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SUGAR EXPORTS
BY MARK ROWE
THE FIRST meeting of the world’s five largest sugar exporters has agreed to co-ordinate efforts to boost prices in the commodity’s international market from current record lows. Meeting in Bangkok, representatives of Thailand, Australia, Brazil, South Africa and Guatemala agreed to speed up co-operation and seek to lift world prices without raising domestic retail prices.…
US-VIETNAM DEAL
BY PHILIP FINE
THE US government has signed a bilateral textile pact with Vietnam that gives the south-east Asian country the most generous access to the American market ever granted in an initial two-country agreement, according to a critical American Textile Manufacturers’ Institute (ATMI).…
VIETNAM-USA DEAL
Keith Nuthall
THE USA government signed a bilateral textile pact with Vietnam that gives the south-east Asian country generous access to the US market. The American Textile Manufacturers’ Institute is angry at its government for granting Vietnam an estimated US$2 billion (Pounds 1.24 billion) in access to a domestic sector that saw 3,000 jobs lost in the last quarter.…
ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES - PIPES ETC
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has agreed a complicated, but flexible, set of anti-dumping duties to be levied upon certain flat rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel from Bulgaria, South Africa, Serbia & Montenegro and Taiwan; plus certain iron and steel tube and pipe fittings from Thailand, the Czech Republic, Malaysia, South Korea, Russia and Slovakia.…
BALKANS WATER
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Bank report has called on the governments of the Balkans to pay more attention to the quality of their respective water sources and supplies, warning that neglect is leading to increases in pollution and damage from flooding.…
SRI LANKA FLOODS
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
SRI Lanka Insurance Corporation officials are assessing catastrophic losses that have hit the country’s tea industry which have been wrought by flooding devastating low-lying plantations. Early estimates predict that the island’s economy could lose as much as SLRupees 2.8 billion (US$28.79 million) because of the disaster.…
SRI LANKA FLOODS
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
SRI Lanka Insurance Corporation officials are assessing catastrophic losses that have hit the country’s tea industry which have been wrought by flooding devastating low-lying plantations. Early estimates predict that the island’s economy could lose as much as SLRupees 2.8 billion (US$28.79 million) because of the disaster.…
MILLENNIUM EDUCATION GOALS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS with many projects inspired by the start of the next 997 years and the last three, the framing of the United Nations’ (UN) Millennium Development Goals was an ambitious enterprise.
Imposing statistically measurable targets for international organisations and national governments in making improvements in global poverty, education, gender equality, health, the environment and education, they have proved tough to attain.…
ANGLO AMERICAN
BY RICHARD HURST
NATURAL resources giant Anglo American has recently announced that its wholly owned forest products subsidiary, Mondi South Africa, is to proceed with a US$220 million expansion and modernisation of its Richards Bay pulp mill in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, increasing its capacity for bleached eucalyptus pulp production by some 40 per cent.…
BOLIVIA MINE AID
BY PHILIP FINE
AN AREA of northern Bolivia is to be the focus of an innovative Canadian aid mission designed to offer advice on preventing landslides in communities pock-marked with small mines, notably those for gold prospecting.
Canada will fund a team of scientists to help the community of Chima, a remote gold-mining village that was hit by a deadly landslide last month; the specialists want to ensure that they do not suffer from a repeat the tragedy and to help such communities better deal with such disasters, if they do occur.…