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Trade Policy and Strategy Office promotes 'farm-to-face' products
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 25/07/2024
» So-called "farm-to-face" beauty products are a growing trend in response to environmental sustainability, providing promising opportunities for rural entrepreneurs, according to the Trade Policy and Strategy Office (TPSO).
Chinese demand for exotic cures switches to donkey skins
Business, Wandiswa Ntengento of AFP, Published on 22/06/2022
» MAGALIESBURG, South Africa: Chinese demand for traditional medicines has sent poachers hunting for African animals from rhinos to pangolins. Now a humbler creature is threatened - donkeys.
Millions more invested in lab-grown foie gras
New York Times, Published on 21/07/2021
» Can foie gras grown in a lab taste just as decadent and creamy as that made from farm-raised ducks or geese?
Jurin denies 'industrial' monkey use
News, Post Reporters, Published on 07/07/2020
» Thailand does not use monkeys to harvest coconuts on an industrial scale for its export industry, insisted Commerce Minister Jurin Laksanawisit on Monday.
Govt backs 'monkey business'
News, Bangkok Post, Published on 06/07/2020
» The Commerce Ministry, coconut farmers and monkey school owners have dismissed claims by an animal rights group that monkeys trained to pick coconuts were maltreated and announced plans to take foreign diplomats on a visit to see the monkeys at work for themselves.
China opening up to cruelty-free cosmetics
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 22/07/2019
» It comes as no surprise that China is one of the world's largest cosmetics markets. Last year it was valued at more than US$26 billion, and analysts are now debating whether China or the US currently holds pole position in the global cosmetics race.
Paws up: Indonesia tackles the dog meat trade
Asia focus, Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, Published on 20/08/2018
» Fien Harini still remembers when Ireng, her mongrel pet dog, disappeared and never returned home.
Volkswagen's monkeys
Business, Published on 07/02/2018
» Late last month, the New York Times reported that researchers used monkeys to test the effects of inhaling diesel fumes from a Volkswagen. The research was commissioned by the European Research Group on Environment and Health in the Transport Sector, an organisation funded entirely by three big German car manufacturers: Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW.