The South African Post Office (Sapo) has paid tribute to the South African wine industry through a set of five small international letter rate stamps and a commemorative envelope that will be issued on Friday.
AUSTRALIA - From today, taxi drivers will be banned from taking passengers to liquor restricted premises if they have alcohol in their possession.
Eighteen months after a strategy was created to address what was being called an alcohol crisis" in Prince Albert, Sask., there are reports that the city's drinking culture is changing."
TOKYO - Around half of elderly male drinkers aged 65 or older consume alcohol in excess of the Japanese government's health guideline of a 500-milliliter can of beer per day, a health ministry survey showed Sunday.
Black-owned wine companies will get a foot into the Russian market when a group of importers visit South Africa next week.
Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed a way to detect counterfeit alcohol without even needing to touch the liquid.
Dutton Dunwich council may want no part of a provincial pot shop, but it's a different story on the rural municipality's main street.
As councillors forged ahead Wednesday on a path that could make Dutton Dunwich the first municipality in the province to declare it doesn't want the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) to sell marijuana in its local outlet, several residents said they wouldn't mind if pot was on the shelves.
A Kitchener, Ont. man who ended up in hospital while visiting family in the United States has learned the hard way that drinking alcohol can nullify your claim to insurance coverage.
Updated 1 Ireland is pushing for some of the most draconian alcohol retail laws in the EU to crack down on heavy drinking.
When Finland and Sweden joined the EU in 1995, one of the conditions was that the alcohol monopolies be broken up under Brussels competition rules.