Is China’s Pork Consumption Hurting The West?
While Americans eat nearly twice as much meat individually as their Chinese counterparts every...
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China Feels After-Effects of Economic Stimulus
At the Los Angeles Times, David Pierson examines the hangover from China’s efforts to combat the 2008 financial crisis, beginning in a gleaming but deserted shopping mall in Beijing: “It gets better on...
China Plans to Release Some of Its Pork Stockpile to Hold Down Prices
In response to rising prices of pork, China’s Commerce Ministry announced its plan to release 200,000-metric-ton of frozen pork onto the market. The New York Times reports on China’s continued effort to curb...
Fallout From China’s Quake Could Include Inflation
From Los Angeles Times: The powerful earthquake that rattled Sichuan province is not expected to hamper China’s economic growth, but it could ripple through the economy in one significant way: inflation. Sichuan accounts...
Year Of The Pig Takes A Positive Turn – Richard McGregor
From Financial Times: The stench filling the air outside the Good Breeding pig farm in an otherwise bucolic mid-autumn day on Beijing’s rural outskirts is the best news Li Yongqiang has had for nearly a year. After cutting production in 2006 because of rising feed costs and low pork prices, Mr Li late last year […]
Biotech Will Help China Reclaim Land, Grow Food – Andy Mukherjee
China is investing heavily in biotechnology, hoping to feed its growing population in the coming decades. From Bloomberg: Diversion of food crops to biofuels has finally caught the attention of policy makers in China. Even as the country seeks to use 10 million tons of bio- ethanol and 2 million tons of bio-diesel annually by […]
Zero-profit Pork Alliance Running Out of Moral Steam – The Beijing News
Here’s a socialist approach to cooling down the recent pork price surge. But it’s not quite working before it is bound to collapse. Translated from a compiled report by the Beijing News: More than 150 supermarket stores in western China’s Chongqing city made a bold move by binding together in a noble cause to reverse, […]
China Launches Food Price Investigation – AP
Following Caijing Magazine’s recent expos√© on price fixing by naughty food cartels, the government announces plans to suss the problem. AP via the International Herald Tribune: Investigators will look into why prices of grain, vegetable oil, pork, beef, mutton, and poultry are rising so fast, the National Development and Reform Commission said on its Web […]
This Is A Stickup: Your Pork Or Your Life! － Weird Asia News
First dumplings filled with cardboard, now this: According to the Shenzhen Jing newspaper, a peddler was robbed of his motorcycle and his load of 125kg of pork.He was on his way to a market in Shenzhen, which lies on the border of Hong Kong. The suspects rushed from a minibus and threatened him with a […]
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