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African swine fever outbreaks spreading in Vietnam
Published on 15/07/2024
» HANOI, Vietnam - African swine fever outbreaks are spreading in Vietnam and could affect its food supplies and put upward pressure on inflation, according to a government document.
DMZ tours still on after US soldier’s breach
Published on 19/07/2023
» PAJU, South Korea: Only hours after a US soldier fled into North Korea while taking part in an organised tour on the heavily fortified border, groups of tourists coming from the South Korean side were still visiting the area on Wednesday.
Vietnam develops 'world's first' African swine fever vaccine for commercial use
Reuters, Published on 01/06/2022
» HANOI: Vietnam said on Wednesday it had successfully developed a vaccine to administer to pigs to fight African swine fever, with the aim of becoming the first country to commercially produce and export it.
Swine fever-hit Philippines sees 'substantial' growth in hog population
Reuters, Published on 18/01/2022
» MANILA: The Philippines' swine inventory increased by about 700,000 heads over the last 12 months owing to a repopulation programme, following two years of declines due to African swine fever outbreaks, an agriculture official said on Tuesday.
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.
Philippine central bank keeps rates steady
Published on 11/02/2021
» MANILA: The Philippine central bank kept its monetary policy settings steady on Thursday to support the country's pandemic-hit economy, saying inflation is expected to remain elevated but manageable in the coming months.
China bans German pork over swine fever
Published on 12/09/2020
» SHANGHAI: China on Saturday announced a ban on the import of pork and pig products from Germany after the latter confirmed its first case of African swine fever in a wild boar last week.
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.
African swine fever spreads in southern Philippines
Reuters, Published on 09/02/2020
» MANILA: The Philippines confirmed on Sunday that African swine fever infections had spread in the south of the country, which accounts for nearly a third of the nation's 12.8 million pig herd.