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• Maldives gears up for first democratic election
MALE, Maldives - To supporters, President Mamoun Abdul Gayoom is a hero who turned a poor nation of fishermen into a tourist paradise and the economic success story of South Asia. Detractors accuse him of ruling the Maldives as a dictator, violently ...
• For chocolate lovers: more kinds of cacao
One of the targets is for us to improve cacao, because in many countries, like Asia and Africa, cacao losses could be up to 80 percent of the farm production," Motamayor said. Motamayor and his colleagues detailed their findings in a paper published ...
• Asia stocks off 5 percent as global crisis spirals
HONG KONG - Asian stocks dropped by around 5 percent on Monday, led by exporters, and the yen surged to a 2-year high against the euro as investors doubted a scattered European response to the financial crisis and a $700 billion U.S. bank bailout ...
• Chinese lawyers pressured to drop milk cases
Meanwhile, China’s iconic White Rabbit candy was back in production after being pulled from shelves in the U.S., Europe and Asia following tests that found it contained melamine, a state-run newspaper reported Tuesday. Guan Sheng Yuan Co. did not ...
• World economies divided on interest rate cuts
TOKYO - Hopes for a coordinated interest rate cut among the world's major economies to ease a global credit crunch have been anything but in sync the last couple days in Asia. While the Reserve Bank of Australia cheered regional markets Tuesday by ...