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CASHEW EXPORTS
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE CASHEW Export Promotion Council of India has claimed stiff competition from rival producers, such as Vietnam, depressed Indian cashew exports April-December 2003 to 72,042 tonnes, from 77,923 tonnes the previous year (April-December).…
COCONUT PRICES
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
WORLD coconut oil prices have continued to rise due to tight copra supply and bullish trends on the palm oil market, Philippines financial newspapers have reported.…
TEENAGE DEPRESSION
BY MONICA DOBIE
A USA Food and Drug Administration advisory committee has said that the regulator should issue stronger warnings to doctors about the possible link between antidepressants and suicidal thoughts among young people. These warnings should not discourage doctors from using such antidepressants, but alert them to signals that a drug might be having harmful effects, said the committee.…
EUDRALEX AUTHORISATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released updates to Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 5 of the European Union’s (EU) ‘notice to applicants for human medicinal products’ on procedures for central EU marketing authorisations, mutual recognition, referrals and variations of approvals.…
AMAZON FRACAS
BY MONICA DOBIE
SOME prominent authors have been unmasked as writing rave reviews for their own books or for colleagues when Amazon.com Canadian website glitch mistakenly revealed the identities of thousands of people who had anonymously posted book reviews. John Rechy, author of the best-selling 1963 novel “City of Night” and winner of the PEN-USA West lifetime achievement award admitted to the New York Times that he submitted a five star review of his own book.…
E-BAY - SHOES
BY PHILIP FINE
THE INTERNET auction house eBay is looking to lure sophisticated fashion shoppers onto its popular site. It signed up US designers Proenza Schouler, who will put up more than four dozen pairs of shoes, along with 50 garments, from recent New York fashion shows.…
PLANE SHOP
BY PHILIP FINE
A LOW-COST American air carrier has just set up a temporary retail shop in Boston to showcase its own wares that has been designed and furnished to look like one of its aeroplane cabins. Song, the low-fare unit run by Delta Air Lines, has opened the shop on a trial basis for two months.…
SAFER WORKPLACES
BY PHILIP FINE
US companies are reporting steadily declining numbers of workplace accidents and injuries that cost them time and money, said a recent report by The Conference Board, the country’s executive association. From 1999 to 2002, the number of lost-time cases per 100 full-time employees in surveyed firms declined by an average of more than 40 per cent, and recorded incidents have declined an average of more than 23 per cent – trends generally consistent with statistics reported to the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.…
MAD COW PANEL
BY PHILIP FINE
THE US government has been urged to further tighten safeguards on meat and animal feed by an independent international panel, made up of five scientists from Europe, New Zealand and the United States. It has recommended that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) test all high-risk cattle, such as those that die on farms or are too ill to walk, and also do random sampling of healthy cattle more than 30 months old.…
BURGER KING
BY PHILIP FINE
BURGER King’s president has resigned, the restaurant chain’s chief executive Brad Blum has announced. Bob Nilsen had been on the job for only a year. No reason was given for the departure nor has a replacement been announced.…