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1. Business - Commodities - COMMODITIES

   Exporters face record rice glut

   Posted Mar 06th 2013, 12:00am by Bloomberg

   ... Business Commodities Rice Crop Thailand Export Bloomberg in Singapore Huge stockpiles put prices under pressure and lead to shortage of warehouse space in Thailand Farmers are preparing to plant a record rice crop that will boost inventories held by the world's biggest exporters to the highest-ever. Harvests will climb 1.2 per cent to 472 million tonnes as the five largest ...

   http://www.scmp.com/business/commodities/article/1180817/exporters-face-record-rice-glut
2. Bumper harvests a mixed blessing

   Posted Dec 05th 2008, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... Crops Environment Environment Adam Chen in Beijing Plentiful supply means lower prices for farmers Return to work in a coastal city, or continue growing grain at home - that is the dilemma ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/662651/bumper-harvests-mixed-blessing
3. News - China - AGRICULTURE

   Consumers get poor-quality farm produce, while the best goes overseas

   Posted Dec 09th 2012, 12:00am by MANDY ZUO

   ... Professor Ma Ji, also from China Agricultural University, said media reports of poor sales of farm produce had doubled in the past seven years, with crops left to rot in fields. Ma said ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1100995/consumers-get-poor-quality-farm-produce-while-best-goes-overseas
4. Grain output target raised 10pc for 2020

   Posted Apr 09th 2009, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... tonnes over the next decade, Xinhua reported yesterday. China had its fifth consecutive record harvest last year, with grain output rising 5.4 per cent year on year to 528.5 million tonnes. But, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/676236/grain-output-target-raised-10pc-2020
5. MOTHER knows best

   Posted Jun 07th 2012, 12:00am

   ... a harvest, and volatile prices. 'I had to work part-time in local restaurants if we had a bad year,' she recalls. 'Now that we have stable business year-round, we can even ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/1003178/mother-knows-best
6. Cuppa heaven

   Posted Apr 13th 2006, 12:00am by Bradley Winterton

   ... immediately after they have been harvested. Next the tea is distributed onto circular wicker trays one metre across. These are stacked in racks where they are left for a further eight hours, each tray ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/544595/cuppa-heaven
7. Bumper harvest predicted despite severe droughts

   Posted Jun 01st 2011, 12:00am

   ... Environment Environment Agriculture Wheat Crops ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/969353/bumper-harvest-predicted-despite-severe-droughts
8. Farm goods set to follow in the footsteps of oil

   Posted Jul 03rd 2005, 12:00am by Chris Oliver

   ... Crops Peak Oil Quotation Person Career Business ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/506918/farm-goods-set-follow-footsteps-oil
9. All ears

   Posted Jun 11th 2011, 12:00am

   ... Energy Crops Environment After floods, droughts, tsunamis, earthquakes, and even some perfect growing conditions, relieved farmers across the world are bringing in their wheat harvests. With an average of 70 kilograms a year consumed by each one of us, wheat is only second ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/970231/all-ears
10. News - Asia - SINGAPORE

    Singapore church on trial in pop star scandal

    Posted May 15th 2013, 04:20pm by AP

    ... News Asia City Harvest Church Sun Ho Hong Kee Associated Press in Singapore Singapore opened a long-anticipated corruption trial on Wednesday of six church leaders accused of embezzling more than S$40 million (HK$249 million) to fund the pop music career of the wife of their evangelical movement’s founder. City Harvest Church faithful queued at a Singapore court overnight ...

    http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1238300/singapore-church-trial-pop-star-scandal

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