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...bluffing. Within days, as throngs rioted in front of Switzerland's embassy in Tripoli, the Libyan government shut down local subsidiaries of Swiss companies Nestlé and ABB, arrested two Swiss citizens, canceled most flights to Switzerland, and, on Thursday afternoon, announced that all Swiss-bound oil exports will be stopped until charges against the Gaddafis are dropped and the Swiss offer their apologies...
...Even business has got into the act. Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, head of Nestlé , the world's largest food and drink company, said the enormous biofuel subsidies being proffered by Brussels and Washington are "morally unacceptable and irresponsible." And environmental groups, which championed biofuels just a few years ago, have warned that they might even be worse than fossil fuels. "Biofuels are no green panacea," says Adrian Bebb, a spokesman for Friends of the Earth. "They can damage the climate and wreck rainforests. The public is being conned if it thinks they are a green solution...
...average Americans get 226 more calories [946 kJ] a day from beverages than they did a generation ago, and the number of overweight and obese children is up 360%. Clearly, Americans need to drink more water, whether bottled or tap. People want to make environmentally responsible choices, and Nestlé Waters does too. Our Ecoshape half-liter bottle has less plastic than any comparably sized beverage container in the U.S. - and all our plastic bottles are recyclable. We make all our small plastic containers in-house and don't truck them to our plants. What's needed most, though...
Founded last year, it's Africa's first such event, and it's sponsored and supported by the Dutch, French and U.S. embassies, global corporations like Nestlé and environmental groups like the Ghana Wildlife Society. Last year around 1,000 attended, including Kofi Agbogah, a scientist from Ghana's Water Research Institute: "The great thing about the festival was that people saw [the movies] on the screen and immediately understood the politics and complexity of the issues. Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks...
...China for steel and other commodities that constitute the core of its industry. While that pace may not be sustainable - growth is expected to fall to about 6.5% this year - Ukraine continues to run up sizable trade surpluses. Some big consumer-goods firms, including the Swiss food giant Nestlé, already have plants in the country and are eager to build up their market share. But compared to its neighbors, Ukraine remains relatively poor and deprived of investment. Measured by per-capita gross domestic product, Ukraine's 48 million inhabitants have just one-fifth the wealth of Poland...