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Double trouble: Increasing tea & sugar deficits
2016-03-08 07:15:00| Sugar Industry News
Both tea and sugar have long become a part and parcel of our culture: they are intrinsic to our daily consumption, and their cultivation internationalised our commerce under British rule that helped the colony become the crown jewel of the British Empire. Since independence, we have increasingly produced far more consumers than all the tea or sugar harvested, generating a growing deficit. Started by the East India Company, tea production began along the Karnaphuli River from 1843, eventually shifting fulcrum to Sylhet 14 years later; while sugar was multinationalized and combined with tea by England in the 17th Century.
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Bank watch lists early warning sign of trouble for oil and gas industry
2016-03-06 17:57:29| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
In releasing their latest quarterly earnings, Royal Bank, CIBC and Scotiabank each added nine oil and gas firms to their loan watch lists, the latest sign of trouble in the oilpatch. The names of those companies are kept confidential.
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A drying Great Salt Lake spells trouble for Utah
2016-03-05 13:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
City Lab: The Great Salt Lake is drying up, thanks to 150 years of human diversions from the rivers that feed it. Thats the takeaway of a white paper released by a team of Utah biologists and engineers. And if those diversions continue ramping up, as a bill working its way through the Utah legislature proposes, the waterbody may face a withering fate similar to other dried-up salt lakes around the world. The namesake of Utahs capital city, the Great Salt Lake is the the states defining geographic feature...
Simply put: Why a popular brand of baby powder is in trouble - again
2016-02-29 02:21:20| Food - Topix.net
Jacqueline Fox and her son Marvin Salter are seen in this undated family photo released on February 24. Fox died last year of ovarian cancer. What's the controversy about Johnson & Johnson's talc-based baby powder, used widely by mothers in countries around the world? A US court last week ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $ 72 million in damages to the family of a woman whose death from ovarian cancer was linked to her prolonged use of the powder.
VIDEO: India's big top in big trouble
2016-02-12 12:53:55| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The BBC's Sameer Hashmi finds out why India's circuses are struggling.
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