Global sugar prices surge 10 pct in September: FAO

ROME: Global sugar prices surged by nearly 10 per cent in September to their highest level since 2010, pushed by decreased production from major suppliers and concerns about energy prices and the impacts of the El Nino weather phenomenon, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said Friday. FAO said sugar prices in September […]

Committed to less invasive logging methods

KUCHING: The Forest Department Sarawak (FDS) is committed to ensuring that the revised Reduced Impact Logging (RIL) guideline for Sarawak is on par with international standards. Its director Datuk Hamden Mohammad said the department had developed a guideline on RIL in 1999 based on the experience gained from two international collaboration projects — the Model […]

From Dungun to United Nations

KUALA TERENGGANU: Over the past eight years, Dungun-born Dr Salmaan Hussain Inayat Hussain has been and still is the only Malaysian toxicology expert ever appointed by the United Nations (UN) to look into the effects of pesticides on food. Of course, not many people know that fact, but indeed it is something to be proud of by all […]