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Restaurant revolution Bangkok (January 28, 2003) - Computers are taking the paperwork and stress out of the local restaurant business, helped by new software designed for Thai firms.
Instead of having to duplicate orders for both the kitchen and cashier, staff at www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15379
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Gov't to test fish market hygiene Bangkok (January 28, 2003) - In a bid to ensure that consumers have hygienic fresh food to choose from, the Public Health Ministry yesterday announced an initiative to get tough on testing for harmful residues. "The ministry plans to promote at least one www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15380
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Liver recipient gets nut allergy from transplant Australia (January 28, 2003) - A man who received a liver transplant got a life-threatening nut allergy from the new organ, Australian doctors say.
The organ had come from a 15-year-old boy who died of an allergic reaction to peanuts, the doctors www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15381
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Energy drink takes 2 towers Bangkok (January 28, 2003) - Thailand's biggest-ever building-wrapping posters now swathe two towers in Bangkok as part of the campaign to keep the energy-drink brand M 150 on the lips of the younger generation. Rival brand Carabao Dang is also stepping www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15382
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PFP aiming to become a bigger fish Bangkok (January 28, 2003) - Pacific Fish Processing Co Ltd (PFP) is confident of a 25- to 30-per-cent increase in sales this year as it expands its frozen seafood operations in the domestic market. Charoen Watthanasin, president of marketing, said the www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15383
created on 2003-01-28
Canada approves import of GM papaya Canada (January 28, 2003) - A papaya industry leader says Canada's approval of importation of genetically modified papaya from Hawaii should open an important market. Delan Perry, president of the Hawaii Papaya Industry Association, says Canada at one www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15384
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US finds Vietnam guilty of dumping catfish, duties seen US (January 28, 2003) - The US today found Vietnamese exporters guilty of
swamping its catfish market with cut-price fillets, clearing the way for
anti-dumping duties.
The Department of Commerce issued a "preliminary finding that Vietnamese www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15385
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Monkeys at Copenhagen Zoo go ape over organic bananas Denmark (January 28, 2003) - Monkeys at Copenhagen Zoo are going ape over organic bananas and other fruits, rejecting traditional foods left in their cages, zookeepers said Monday, January 27. “For one reason or another, the tapirs and chimpanzees are www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15386
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China gives long-awaited nod to Brazilian soy imports China (January 28, 2003) - China said yesterday it has given long-awaited approval to Brazilian soybean imports, throwing open a market worth more than $1 billion annually to the South American country.
The Brazilian embassy welcomed the news cautiously www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15387
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Thousands march against FTAA at Brazil's Forum Brazil (January 28, 2003) - Brazilian school teacher Daniela Versieux is not alone in thinking the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas will bring about the U.S. domination of the region.
The 24-year-old joined thousands of mostly Latin www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15388
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Heavy rains ruin crops, cattle, kill six in Peru Peru (January 28, 2003) - Thousands were forced from their homes, crops and cattle were destroyed, and six people were killed as torrential rains, brought on by weather pattern El Nino, hammered southern Peru, officials said on Monday.
"Some 74,130 www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15389
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Do you know how much salt you're eating? UK (January 28, 2003) - What did you feed your child yesterday? Cornflakes for breakfast, perhaps? Marmite sandwiches for lunch? For supper, beans on toast, with a packet of crisps as a snack somewhere inbetween? The menu will vary from household to www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15390
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Thai rice prices lower; War fears haven't spurred demand Bangkok (January 28, 2003) - Export prices of Thai rice were lower in
the week to Monday in lackluster trade as big buyers remain out of the market,
exporters said.
Fears of a war between the U.S. and Iraq haven't spurred demand for
the www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15391
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Biz Dimension in JV with media company Bangkok (January 28, 2003) - Traffic Corner Holdings Plc, a local media entertainment company, has formed a joint venture with Biz Dimension, an integrated e-commerce service provider in a bid to garner a share of the growing demand of e-business.
