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Giant pig farms accused of defiling Mexico's 'sacred wells'
AFP, Published on 05/08/2021
» MéRIDA, Mexico: Long revered by the Maya people as sacred and today a magnet for tourists, local indigenous communities fear the water-filled sinkholes of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula are under threat from industrial pig farms.
EU and China talk trade despite rifts
AFP, Published on 14/09/2020
» BRUSSELS: EU leaders will talk to Chinese President Xi Jinping seeking trade and investment Monday, despite tensions over Hong Kong's freedoms and Beijing's treatment of its Uighur minority.
China's crash diet begs the question: is it facing a food crisis?
AFP, Published on 26/08/2020
» SHANGHAI - A national campaign to curb mounting food waste in China is feeding speculation that the supply outlook is worse than the government admits and fuelling warnings food could become another front in the worsening US-China rivalry.
Boar that stole nudist's laptop 'may be culled'
AFP, Published on 14/08/2020
» BERLIN: A wild boar that went viral after stealing a nudist's laptop by a lake in German capital Berlin last week could be caught up in a local cull, an official said Friday.
China factory prices plunge as virus hammers demand
AFP, Published on 12/05/2020
» BEIJING - China's factory-gate prices fell to a four-year low, official data showed Tuesday, with firms suffering from the economic devastation unleashed by the coronavirus on the global economy.
China inflation rises as virus disrupts supply chains
AFP, Published on 10/02/2020
» BEIJING: China consumer prices rose at their highest rate in more than eight years, official data showed Monday, with inflation more than expected on the back of Lunar New Year demand and a deadly virus outbreak.
China trade surplus with US dropped 8.5% to $296 bn in 2019
AFP, Published on 14/01/2020
» BEIJING - China's trade surplus with the United States narrowed last year as the world's two biggest economies exchanged punitive tariffs in a bruising trade war, data showed Tuesday, just as the two prepare to sign a deal dialling down tensions.
China to lower import tariffs from January
AFP, Published on 23/12/2019
» BEIJING: Beijing will lower import tariffs on more than 850 products including frozen pork from next month, the finance ministry said Monday, as authorities battle a severe shortage of the meat staple.
China to exempt 'some' US soybean, pork from tariffs
AFP, Published on 06/12/2019
» BEIJING - China will waiver tariffs on "some" imports of US soybean and pork, it said on Friday, in the latest sign of easing trade tensions between Beijing and Washington as they try to finalise a partial trade pact.
China inflation surges as pork prices soar
AFP, Published on 15/10/2019
» BEIJING - China's consumer inflation accelerated at its fastest pace in almost six years in September as African swine fever sent pork prices soaring nearly 70 percent, official data showed Tuesday.