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Obviously feeling braver than the UK Met Office, the US government’s Climate Prediction Center (CPC) last week gave a long-term forecast that the deadly El Nino weather anomaly should dissipate by early summer in the northern
Full story...Another company joins the modest number of palm oil producers on the London market as Equatorial Palm Oil takes a bow on AIM after raising a gross £6.5 million. A bit of research indicates that this is the first since New Britain
Full story...In a move likely to have far reaching effects India, a major player in international food import and export markets, is making a push to increase the size of its food bowl after a poor monsoon season cut harvests. Failure of much
Full story...Going global is great in terms of ideas, but not so much when it comes to checking them out. Take the new farming opportunities opened up by food shortfalls forecast as the world’s population surges – it is expected to rise from
Full story...More corporate action in the booming fertiliser sector! This time it was a US$4.1 billion all-cash bid from Yara International, the world’s largest listed fertiliser specialist, for Terra Industries, its US competitor. The price
Full story...When I returned to Australia after a prolonged trip to Europe I ran into an extremely well-known Labor elder statesman. Diplomacy dictates I don't mention his name. After an exchange of pleasantries he said to me, unprompted:
Full story...Taking a look at the world’s food markets the Indian analysts IGD pointed last week to phenomenal speed at which India and China’s appetites for groceries are growing. China will become world leader in the grocery market by 2014,
Full story...Their products may be on most governments’ hit lists, but the London quoted tobacco companies, among the largest groups keeping farmers busy, are on most brokers’ “buy” lists. No wonder - despite the best efforts of the
Full story...Even as commodity markets turned bearish, following other markets into a state of jitters about Europe’s economies, the second-largest of the largest US public pension funds announced it was considering investing in them. The
Full story...Porkers are in – Cranswick has just come out with third-quarter trading statement to prove it. The market thought it was a tasty morsel, too, and the pork meat supplier’s share price soared 45p to 800p, a new 12-month high. The
Full story...Fertilisers were where it was all happening last week, as supplies started to run low and the world’s two largest mining groups announced plans to spend a total of US$4.9 billion on acquisitions in the market. Vale is to buy a 16
Full story...Russia’s anti-trust buster, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), has established a record of making much ado about little; and of regulating only those corners of the Russian market where no oligarch-sized interest is
Full story...Soaring sugar prices are brightening prospects for Europe’s sugar businesses and attracting Chinese corporate buyers. Germany’s Sudzucker announced a 68 per cent rise in operating profits as sugar prices traded at 29 year highs
Full story...Traders beware – the head of the US commodity trading regulator is still hard on the heels of anything that smacks of unbridled speculation. The US regulator’s new stance may not be as tough as feared, in case trade is driven
Full story...Futures-based funds may not be the best way of making money in commodities, even though they are among the fastest growing fund sector, warned international investment research group Morningstar last week. In 2009 exchange traded
Full story...The Russian Trade and Inspection Agency (Rospotrebnadzor) has initiated new chlorine limits for poultry processing, commencing this month. The effect will be to cut imports well below the quota levels announced last month,
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FINANCIAL RESULTS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2009
Report Of Persons Occupying Managerial Positions Who Are Related To A Director; CEO Or Substantial Shareholder
UPDATES ON PROPOSED INVESTMENT, PROPOSED RESTRUCTURING OF OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE BOND SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT
ADJUSTMENT TO EXERCISE PRICE AND NUMBER OF EXERCISABLE WARRANTS ISSUED PURSUANT TO THE RIGHTS ISSUE
(I) Updates On Proposed Investment, Proposed Restructuring Of Obligations Under The Bond Subscription Agreement; (Ii) Discharge Of Receiver And Lifting Of Suspension Status
ADJUSTMENT TO EXERCISABLE SHARE OPTIONS AND EXERCISABLE WARRANTS
(I) Application For Lifting Of Suspension Status; (II) Request For Extension Of Time To Comply With Catalist Rule 724 (The "Waiver")
ADJUSTMENT TO EXERCISE PRICE OF EXERCISABLE WARRANTS ISSUED PURSUANT TO THE PROPOSED TRIUMPH SUBSCRIPTION AND THE PROPOSED LITEBAY SUBSCRIPTION
Adjustments To Exercise Price And/Or Number Of Exercisable Warrants Issued Pursuant To The proposed Triumph Subscription, Proposed Litebay Subscription And Rights Issue
Update: (1) Demands From PRC Banks (2) EPC Contracts Awarded To Wuhan Kaidi Water Technology Co., Ltd
PROPOSED INVESTMENT, PROPOSED RIGHTS ISSUE AND PROPOSED RESTRUCTURING OF
Announcement Of Cessation As Financial Controller And Company Secretary
Announcement Of Appointment Of Financial Controller And Company Secretary
NADL awarded damages of $3.3m in litigation case
NADL awarded damages of $3.3m in litigation case
NADL awarded damages of $3.3m in litigation case
