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Beijing (AFP) March 2, 2010 Chinese authorities have reported an outbreak of highly contagious foot and mouth disease in the south of the country and have destroyed more than 8,000 pigs, state media reported Tuesday. Xinhua news agency quoted local veterinary officials in Guangdong province as saying a total of 8,382 pigs had been culled after the outbreak was reported in a district of the provincial capital Guangzhou last month. The disease only rarely affects humans, but is very contagious among cloven-hoofed animals, including sheep, goats and cattle.
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Pacific nations vie to create OPEC-style tuna cartelKoror (AFP) Feb 25, 2010 Leaders of eight Pacific nations responsible for a quarter of the world's tuna catch vowed Thursday to conserve stocks of the fish and increase their own financial return from the lucrative industry. Despite their waters producing much of the world's tuna, the impoverished nations receive only three to four percent of the wholesale value of the catch, which is mainly controlled by foreign co ... read more |
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