Vice President of Corporate Development. "David brings a tremendous depth of experience in introducing...

Farmers cotton on to GM code.
Byline: Abhiram Ghadyalpatil MUMBAI:Cotton growing areas of Maharashtra, which have reported close to a thousand suicides since June '05, are witnessing a significant phenomenon. A large number of cotton growers have now moved to genetically modified (GM) cotton, popularly known as Bt cotton. Statistics given...

Hybrid cotton set to reap bumper results.
Byline: Abhiram Ghadyalpatil MUMBAI: Cotton belts are likely to tell a different story this year. With most farmers shifting to hybrid cotton varieties, experts say the state is in for a bumper crop. Cultivation of cotton on such a magnitude would lead to bumper cotton...

Crawfish Farmers Victorious in Class Action Hearing.
LAKE CHARLES, La., July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- St. Landry Parish District Court Judge James Genovese gave hundreds of Louisiana crawfish farmers a major victory in their case against Aventis (NYSE: AVE), the manufacturer of the pesticide ICON. In the July 30th ruling, the Court granted certification for...

Room to grow: an international leader in flower bulb sales blooms in Meridian.
A Meridian flower bulb company with Holland roots has blossomed into a successful international business thanks to careful cultivation by its two owners, who are carrying on a family tradition that began in 1919. Jacqueline Van Zyverden Hogan and her brother Robert A. Van Zyverden have picked...

Devoted to topiary in Colorado. (Mountain Guide).
The horticultural art of topiary dates back at least 2,000 years, to when the ancient Romans cut bushes and trees into ornamental shapes. Over the centuries, topiary has grown in and out of fashion. Today it seems to be enjoying a resurgence in popularity. One of America's...

Investment chains through history or an historian's outline of development: "using goods of ever higher orders".
Technology is widely seen as the key to development. But this does not explain how a single innovative machine multiplies itself. An alternative tack: Menger's analysis of investment chains. Begin with first-order (consumer) goods and examine the second, third-, and other successively higher-order goods required. The range of final...

Competitive strategies adopted by vegetable retailers in Mumbai city of India--an insight.
Abstract Study indicated the emergence of a more modern retail sector in the midst of traditional wet markets. To cope up with the resource constraints, small and medium sized retailers target the medium and low-price market segments, design merchandise mixes with the fast moving product lines and...

Runer i kulturhistorisk sammenheng: En fruktharhetskultisk tradisjon.
Kjell Aartun, a Norwegian theologian with a doctorate in the Semitic dialect Ugaritic, has during the past few years created a stir in the Norwegian mass media, especially tabloid newspapers. Among his recent linguistic "accomplishments," he claims to have deciphered the message on the so-called Phaistos disk and also...