BUENOS AIRES Cheap Nike Free Metcon , Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Small-scale farmers from north Argentina gave away some 30,000 kilos of bananas on Wednesday to protest unsustainable low prices and imports harmful to their business.
Disgruntled growers from several provinces traveled to the capital Buenos Aires, and parked their trucks in front of government headquarters, where they began to give bags of bananas away to lines of curious passersby.
Gladys Asselborn, member of an agricultural association that represents small local producers, told reporters growers had exhausted all other channels to no avail, forcing them to seek an audience with President Mauricio Macri.
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Argentinians consume about 12 kilos of bananas a year. The country opened up the sector to imports in the 1990s, and prices and production have since dropped.
The provinces of Misiones, Jujuy, Salta and Formosa can together supply some 25 percent of the national demand for bananas, but only represent about 10 percent of the market.
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BEIJING, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- Media professionals and experts expressed optimism about the future of traditional media during a forum in Beijing on Wednesday, despite challenges brought by the rise of social medial and citizen journalism.
Professional content is gaining an upper hand against User-Generated Content (UGC) in terms of user clicks on major Chinese websites, Li Haidong, researcher with CCTV Cheap Nike Epic React , the country's national broadcaster, said during the Global Video Media Forum (VMF) 2015 on Wednesday.
Two of China's biggest video portals, Tencent and Youku-Tudou, are considering cooperation with traditional media organizations to bring more professional content online to draw Internet users, according to Li.
Although UGC has been playing a bigger role in complementing traditional news gathering and reporting, especially for breaking news, it still lags behind in terms of quality, accuracy and depth Cheap Nike Air Maestro II , experts said.
John Pullman, global head of video & pictures at Reuters, said everyone can become an "i-witness", but that does not make them a journalist. "We should be careful that we don't undermine the goal of journalism."
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Kathleen Carroll, senior vice president & executive editor at Associated Press (AP), said AP is introducing Virtual Reality (VR), a cutting edge technology Cheap Nike Air Scream , into their reporting.
New inventions have enabled traditional media to expand their reach and hone their competitiveness over the past few years, said Zhao Zizhong, professor at New Media Institute of Communication University of China.
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The VMF is hosted by CCTV News Content (CCTV +), which now enters into its fifth year. CCTV + has also launched its newest global distribution system of video footage during the forum.
HELSINKI, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- The weight of the game industry in Finland was reflected in the annual taxation information published on Monday. Lasse Louhento, a designer of SuperCell, was listed as the recipient of "highest earned income" with 6.1 million euros (6.72 million U.S. dollars) and the tax rate was 52 percent.
The Helsinki-based game company was also the largest payer of corporate tax in Finland with 170 million euros, followed by the international pharmaceutical company Bayer and the Finnish forest industry giant UPM.
Even though privacy laws are strict in Finland, the personal income details of all taxpayers are published annually at the end of November and quoted widely in the media.
Rajeev Suri Cheap Nike Air Force 270 , the CEO of Nokia, had the highest personal income tax percentage in Finland. Some 60.1 percent was deducted as taxes from his 707,000-euro-salary. He had no capital gains income in Finland.
Supercell told media that several of its employees purchased company stock last year on the basis of options issues. Such purchase is taxed as an "earned income" even though the stock has not been sold.