Maglaya said that prices of agricultural commodities are prone to movement during the rainy months, but easily slide back to normal immediately after typhoons. The government has ordered tight monitoring of prices as well as the supply of basic commodities until the Christmas season, on the back of the expected uptick in demand, the Department of Trade and Industry said. Favila said that gasoline price hikes play a small part in bidding up overall inflation, since the peso s appreciation...

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If Georgia has its way-and draws more water from upstream-Barber said the results could devastate the oyster industry From the harvester to the distributor to the dinner table. Georgia wants to hold back some of the water that flows through its rivers into Florida and Alabama because it's in a drought. In fact, they produce 90% of the oysters for distribution throughout the state of Florida. The area is one of the most fertile regions for oyster harvesting. But that cost is measured by...

A number of disgruntled consumers have taken their complaints directly to their leaders, telling President Chen Shui-bian that they can barely make ends meet. Inflation, fanned by soaring prices for fuel and other commodities, has become a hot political issue in Taiwan, as the island moves toward legislative elections in January 2008 and a presidential poll two months later. TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The stout man in a blue apron handed out discounted fried dough stuffed with minced green...

Some NRCES members were sent to the San Francisco Bay area earlier this month, to assist with cleanup efforts after a ship spilled 58,000 gallons of fuel into the bay. Environmental disasters like these are seemingly inevitable in industrial communities like Long Beach, Wilmington and San Pedro, but it's the job of cleanup specialists like NRC Environmental Services to ensure the spill does as little ecological damage as possible. Environmental disasters like these are seemingly inevitable...