The Brazilian government has inaugurated on Monday a condom factory that is aimed at providing livelihood to hundreds of Brazilian rubber tappers and at the same time help preserve the Amazon rain forest. In a statement, Brazil's Health Ministry said the factory in Xapuri, in the northwestern part of the capital Sao Paulo, has the capacity to produce 100 million condoms a year.

India's lucrative outsourcing sector is not limited to back office jobs. It is now emerging as a major supplier of "back bedroom jobs" as an infant outsourcing hub as well. According to the International Herald Tribune, reproduction is the newest addition to the Asian tiger's outsourcing industry. Couples from the United States and Europe are asking Indian women to serve as surrogate mothers, leading to a boom in the number of clinics offering the procedure.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Chiang Mai University are conducting a workshop in Thailand about insect consumption, collection, harvest, processing and marketing. The workshop aims to impart to forest managers the knowledge on insects and insect management possessed by traditional forest dwellers and forest-dependent people. It also aims to provide income and jobs in rural areas for people who capture, rear, process, transport and market edible insects.

Indian police swooped down on a Delhi suburb Sunday morning and arrested five people, including a doctor, on suspicion of removing kidneys from young men without their consent with the intent of selling them to wealthy patients. Local reports said that the illegal organ transplant trade was being operated in a private hospital in Gurgaon, just outside Delhi, where at least 500 kidneys have already been illegally transplanted.

eading Australian dictionary Macquarie has added 85 new words and phrases grouped in 17 categories from business to travel. The collection includes odd words such as 'toad juice', 'slummy mummies', and 'arse antlers' among others. 'Toad juice' is defined as a foul-smelling liquid fertilizer produced from pulverizing cane toads, pests that devastate native wildlife. 'Slummy mummies' refer to mothers who are oblivious to their personal appearance, an antonym of which is so-called yummy mommies. And 'arse antlers' is another term for a tattoo just above the buttocks.