Archive for  December 2012
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Vietnam has secured a contract to export 300,000 tonnes of rice to Haiti in 2013 to help meet demand from the Caribbean island that has been hit by a string of natural disasters this year,
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Japan's Kobe Steel will cancel a plan to build an aluminium products plant in China amid uncertainties over sales outlook to its major customers, such as Japanese automakers, after a territorial row between Beijing and
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ICE Canada canola futures edged higher on Monday, recovering modestly from the previous week's biggest weekly loss in over a month. Trading volumes were light early. ICE Futures Canada will be closed on Tuesday and
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Vietnamese coffee exporters kept their quotations on par with London futures prices on Tuesday, while buyers were slow to make purchases quiet during the holidays, traders said on Tuesday. The 2012/2013 crop harvest has almost
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Shanghai copper edged up on Tuesday, tracking gains in China's stock market led by property shares, while worries about a potential US fiscal calamity and uncertainty over China's copper demand outlook capped gains. The Chinese
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Benchmark Tokyo rubber futures rose 1.6 percent on Tuesday to hit a three-month high on a weaker yen, with some participants forecasting more gains as the year ends. The yen hit a 20-month low against
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Palm oil on the European vegetable oils market firmed on Monday, supported by higher Malaysian futures, amid very thin activity as many participants took off the day before Christmas or worked a half day. Markets
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A move to include Iraqi crude in the benchmark price for nearly $500 billion of Middle East oil sold to Asia annually would make for a more robustly traded but also a potentially more volatile
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The ANP led provincial government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has initiated unprecedented gigantic Rs 494,857 million ten-year, (Education sector plan) in the province. According to a document on the achievements of the present provincial government in
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At least seven persons including two teenage girls were killed and 20 others injured in separate road accidents due to dense fog in different areas of southern Punjab on Tuesday. According to police, the first
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