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Why an Amazon chef said no to a vegan dinner for Prince William event
AFP, Published on 04/11/2025
» RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Saulo Jennings, a chef from Brazil's Amazon region, is so passionate about the rainforest's flavors -- like the massive pirarucu fish -- that he refused to cater a vegan dinner at an environmental awards ceremony hosted by Britain's Prince William.
Kratom now a $1-billion industry in the US
Bloomberg News, Published on 03/10/2024
» In Southeast Asia, people for centuries have chewed the leaves of the kratom tree — part of the coffee family — as a pain-relieving, energy- and mood-boosting remedy.
New species of Viola found in China's Guangdong
Xinhua, Published on 07/05/2023
» GUANGZHOU: Chinese researchers have discovered a new Viola species, V. heyuanensis in south China's Guangdong Province. The findings were published in the international academic journal Nordic Journal of Botany on Wednesday.
Tea, beer, garlic: how world copes with lockdown
AFP, Published on 24/04/2020
» BAGHDAD: In the US it was toilet paper, in Mexico it's beer and in France, predictably, flour. The goods missing from stores reveal how the world is coping with coronavirus lockdowns.
Madagascar's 'angel makers' flourish in ban on abortion
AFP, Published on 01/09/2019
» ANTANANARIVO - Volatiana keeps her secret behind a flimsy wooden gate, tucked along a red brick wall at the back of her vegetable garden in Madagascar's Antananarivo.
Canada now world's largest legal marijuana marketplace
Associated Press, Published on 17/10/2018
» TORONTO: Canada is now the second, and the largest, country with a legal national marijuana marketplace, with sales beginning early on Wednesday in Newfoundland in the east of the country.