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China Finds Heavy Coronavirus Traces In Seafood, Meat Sections Of Beijing Food Market

China has found the trading sections for meat and seafood in Beijing's wholesale food market to be severely contaminated with the new coronavirus and suspe...

Norway's Salmon Exports To China Fell Amid Virus Outbreak

Norwegian salmon exports to China fell by a third last week to 240 tonnes, Norway's state-owned seafood marketing organisation has said. The 34% decline...

Shipping Firm Maersk Says Q2 Demand Beats Initial Expectations

A.P. Moller-Maersk, the world's top container shipping firm, has said that market demand is more favourable than originally expected in the second quarter....

China Pork Crisis Spurs Pig Farms' Return To Cities

China is building industrial pig farms near its urban areas, reversing years of policies to relocate the livestock over waste concerns, as the government p...

Argentina Jockeys To Get Its Barley Into Chinese Beer

Argentina is jockeying to get more of its malt barley into Chinese beer, now that Asia's mega-economy is locked in a trade fight with its top barley s...

The Future Is Orange: Campari Tests Selling Aperol In China

Campari is testing selling Aperol in China as the Italian spirits group looks to its photogenic orange-flavoured aperitif to revive sales hit by the corona...

Soybeans Firm On China Sales Hopes, Wheat Falls

Chicago soybeans rose on Tuesday on hopes China will continue buying US supplies even though there are expectations that purchases will be halted because o...

Alibaba Revenue, Profit Beat Estimates As Online Sales Surge During Lockdown

China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd reported better-than-expected quarterly revenue and profit, as the COVID-19 lockdowns drove more people to shop online fo...