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Swedish royal visit turns spotlight on trade talks Bangkok (January 28, 2003) - Trade between Sweden and Thailand will be the main topic at a Thai-Swedish seminar scheduled for next month in conjunction with the state visit to Thailand of His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf and Her Majesty Queen Silvia of www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15393
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Prehistoric Britons' taste for milk UK (January 28, 2003) - The oldest direct evidence for the existence of dairy farming has been discovered in the UK. It is based on a chemical analysis of milk fat deposits left on pottery fragments found to be 6,500 years old. Although the practice of www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15394
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Styrofoam banned in national parks Bangkok (January 28, 2003) - The use of styrofoam containers has been banned in national parks, the Department of National Parks, Fauna and Flora announced yesterday.
Visitors would be advised over the next 60 days while shopkeepers within www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15395
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GM cheese from cow clones New Zealand (January 28, 2003) - Scientists in New Zealand have created the world's first cow clones that produce special milk that can increase the speed and ease of cheese-making. The researchers in Hamilton say their herd of nine transgenic cows make www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15396
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2002 exports top $68.9bn, a rise of 5.71% Bangkok (January 28, 2003) - Thailand's exports in December totalled US$5.632 billion, an increase of 11.97 percent year-on-year, while imports reached
$5.069 billion, which is an increase of 15.38 percent year-on-year.
The trade www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15397
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Thai sugar premiums dip, raws shipped to Iraq, Russia Bangkok (January 28, 2003) - Thai white sugar premiums are likely to dip further in coming weeks amid thin overseas demand, while major trading firms are preparing to ship Thai raws to Russia and Iraq, traders said on Monday.
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Quality boost pending for rural goods Bangkok (January 28, 2003) - Proposed higher standards for products made under the One Tambon, One Product programme will be reviewed today in an attempt to upgrade the rural development scheme.
A supervisory committee will also consider www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15399
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Brazil may eventually surpass USA in farmland Brazil (January 28, 2003) - Brazil, which produces vast crops of coffee, soybeans, sugarcane and oranges, could surpass the United States in the amount of land it cultivates for farming, providing stiffer competition for other exporters.
The U.S. www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15400
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Protests in Ivory Coast threaten cocoa exports Ivory Coast (January 28, 2003) - Huge protests in Ivory Coast over a peace deal with rebels holding half the world's top cocoa grower could seriously disrupt marketing in the western cocoa belt and exports, industry sources said.
Residents said the www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15401
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Polish parliament to reject contested biofuels bill Poland (January 28, 2003) - Poland's parliament is expected to sink a controversial bill on adding ethanol to petrol sold in the country after the government coalition's bigger party decided to vote against it, party officials said on Monday.
The www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15402
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Vietnam fights uphill battle against counterfeit booze Vietnam (January 28, 2003) - State employee Tran Thanh Binh always buys his whisky for Lunar New Year from a shop recommended to him by friends - but that's no guarantee it's genuine.
"Even when I drink, I cannot tell whether it's real or fake www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15403
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McDonald's obesity suit may be only the first nibble US (January 28, 2003) - A federal judge's dismissal of a lawsuit blaming McDonald's Corp. for obesity in children is no cause for celebration by the fast-food king, legal experts say.
"It wasn't as simple as one, two, three," said Victor Schwartz, www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15404
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Russia sets meat import quotas, EU worried Russia (January 28, 2003) - Russia on Monday announced it had set annual import quotas for its meat imports in what analysts said was an attempt to force the European Union to accept more Russian grain.
EU officials said the bloc was seriously www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15405
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Animal dung coffee - only A$1000 per kilo Indonesia (January 28, 2003) - It may be a sign that the world has gone mad.
Possibly one of the most expensive coffees in the world - at well over $A1,000 a kilo - is only found in the droppings of a cat-like creature in Indonesia. The so-called Kopi www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15406
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EU to test Brazilian waters in sugar trade row Belgium (January 28, 2003) - Europe's trade chief goes to Brazil this week and will try to find out where the country wants to take a dispute with the 15-nation European Union over sugar production subsidies, EU officials said on Monday.
