Thursday October 22, 2009

Malaysia Nanban reported that vegetable farmers in Cameron Highlands will continue to dump cabbages in front of the Cameron Highlands Federal Agriculture Marketing Authority (Fama) to protest the low price of the vegetable.

Cameron Highlands Vegetable Growers Association secretary Chay Ee Mong said the farmers were incurring losses since August due to the slump in the price of round cabbages.

Comment by SHEILA SINGAM

The Government must look for a strategy to stimulate domestic demand while making Malaysia attractive to foreign visitors.

MIXED messages are part and parcel of Malaysian life. Mostly, this is due to Malaysians’ proclivity for dissecting and analysing information over copious amounts of teh tarik, throwing in their two bits’ worth, flavouring it with a large dose of scepticism, then disseminating it to equally cynical listeners.

The hot topic these days that is doing the rounds at mamak shops hinges around the vital question: “Is our economy on the road to recovery or is the Government trying to get us to look at it through rose-tinted glasses?”

By Vivienne Walt Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008

Add this to the list of items that could seriously threaten world peace: food.

Rocketing food prices — some of which have more than doubled in two years — have sparked riots in numerous countries recently. Millions are reeling from sticker shock and governments are scrambling to staunch a fast-moving crisis before it spins out of control. From Mexico to Pakistan, protests have turned violent. Rioters tore through three cities in the West African nation of Burkina Faso last month, burning government buildings and looting stores. Days later in Cameroon, a taxi drivers' strike over fuel prices mutated into a massive protest about food prices, leaving around 20 people dead. Similar protests exploded in Senegal and Mauritania late last year. And Indian protesters burned hundreds of food-ration stores in West Bengal last October, accusing the owners of selling government-subsidized food on the lucrative black market. "This is a serious security issue," says Joachim von Braun, director-general of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), in Washington. In recent weeks, he notes, he has been bombarded by calls from officials around the world, all asking one question: How long will the crisis last?

12:00 AM CDT on Saturday, September 5, 2009
FROM WIRE REPORTS Deborah Yao, The Associated Press

Parents who install a leading brand of software to monitor their kids' online activities may be unwittingly allowing the company to read their children's chat messages – and sell the marketing data gathered.

Software sold under the Sentry and FamilySafe brands can read private chats conducted through Yahoo, MSN, AOL and other services, and send back data on what kids are saying about such things as movies, music or video games. The information is then offered to businesses seeking to tailor their marketing messages to kids.