KFC’s new offering - ‘healthier’ griddled chicken

September 15th, 2009 BEIJING - China Tuesday said it had begun investigating the alleged dumping of auto and chicken products from the US, Ministry of Commerce spokesman Yao Jian said. The ministry Sunday said domestic enterprises had complained that chicken and auto products from the US were allegedly entering the Chinese market through unfair trade involving dumping and subsidy.

August 5th, 2009 LONDON - An attempt by a Pakistani-born British MP to patent the Chicken Tikka Masala as a dish of Scottish origin has fallen foul of Indian chefs and food experts. Labour MP Mohammed Sarwar has tabled an Early Day Motion in Britain's lower house of parliament claiming the Chicken Tikka Masala - once crowned Britain's national dish - originated in the Scottish city of Glasgow.

August 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Top Indian chefs have warned Scottish MPs to keep their hands off the rights to chicken tikka masala. Zaeemuddin Ahmad, a chef at Delhi's Karim Hotel, which was established by the last chef of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, claimed the recipe had been passed down through the generations in his family.

August 3rd, 2009 GLASGOW - A Glasgow chef has claimed that Britain's popular chicken tikka massala did not originate in the UK, but in Scotland. Sixty-four-year-old Ahmed Aslam Ali, the founder of Shish Mahal, is claiming that he invented the dish, and is now calling on the European Union to give it "Protected Designation of Origin" status, alongside the likes of Champagne, Parma Ham and Greek Feta cheese.

July 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Kentucky Fried Chickens (KFC) original recipe is perhaps one of the most closely guarded trade secrets, but Ron Douglas from Glen Cove claims he's almost figured it out. Douglas spent years experimenting with different techniques in an attempt to reproduce KFC's Original Recipe.

July 15th, 2009 LONDON - KFC has come under fire over "misleading" claims that fresh chicken is delivered to each of its branch on a daily basis. The fast food chain broadcast an advertisement, saying: "KFC.

July 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A writer claims to have busted the "myths" behind the claims made by leading brands like Coke and Kentucky Fried Chicken to emphasise the uniqueness of their secret-ingredient-containing products. William Poundstone, in his book "Big Secrets", says that laboratory tests can easily reveal what chemicals and ingredients appear in what quantities of a given sample of food.

July 3rd, 2009 LONDON - A West End style restaurant called "The Clink" has opened up inside Her Majesty's Prison High Down. iners can eat a two-course meal at the prison restaurant in Sutton, Surrey, for six pounds, reports The Telegraph.

June 4th, 2009 LONDON - Chicken secretly injected with beef and pork waste is being sold across Britain. In a hi-tech fraud run by firms in three EU states, food manufacturers are making bulking agents out of porcine and bovine gristle and bones that help inflate chicken breasts, so that they fetch a higher price.

May 10th, 2009 LONDON - Being a nerd might not help you land a hot date, but it will certainly keep dozens of health problems at bay, concludes a new research. A study, which included 3654 Vietnam War veterans, has found that men with lower IQs are more likely to suffer from loads of health issues - from hernias, to ear inflammation, to cataracts - compared with those showing greater intelligence.

May 7th, 2009 LONDON - It's official: Money is the key to enjoying longer and healthier life. According to a new study, for the Economic and Social Research Council, people with more wealth and better education are less likely to develop illness and tend to die later than those who are poorer and less welleducated.

April 9th, 2009 LONDON - Oscar winning actor Russell Crowe is shooting in Surrey and is avoiding the food from the fancy Pennyhill Park hotel. Instead he is making trips to the local curry house for chicken tikka masala.

April 9th, 2009 LONDON - Russell Crowe reportedly turned down the option of having posh hotel cuisine in favour of a local curry house in Surrey. The 'Beautiful Mind' star was said to have visited the Mogul, in Bagshot, siz times in two weeks while staying at plush Pennyhill Park Hotel.

April 5th, 2009 LONDON - Reese Witherspoon says that whenever she feels down in the dumps she reaches for a bucket of fried chicken. And the 'Monsters Vs Aliens' star refuses to cut back on her food.

February 10th, 2009 LONDON - The humble Chicken Tikka Masala, Britain's favourite food, is to become a spicy staple of the British soldier in the first update of the army's ration since the Cold War era. The uniquely Indo-British invention, described by the late Foreign Secretary Robin Cook as Britain's 'national dish', will join 20 new menus designed to meet the varying tastes of British soldiers across the world.