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BY MONICA DOBIE

ENJOYING one unit of alcohol each day is generally considered healthy by most health practitioners in helping keep cholesterol levels down, but now researchers have found that injecting alcohol directly through the skin may also help combat cancer.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WITH the Asia Pacific paint industry being increasingly innovative in its development of paints and seeking specialist overseas markets for its products, the relevance of international standards for its manufacturing processes is becoming increasingly apparent.

Indeed, the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) (NOTE: ISO USES AMERICAN SPELLING FOR ITS NAME) last year picked the paint and coatings sector to launch its new collection of CD compilations of its standards.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa, and KEITH NUTHALL

IT would almost be hard for Canada not to be one of the seafood industry’s largest global players. After all, surrounded by the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific oceans and the Great Lakes as well, Canada has the world’s longest coastline (244,000 km).…

INTERVIEW – TONY NOWELL, ZESPRI.

BY KARRYN CARTELLE

THE WORLD leader in kiwifruit – New Zealand’s Zespri International – appeared on the scene in 1997, a whole 45 years after the first kiwifruit were exported from its home country’s shores. But despite such a late start the company has experienced rapid growth, securing the dominant position in the kiwifruit marketplace.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has imposed fines totalling Euro 328 million on six European Union (EU) companies making clothing fasteners and attaching machines, for operating cartels over the past 30 years. Britain’s Coats group was fined Euro 122.4 million; Japan’s YKK Group Euro 150.2 million; and Germany’s Prym Euro 40.5 million, while smaller fines of Euro 6 million were imposed on the USA’s Scovill Fasteners Inc; Euro 8.3 million on France’s A.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ALLEGED glaring loopholes in China’s fight against the counterfeiting of goods will now be examined in detail by a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes settlement panel, which was established yesterday (Tues) at the urging of the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission will close the bluefin tuna fishery in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean for rest of 2007 because the annual quota of 16,779.5 tonnes has been exhausted. Fisheries controlled by (Greek) Cyprus, Greece, Malta, Portugal and Spain will affected.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

Over 160 MEPs have signed a declaration demanding "country-of-origin" labelling on all clothing, footwear and other goods imported into the European Union. The formal text notes that such marking is particularly important for certain categories of goods such as textiles and clothing, jewellery, ceramics, glassware and furnishings "whose association with a place of production in the global market may communicate to the consumer much more than geographical information."…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo

IN the last 18 months, the reputation of the Japanese nuclear industry has been dragged through the mud in the wake of a series of scandals. So the very last thing it needed was a safety scare at one of its main plants.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE

THE BIG question with solar energy is whether it will become sufficiently profitable for major utilities to provide comprehensive services. After all, solar energy is more abundant than all other renewable resources; it’s free and it can be harnessed almost anywhere in the world.…