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UN members agree to label biotech foods
OTTAWA, Canada -- Representatives of UN member countries agreed on Wednesday on guidelines for labelling genetically modified foods, by standardising the definitions of words that can appear on labels. The agreed-upon definitions themselves may n...

Celebrities protest at treatment of Indian cows
NEW DELHI, India -- Film stars Brigitte Bardot and Steven Seagal, former Beatle Paul McCartney and German rocker Nina Hagen yesterday joined a global protest against the Indian leather industry, the US-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Ani...

High mohair prices continue
PORT ELIZABETH -- Prices stabilised on the fifth summer sale here on Tuesday and moved horizontally. The exchange rate had little influence on prices. Competition among buyers remained strong and excellent prices were realised. Strong adult moh...

Farmers trained to detect disease
By Albert Mfana STERKSPRUIT -- The training of farmers in animal disease here is in its third day said Victor Mantashe of the Logos company yesterday. The Logos company, based at Halfway House, is training the local farmers' association free of...

17th BSE case this year
PARIS, France -- A new case of mad cow disease, or BSE, has been discovered in northern France, bringing to 17 the number of recorded cases this year, the agriculture ministry said this week. The infected animal was a dairy cow from a farm in the...

MARKET PRICES
The following prices for fair average quality produce marketed in East London, prices supplied in cent/kilogram. PRODUCTAVE.HIGHLOW VEGETABLES Butternuts . . . . . . .1,35 . .1,50 1,20 Potatoes class 1 med1,511,701,45 class 2 med1,42...

Saving young sex offenders
The time has come to look at alternatives to imprisonment for first-time juvenile sex offenders whose behaviour is likely to deteriorate inside a prison regime, argues Mike Earl-Taylor. SOUTH Africa's recent ascendance to the ignominious positi...

The war vets who aren't
WAR veterans in Zimbabwe leading a bloody campaign of white farm invasions are a militia of ex-guerillas, jobless youths, women and party followers in the pay of a president desperately clinging to power. The thousands of blacks who have flooded ...

The party that's giving Mugabe a run for his money
By Susan Njanji JUST six months old, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has captured the imagination of Zimbabweans, who see it as a vibrant and broad-based party that has the potential to unseat their increasingly unpopular president, Robe...