Personal requiem: Asia's lost gemsSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 14 hours agoBamboo and thatch tourist huts hug the meandering Pai River as far as the eye can see, gobbling up rice paddies and clambering up hillsides on its left bank …
'Long neglect of productivity' causes rice supply shortageSun.Star, Philippines - 4 hours ago"Inputs and yields for most crops are lower than most other Southeast Asian countries and productivity growth rates lag behind other parts of Southeast Asia …
BRIEFING - ASIA AGRIBUSINESS - MARCH 25, 2008Trading Markets (press release), CA - 48 minutes agoMANILA - Senate President Manny Villar on Monday called on the government to regulate its spending capacity in taking counter-measures on the impending rice …
Don't Just Blame the Chickens for FluThe Associated Press - 11 hours agoWASHINGTON (AP) — Intensive rice farming and large duck populations — not the number of chickens raised — may be the best predictors of where bird flu might …
Asia stability threatened as rice dwindlesTimes Online, UK - 10 hours agoWorld rice supplies are reaching dangerously tight levels as stores of South Asia's staple food fall to 25-year lows and governments strive to stabilise …Can the strains be overlooked? The Daily Starall 2 news articles
March 22, 2008
Rice Breeding: Highly Specific Gene Silencing Successful In Rice - Science Daily (press release)
Rice Breeding: Highly Specific Gene Silencing Successful In RiceScience Daily (press release) - Mar 21, 2008… property in two different rice varieties, including the agronomically important indica variety IR64, the most commonly grown strain in South-East Asia. …
A Place to Savor Flavors of ThailandNew York Times, United States - 14 hours agoPlain rice comes with most dishes, curries especially, and the blandness is perfect for taming a fiery sauce. Among the curries, although there are no …Neramitra: Look Forward to It Washington Postall 2 news articles
Jamaica GleanerHealthy lifestyle - Oranges aplentyJamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 13 hours agoThe sweet orange, Citrus sinensis, is more familiar to our culture and is believed to have originated in South East Asia. The spread of the sweet orange to …
PRESS TVBush Silent, but Others Speak Out on Tibet CrackdownNew York Times, United States - 16 hours agoWhile his administration has called for an end to the violence, and his secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, phoned her Chinese counterpart to urge …Bush: Politics Not a Factor in Olympics The Associated PressBush says Olympics are about athletes not politics Xinhuaall 308 news articles
Rice fetches unmatched prices as supplies dipEconomic Times, India - 20 hours agoThe limits on sales by Vietnam will further tighten supplies in Asia. Over the last six months, the international price of rice increased sharply from $ 430 …Govt allows duty-free rice imports for a year Reuters IndiaTwo more ports for basmati exports Economic Timesall 5 news articles