Arkansas orders Chinese-owned seed producer Syngenta to sell US farmland
CHICAGO, Oct 17 (Reuters) – Arkansas ordered Syngenta to sell 160 acres (65 hectares) of farmland in the U.S. state within two years on Tuesday because the company is Chinese-owned, drawing a sharp rebuke from the global seeds producer. U.S. farm groups and lawmakers are increasingly scrutinizing foreign land ownership due to concerns about national […]
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Tyson Foods moves corporate jobs to Arkansas in latest blow to Chicago
CHICAGO, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Tyson Foods Inc (TSN.N) is joining other corporate heavyweights in moving jobs out of Illinois. The biggest U.S. meat company by sales said on Wednesday it will relocate all corporate employees from offices in Chicago and suburban Downers Grove, along with those in Dakota Dunes, South Dakota, to its headquarters […]
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Peru conservative Opus Dei businessman elected mayor of Lima
LIMA, Oct 3 (Reuters) – Conservative businessman Rafael Lopez Aliaga won a closely contested election to become mayor of Peru’s capital Lima on Monday after his rival, retired military officer Daniel Urresti, accepted his defeat. In his first public statements since Sunday’s election, Lopez Aliaga said he would wait for the final official results before […]
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