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Last updated: 18 May, 2008  
 Global Business
Soaring global food prices constitute "a regional challenge": Benita Ferrero-Waldner
EU-Latin America summit voices concern over food prices
DPA | 17 May, 2008
The European Union-Latin America-Caribbean (EU-LAC)summit stressed in its final declaration in Lima that participants were "deeply concerned by the impact of increased food prices", specifically citing troubled Haiti as an example.
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Earthquake not to dampen China corporate profit: JPMorgan Chase
Xinhua | 17 May, 2008
Profit for China's listed companies may grow 20 percent this year despite the strong quake that shook southwestern China, according to a senior official with JPMorgan Chase. 
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Pakistan's poor go hungry amid food shortages
Fakhr Ahmad | 17 May, 2008
Sukena, a middle-aged mother of two girls, argued with a shopkeeper as she reached her hands into the pockets of her burqa and counted money. All she had was Rs.25 (35 cents), barely enough to buy bread but no milk in the port city of Karachi. 
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Saudi Arabia to increase oil production
DPA | 17 May, 2008
Saudi Arabia would increase oil production by 300,000 barrels a day, Saudi officials said Friday, handing a diplomatic boost to US President George W. Bush during his official visit there. 
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UN forecasts slower global growth in 2008
Xinhua | 17 May, 2008
The world economic growth will drop steeply to 1.8 percent this year, from 3.8 percent in 2007, the UN said in a mid-year economic report. 
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