P/$ rate closes at P50.005 to $ 1.
The peso rate closed slightly lower at P50.005 to the US dollar yesterday at the Philippine Dealing System of the Bankers Association of the Philippines from P50.00 last Friday. The weighted average rate depreciated to P50.005 from P50.003. Total volume amounted to $ 146.8 million. First Gen...

Saskatchewan.
The fourth and final session of the 24th Legislature opened on March 18th, 2003 and continued to sit for 68 sitting days, before adjourning on June 27th. The session saw the passage of a spring budget and a smaller than average number of bills. 46 of the 48 bills...

Wheat, pulses hoarding busters get 6 more mths.
NEW DELHI: In a bid to reinforce the drive against hoarding and check spiralling domestic prices of essential commodities, the Centre on Thursday extended up to February 2008 notifications that empower state governments to impose restrictions on wheat and pulses stocks and control their physical movement. The notifications are...

Avermectins encounters embarrassment.
As the requirements for environmental protection become stricter and stricter in China, five kinds of highly toxic pesticides (methamidophos, thiolphos, metaphos, monocrotophos and phosphamidon) were banned, leaving a market gap and causing a brisk demand for biological pesticides. The price of biological pesticides kept going up. After...

ARAB AFFAIRS - Aug 4 - Kingdom Stresses Need For Palestinian Unity.
The Council of Ministers stresses the need for the Palestinians to unite so that they can present their stances in an effective manner internationally. "The Council of Ministers in its weekly meeting chaired by Crown Prince Sultan reviewed the situation in the Arab world and called for joint Arab...

Perspectives on international agricultural trade and development.
9781600219672 Perspectives on international agricultural trade and development. Ed. by Dragan Miljkovic. Nova Science Publishers 2007 114 pages $69.00 Hardcover HD9000 This volume contains five chapters penned by American agricultural economists...

Arab donors buy the limelight at the Rome food summit.
The Islamic Development Bank has raised $1.5bn to help the poorest countries cope with the savage current global rise in the price of food. Separately, Saudi Arabia alone has donated $500m and Kuwait $100m. The UAE has announced the establishment of an advanced regional research and development...

<i>Aam aadmi's</i> income may double in 10 yrs: FM.
Byline: SUMIT GULATI Last year the Economic Survey declared that India had moved into the East Asian growth trajectory. The FM settles all debate this time by saying that the economy has moved decisively to a higher growth phase. The Survey continues to emphasise what it did...

Cuba seeks to double rice production.
Five new strains of rice rich in iron and zinc have been planted in the province of Villa Clara, as part of research being carried out to increase yield of this cereal in Cuba. Gladys Lopez, an official of the Armando Perera Cooperative of Credit and Services,...

Rice export curbs may not help beef up stock.
Byline: Prabha Jagannathan (##include msid=2459375,type=9 ##)NEW DELHI: Matta, the boiled red rice that is the mainstay of expat Kerala, is fast disappearing from shelves in marts the world over after the government imposed a ban on container shipments from the Kochi, Vizag, Chennai, Mangalore and Tuticorin ports....