World Environment Day falls today:

Kick the habit: Towards a low carbon economy

However, the market for green products remains underdeveloped because people still find it difficult to locate products or trust their environmental claims. Sri Lanka, the organic food products are only confined to supermarkets as inorganic chemicals have reached the very hearts of even very rural localities and thus organic products are hard to find in the country.

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Asia's rise and West's response

Globalisation was good so long as it worked for the West but at the first sign of a shift of balance panic has broken out in Western capitals. Countries that lectured Third World countries on the harmful effect of state subsidies are now themselves fighting to retain massive agricultural subsidies to protect their own farmers from cheap food imports

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Barack Obama makes history, commands respect

Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama's skilful speech in St. Paul followed the rich text that had been released before he delivered it. Thematically, it recalled JFK's inaugural address, invoking generational change and offering up Obama as its bearer.

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