European www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15407
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Producers address issues related to treatment of chickens US (January 28, 2003) - In the debate over poultry processing in the United States, producers and animal rights activists can agree on one thing: Consumers don't want to know the gruesome details.
As millions of Americans sit down for dinner each www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15408
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USDA over-stating cost of food labeling - proponents US (January 28, 2003) - The cost of putting country-of-origin labels on U.S. foods will be less than the government's estimate of $2 billion a year, proponents said after meeting Agriculture Department officials on Monday.
Support for labeling has www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15409
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Uganda striving to boost foreign trade Uganda (January 28, 2003) - The Ugandan government is taking various measures to boost foreign trade as part of the east African country's efforts to revive the economy.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is actively engaged in creating the East African www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15410
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Drought hits Ethiopia's top quality coffee Ethiopia (January 28, 2003) - Output of Ethiopia's leading coffee, which is already threatened by farmers switching to more lucrative crops, is expected to be sharply reduced by drought, a coffee official said on Monday.
Production of the specialty www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15411
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US wheat industry wrestles with GM issues US (January 28, 2003) - U.S. wheat industry meetings this week will be dominated by fierce debate over genetically modified wheat produced by Monsanto Co., a biotech crop pioneer.
The annual gathering of industry groups, including the National www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15412
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Senator seeks US decision on EU GMO complaint US (January 28, 2003) - The Bush administration should end weeks of speculation and announce it is filing a complaint against the European Union for prohibiting the import of new genetically modified goods, a key Senate Republican said on Monday.
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Cows immune to caress US (January 28, 2003) - Whispering sweet nothings gains farmers no favour with cows, according to animal researchers. Given a choice, only food can keep the beasts happy. An anxious cow produces up to 15% less milk - but farmers know little about what www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15414
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US, Central America open free trade talks Costa Rica (January 28, 2003) - The United States and five Central American nations opened talks on Monday to thrash out a free trade pact that the formerly war-torn region hopes will boost exports, create more jobs, and cut poverty.
"Poverty is the www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15415
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NZ dollar hurts sheep, beef farmers New Zealand (January 28, 2003) - Waikato's sheep and beef industry will be the country's hardest hit by the soaring kiwi dollar, says a leading economist. The dollar reached three-year highs at US55c last week and experts say it shows no signs of a quick www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15416
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Vietnam's seafood sector encouraged to meet ambitious targets Vietnam (January 28, 2003) - The Ministry of Fisheries has unveiled plans to export USD 2.3 billion worth of seafood this year, including about USD 380 million from Ca Mau Province alone, writes Vietnam News. To reach this target, the province will have www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15417
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Fish, shrimp ponds destroying Philippine mangroves Philippines (January 28, 2003) - Fish and shrimp ponds have been identified as a major factor behind the degradation of the country's ecological balance, experts said. Members of international non-government organizations concluded that the fish and www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15418
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EPR powers to success with chicken litter UK (January 28, 2003) - Energy Power Resources, one of Britain's biggest independent renewable energy producers, now generates more electricity by burning poultry droppings than any operator in the country. It has acquired a controlling interest in www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15419
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Zimbabwe farmers union to discuss compensation Zimbabwe (January 28, 2003) - The Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers Union (ZCFU) said here Monday that they are going to hold a council meeting on Tuesday to discuss the way forward for compensating former commercial farmers.
ZCFU president Collin Cloete made www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15421
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Farm groups reject Mexican government proposal for talks Mexico (January 28, 2003) - Three alliances of farm groups have rejected the government's call for a national debate on farm policy and accuse officials of reneging on promises for a broader dialogue.
"It is an open violation of the agreement," www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15422
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EU burns Thai vegetables Bangkok (January 29, 2003) - The European Union has burnt more than 100 vegetable products exported from Thailand after finding they had traces of chemical residues.
Deputy Agriculture Minister Newin Chidchob said: "Chemical residues were www.foodmarketexchange.com/wp/news.php?newsid=15423
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