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Agriculture ministers from Europe, Africa and Canada warned on Saturday of riots and social unrest if action is not swiftly taken to improve food security and tackle price hikes. The ministers from Germany, France, Poland, Ukraine, Morocco, Kenya and Canada were unanimous on the causes and consequences of food shortages, which are pushing prices up.  The seven agriculture ministers agreed that renewing the threats of social instability and the sort of food riots witnessed in Mozambique,...

NEW YORK, Dec. 10, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- See video from Kia Motors Corporation at: http://www.thenewsmarket.com/Releases/StoryDetailPage.aspx?GUID=3445bce0-d8b0-456c-b642-d620fedaec2d Kia Motors America (KMA) celebrated the sale of its 100,000th Sorento CUV, the brand's first U.S.-built vehicle from Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia (KMMG) in West Point, Georgia. Since going on sale, Sorento has been Kia's best-selling vehicle for eleven consecutive months and is the first Kia vehicle to...

NEW YORK, Dec. 8, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- See video from Kia Motors Corporation at: http://www.thenewsmarket.com/Releases/StoryDetailPage.aspx?GUID=cda51699-ee16-4cb8-8982-0f2877efb9e1# Kia Motors Corporation announced its global sales figures for passenger cars (export sales, domestic sales and sales from overseas plants), recreational vehicles (RVs) and commercial vehicles for November 2010, recording a total of 179,200 units sold. This figure represents a year-on-year increase of 17.3%. In...

NEW YORK, Nov. 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- See video from Kia Motors Corporation at: http://www.thenewsmarket.com/CustomLink/CustomLinks.aspx?GUID=4bdaf21b-edaf-418e-a371-909168285f03&alertid=274cbeee-6f7e-4ab3-82aa-be75b3bde94c&bhcp=1 The 2010 Kia Soul, Kia Motors America's (KMA) value-laden and uniquely styled urban passenger vehicle, recently added another award to its trophy case with Kiplinger's Personal Finance's designation of "Best New Car for Your Teen" for the Soul+ (plus)...

NEW YORK, Nov. 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- See video from Kia Motors Corporation at: http://www.thenewsmarket.com/CustomLink/CustomLinks.aspx?GUID=62e0a6e9-9e15-4f57-a72e-06293b136631&alertid=4f9442bf-9963-4cfd-9a92-a2686637b495# Kia Motors Corporation announced its global sales figures for passenger cars (export sales, domestic sales and sales from overseas plants), recreational vehicles (RVs) and commercial vehicles for October 2010, recording a total of 182,288 units sold. This figure...

NEW YORK, Aug. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- See video from Kia at: http://www.thenewsmarket.com/Releases/StoryDetailPage.aspx?GUID=2b540b99-9c0a-468f-90fa-06c6c639d2e1 The 2010 Kia Soul urban passenger vehicle was recently named to the "2010 Top 10 Back-to-School Cars" list for the second year in a row by Kelley Blue Book's kbb.com, a leading provider of new car and used car information. The highly personalizable vehicle was praised for its modern styling, generous interior space and long-list of...

BEIJING, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Frbiz.com (http://www.frbiz.com ), one of China's leading B2B search platforms with more than 30 B2B industry websites to its name, reports agricultural products prices decline. With winter coming, Frbiz's analyst find that agricultural market prices over the previous week decreased by 0.1 percent; capital goods prices rose 0.3 percent over the previous week. Of 57 kinds of major consumer agricultural products, the prices have declined...

The Asian Development Bank, noting developing Asia's economic resilience, revised the region's 2009 economic growth forecast to 3.9 percent from 3.4 percent. Developing Asia is proving to be more resilient to the global downturn than was initially thought, the bank, based in Manila, said in its updated annual economic publication. The previous forecast was issued in March. The Asian growth projection for 2010 was also revised upward, from 6 percent to 6.4 percent. Despite worsening...

Impact of the economic crisis on children investigated in special issue of Global Social Policy, published by SAGE in conjunction with, and with the support of, UNICEFAs the economy continues to unravel, a series of papers published today assess the effects of the crisis on children's health, education, and rights in East Asia and the Pacific. Crisis for Children, a special issue of the journal Global Social Policy, asserts investments can be made that will not only advance children's rights...

The booklet is based largely on insights from two academic experts on food pricing - Dr. Steven Cummins, of Queen Mary, University of London, and Professor Derek Oddy, Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Westminster - for a public policy seminar organized by the ESRC for the Food Standards Agency.Dr Cummins draws on his research with Professor Sally MacIntyre, of the Medical Research Council, Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, and Dr Dianna M...