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BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi
HIGH crude oil prices, rapidly growing domestic demand, depleting reserves, and the absence of any really significant new oil discoveries in India has forced local oil and gas companies to exploit small and remote clusters of petroleum deposits, namely ‘marginal oil fields’.…

BY DINAH GARDNER, in Beijing
IT was already two years late, but China’s newest and biggest nuclear reactor has just been judged ready for full operation. The Russian-built 1060 MWe Tianwan nuclear power reactor in the eastern port city of Lianyungang in Jiangsu province came on line in January.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

THE FIRST real-data study on the shark fin trade has estimated that 38 million sharks are killed annually: significantly higher than the 10 million accepted by the UN, although lower than the 100 million of some rough estimates.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will spend around Euro 4 million helping Cypriot, Greek and Portuguese wine producers export to the USA, Canada, Japan, China, India and other big non-European Union (EU) markets. As usual in these cases, Brussels is funding 50% of planned marketing programmes, matching financing from national governments or private sources.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a World Trade Organisation (WTO) case against India, where it could ask a disputes settlement panel to rule the high level of Indian spirits and wine import duties break WTO rules. They sometimes exceed 500%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will spend around Euro 4.7 million in helping German, Greek, Italian and Polish food producers and processors export to the USA, Canada, Japan, China, India and other big non-European Union (EU) markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will spend Euro 870,000 over two years in helping Polish meat producers and processors export to the USA, Canada, Japan, China, India and other big non-European Union (EU) markets. As usual in these cases, Brussels is funding 50% of planned marketing programmes, matching financing coming from nation governments or private sources.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has warned of a continued surge in counterfeits of perfumes and cosmetics entering the European Union (EU), with 694,633 fake products seized by customs officials last year. That said, this actually represents a fall in numbers from 2004, being 89% of the number seized in that year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has highlighted countries with particularly significant counterfeiting and piracy of medicinal products. Following 290 replies from businesses, trade associations and diplomatic missions, covering 63 countries, its survey report named Egypt as a real problem zone, criticising the December 2004 approval of 850 local copies of pharmaceuticals "without generic companies having to "prove the efficiency and safety of the copy".…

BY MONICA DOBIE

TECHNOLOGY developed by Nazi Germany and Apartheid era South Africa to turn coal into oil could guarantee solid fuels markets well into the future, an American geological expert has claimed.

University of Washington Professor Emeritus Eric Cheney said making oil from coal by reacting it with water known as Fischer-Tropsch process could become commercially successful given sustained high oil prices.…