(30 April 2008) ADB - Some 3,000 leaders of government, the private sector, academe and civil society from around the world will gather in Madrid this week for the 41st Annual Meeting of the Asian Development Bank - the leading development organization in the world’s most dynamic and fastest growing region.

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Hemscott - London,UK
The grouping of Mekong nations would be similar to the oil cartel OPEC, and would be called the Organisation of Rice Exporting Countries (OREC). …

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National Geographic - Washington,DC,USA
He had just spent a week in the remote Mekong River in northern Cambodia, searching for the ray—which could be the world’s largest freshwater fish—to no avail. …

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Thanh Nien Daily - Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam
The Vietnam Food Association (VFA) said it would begin to release 1.2 million tons of rice from its stockpiles to supply Ho Chi Minh City and Mekong Delta …

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Nhan Dan - Hanoi,Vietnam
Mekong river delta provinces have just harvested this year winter-spring crop with a total estimated output of 9.4 million tonnes, up 300000 tonnes compared …

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AFP - In other southern towns, including the Mekong delta hub of Can Tho, prices also went up fast, while some distributors stockpiling rice and turning away …

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Thanh Nien Daily - Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam
To entice more visitors, tourism in the Mekong Delta region needs a revamp to end the practice of multiple operators offering “same same” services and …

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HANOI (AFP) — Asia’s rainforests are being rapidly destroyed, a trend accelerated by surging timber demand in booming China and India, and record food, energy and commodity prices, forest experts warn.

The loss of these biodiversity hot spots, much of it driven by the illegal timber trade and the growth of oil palm, biofuel and rubber plantations, is worsening global warming, species loss and poverty, they said.

Globally, tropical forest destruction “is a super crisis we are facing, it’s an appalling crisis,” said Oxford University’s Professor Norman Myers, keynote speaker at the Asia-Pacific Forestry Week conference in Hanoi.

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VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi,Vietnam
Despite high rice export prices and the Mekong delta experiencing a bumper winter-spring rice crop with more than 9.3 million tonnes of …

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By Marwaan Macan-Markar

BANGKOK, Apr 25 (IPS) - The headlines screaming about a global food shortage have not aroused surprise in a leading non-governmental organisation (NGO) working with farming communities across Asia. To its members, warnings of hunger on a biblical scale are hardly news. …

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