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BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg

SOUTH Africa and China have entered into a textile and clothing agreement to limit the flood of Chinese imports into Africa’s biggest clothing manufacturing centre.

Initialled during an official visit to South Africa by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, it offers a lifeline to the beleaguered South African textile industry, which has shed jobs and factories because of a surge in cheap Chinese imports.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

STRONG demand for leather luggage in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is lining the pockets of tanners in Italy, Pakistan and Thailand.

According to a recent global online survey by marketing data company AC Nielsen, the UAE ranks among the top five countries worldwide for luxury branded luggage bags.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

HIGH import duties that especially restrict international trade in spirits will be chopped under a draft overall agreement for the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Doha Development Round agricultural liberalisation talks. These were issued last week by talks chairman Crawford Falconer, aiming at securing a deal by July 31.…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg

SECURITY specialists and risk assessors will be increasingly in demand within oil majors seeking to tap sub-Saharan Africa’s oil and gas riches in the next few years, experts say, with available resources and political uncertainty growing in an uneasy parallel.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

THE INDIAN army has launched an extermination attack on an exploding rat population in India’s northeastern hills, using mass poisoning and traps to avert an environmental disaster. Specialists say the unprecedented swarms of rats in the forests of Mizoram and Manipur states have been caused by the rare flowering of bamboo plants, which grow in thousands of square miles bordering
Myanmar (Burma).…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg, South Africa and DAVID HAWORTH, in Taiwan

TRADITIONAL health care systems do not always get a good press, being accused of incorporating superstition and poor medical practice. To some western public health advocates, they are akin to bringing back the leach.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is negotiating guaranteed 2006/7 cane sugar prices for deliveries from India plus the African, Caribbean, Pacific (ACP) block of countries: probably Euro 631.90/tonne for white sugar and Euro 496.80/tonne for raw sugar.

ENDS…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels

IT is not often that Jan Figel, the European Union (EU) Commissioner for education, training and multilingualism makes headlines. Not only is the Slovak modest to a fault, but as under EU treaties, education policy is controlled by national governments, his responsibilities rarely get the headlines which other policy areas attract.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

"WE will expedite the adoption of accounting standards in alignment with the International Accounting Standards", said India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in a recent statement (18th March 06). With this, he cleared all doubt about his government’s support for the adoption in India of global accounting norms.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels

IT is not often that Jan Figel, the European Union (EU) Commissioner for education, training and multilingualism makes headlines. Not only is the Slovak modest to a fault, but as under EU treaties, education policy is controlled by national governments, his responsibilities rarely get the headlines which other policy areas attract.…