While China presents huge commercial opportunities, it has raised international concerns over human rights, environmental degradation, working conditions in its factories and copyright infringement not to mention the troubling long-term implications of Beijing's political, military and economic muscle-flexing. The four-day festival features 90 bands performing on five stages, with music styles ranging from hardcore punk and metal to electronic, dance and folk music. With its 1.3 billion...

Her long-term goal is to become a farm production consultant for dairy and beef cattle and other livestock. Also taking part were Clarissa Mahlum, a senior at West Salem High School who resides in Bangor; Amanda Nuttleman, a Bangor native who is a sophomore at Viterbo University; and Erica Nuttelman, a West Salem native who is a sophomore at Western Technical College. She presently works as a university campus tour guide and, during the summer, she will work as an assistant manager at the...

Market analysts, brokers and other traders said cattle traded this week at $96 to mostly $96. Market analysts and brokers said the trading in the Texas/Oklahoma area was done with an estimated 48,000 head changing hands. Urner Barry's Yellow Sheet Friday said warmer weather in some of the more populated regions of the country has many participants looking for an up tick in retail beef demand this weekend. The volume of loads sold as of midday stood at 168 for fabricated cuts and 57 for...

The train left the southern city of Dunedin for a party to introduce the bachelorettes to rural bachelors. Social change during the past 50 years has seen more New Zealand women migrate to cities for education and careers, and men now account for 80 percent of the population in some remote areas. The train ride, started in 2001 and held every other year, is one of several private initiatives -- including a singles ball and dating service -- aiming to revitalize agricultural communities in...

It was discovered almost by accident by Victorian scientists who were investigating ways to increase the health benefits of cows' milk. Scientists in Melbourne are testing a compound found in the wallabies' milk, and the BIO2007 conference in Boston has heard it could prove vital in the war on antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Premier Steve Bracks is representing Victoria's biotech sector at the conference, saying pre-clinical trials of the "wallaby-based weapon" were under way after its...