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 Mail Guardian South Africa
Top UN human rights forum to examine food crisis
The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold a special session on May 23 to examine how the world's food crisis is undermining the right to food for millions of people, officials said on Friday. ... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal)
Crisis Food Malnutrition Photos Unitednation |
 CNN
U.N. 'furious' as Myanmar aid 'seized'
| BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) -- The United Nations' top World Food Program official says he is "furious" over the Myanmar's government's refusal to allow the organization to distribute aid that was flown... (photo: UN file)
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Myanmar seizes UN relief material while its cyclone stricken population live in misery
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar's junta seized two planeloads of critical aid sent by the U.N. on Friday for a multitude of hungry and homeless survivors of last week's de... (photo: AP Photo)
Disaster Junta Myanmar Photos UN |
 AOL
UN halts aid to Myanmar after junta seizes supplies
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - A U.N. official says the World Food Program is suspending cyclone aid to Myanmar because its government seized supplies flown into the country. | H... (photo: Creative Commons / )
Disasters Economy Food Photos Society |
 Sydney Morning Herald
Scramble to prevent disease spread
| Health experts are scrambling to prevent widespread illness in Burma after reports of malaria outbreaks and diarrhoea surfaced in areas of the country hardest hit by a ... (photo: Historic Image Library)
Asia Burma Disease Health Malaria Photos UN |
 The Times Of India
What is eating into Indian food basket?
| The most powerful person on this planet seems to have got it wrong once again. By assigning the cause of global food price crisis to India, George ... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Food India Inflation Photos US |
 The News Tribune
Indian Bhangra competition enlivens Tacoma for charity
What: "Aaja Nachla: Bhangra for Charity" | Who: Organized by South Asian Student Association of University of Washington Tacoma, featuring Bhangra dance teams from the No... (photo: PIB)
Asia Dance India Photos Punjab |
 Business Day
Price of rice rises after killer cyclone for fifth day in a row
SINGAPORE - Rice gained in price for a fifth day after a cyclone in Burma flooded 5000km² of farmland and Malaysia began imports from Thailand. | Rice futures, whi... (photo: WN / patricia)
Asia Farm Food Photos Trade |
 San Fransisco Chronicle
Depleted groundwater threatens food chain
| (05-09) 04:00 PDT Kilichahal, India -- | Just before dusk on the central plain of northern Punjab state, Naresh Kumar, 22, crouches under a huge drill and sprinkles mus... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar)
Agriculture Food India Photos Punjab |
 The Times Of India
Corn seen up on fresh buying, barley down
| MUMBAI: Indian corn futures are likely to open higher on Friday on fresh buying after the commodity escaped a trading suspension, contrary to market expec... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
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 Dawn
Sanghar unlikely to meet wheat target
| By Our Correspondent | SANGHAR, May 8: The district food department is unlikely to meet the wheat procurement target of 1,100,000 bags of 100kg this year, a survey by D... (photo: creative commons / )
Agriculture Food Photos Procurement Wheat |
 China Daily
China, Japan pledge to enhance cooperation in food security
(Xinhua) | Updated: 2008-05-09 10:45 | China and Japan pledged to strengthen cooperation in food security in a bid to safeguard the life and health of the two peoples, sa... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
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