Subsequent investigations revealed that the diethylene glycol found in the cough syrup had a Chinese origin and that it had been passed off to a Spanish company as 99. At the end of a long and difficult global investigation, they discovered the source diethylene glycol-contaminated medicine used to treat fevers in small children. Somehow a deadly chemical had found its way into cough syrup produced in a government laboratory. The modus operandi was also the same: bulk chemicals...

By Manuel Roig-Franzia Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, November 19, 2007; Page A12 MEXICO CITY -- Long before the devastating flooding this month in the state of Tabasco, Mexico's behemoth state-run oil company, Petr leos Mexicanos, was pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into local government coffers for flood abatement projects. By Manuel Roig-Franzia Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, November 19, 2007; Page A12 MEXICO CITY -- Long before the devastating flooding this...

We gain a greater export boost than each of the partners, while they each gain a larger stimulus to their gross domestic product (GDP), given the relative sizes of our economies. Congressional approval of the Colombia and Panama agreements will bring to 12 the number of countries in the Americas with which we have reciprocal trading partnerships. farm exports that will receive immediate duty-free access to Colombia include high-quality beef, cotton, wheat, soybeans and soybean meal,...

She portrays centralized alternative energy as dependent on a high-density feedstock (natural gas field, palm oil plantation), long-distance delivery of the raw materials (using a lot of energy to be moved) and a negative economic balance for the end-user community. King and her husband, Bob, already run 10 biodiesel refineries, with a total capacity less than 40 mg. Maui News . Renewable not the same as sustainable. She portrays centralized alternative energy as dependent on a...

If all the state exchequer does is ratify capital spending based on invoices, then I'd like to be in charge of it, sounds like an easy job, Thuyet said. Phat promised the ministry would step up efforts to implement human resource (HR) development strategies, particularly in the rural areas, to beef up the poverty alleviation. Ninh said the ministry had no way to control contractors and investors if they connived with each other to skim funds off the top, as the state exchequer only used...