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Rice

Is rice the new 'milk powder' for Hong Kong/China cross-border tensions?

21 May 2013

Buy too much rice in Hong Kong and “you could end up in jail”, Chinese media warned tourists in the wake of the Guangzhou cadmium scandal.

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Guangzhou reveals details on cadmium tainting as public pressure mounts

19 May 2013

Guangzhou's food-safety authorities have revealed some details about the sale of rice and rice noodles contaminated with cadmium, a heavy metal, in the face of enormous public pressure.

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High cadmium levels found in Guangzhou rice

18 May 2013

Nearly half the rice and rice products on sale in Guangzhou contain too much cadmium, a toxin and carcinogen that can damage the kidneys, a three-month investigation by the city's food safety...

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Corn overtakes rice as diners continue to move to meat

7 Jan 2013

The mainland produced more corn than rice for the first time on record in the 2012-13 season, as surging incomes fuelled demand for meat, prompting farmers to focus more on animal feed.

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Bid to lift hybrid rice yield to 15 tonnes a hectare slammed

28 Nov 2012

A farming pioneer's ambitious goal to increase the yield of hybrid rice by 11 per cent in the next three years risks making the staple more vulnerable to weather, disease and pests, agriculture...

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China officials to probe study that fed golden rice to Hunan primary pupils

7 Sep 2012

Mainland health authorities launched an investigation into a reportedly trial of genetically modified rice on Hunan primary- school children, s

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A community blighted by pollution

In a ward at the People's No 2 Hospital in Shifang , 37-year-old peasant Yin Yanjun told a student 21 years his junior: 'I'm sure you guys have never experienced a real blue sky in Shifang .'

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Grain law may leave farmers in the cold: experts

If a Sino-US deal did not drive home the message that food security is one of Beijing's priorities, Xi Jinping's return to America's agricultural heartland this month surely did.

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Park fair opens with mini heaters a likely hot item

To lure people outdoors, exhibitors will provide warm food and heaters as the Hong Kong Brands and Products Expo kicks off today.

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A rice harvest dripping with bloody potential

An old dream of biotechnologists is to produce human proteins not by microbes or animals, but in an 'unbloody' way: by genetically manipulated or transgenic plants. Such plants can be grown and...

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Rice price set to rise as Thailand floods hit exports

The price of rice is due to rise as flooding in Thailand - Hong Kong's biggest supplier - cuts into exports.

The flood could destroy six to seven million tonnes of paddy rice, the...

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