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BY KEITH NUTHALL

WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiators return to Geneva this month (Geneva) with the aim of ending the long-running WTO Doha Development Round food liberalisation food talks by December. Diplomats and expert officials will discuss line-by-line proposals released in late July by food and drink talks chairman Crawford Falconer.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

FEW issues have proved as globally divisive as the ability to modify crops genetically. For years, a line has been drawn between the cautious European Union (EU) and the go-for-it United States, which has seen them at loggerheads over trading genetically modified crops.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE USA’S National Science Foundation has tried to put a positive gloss on the latest global comparative scientific publishing figures, saying that although the American industry is less prolific than that in Europe, it is still more important.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo

WITH a quick scrubbing motion, Tatsuya Ishihara commits an act that is tantamount to a crime in the vehicle industry. The to-and-fro of the wire brush has etched scars in the black paint on the bonnet of the brand new Nissan X-Trail SUV that would normally require a return to the workshop.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo

WITH a quick scrubbing motion, Tatsuya Ishihara commits an act that is tantamount to a crime in the vehicle industry. The to-and-fro of the wire brush has etched scars in the black paint on the bonnet of the brand new Nissan X-Trail SUV that would normally require a return to the workshop.…

BY GAVIN BLAIR, in Tokyo

ON May 28 this year Japanese beauty queen Riyo Mori was crowned Miss Universe 2007 in Mexico City. The 20-year-old former ballet dancer who had studied in Canada and New York was the first Japanese woman to win the contest in nearly half a century.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

DIFFERENT parts of the world have devised a wide range of regulations to promote biofuels as an answer to traditional fuels posed by supply and environmental concerns. Japan began promoting alternative fuels in the mid-70s following the oil crisis, replacing oil-powered electric generators with units driven by alternative fuels, as well as natural gas, coal and nuclear power.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) REACH legislation for the registration and authorisation of chemicals came into effect on June 1 and will have a major effect on the tobacco industry. The industry’s detractors have long been keen to use REACH to control the chemicals added to cigarettes in particular, and the European Parliament had pressed for the law to single out tobacco as a sector requiring scrutiny under the law.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

DIFFERENT parts of the world have devised a wide range of regulations to promote biofuels as an answer to traditional fuels posed by supply and environmental concerns. Japan began promoting alternative fuels in the mid-70s following the oil crisis, replacing oil-powered electric generators with units driven by alternative fuels, as well as natural gas, coal and nuclear power.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DETAILED proposals aimed at ending the long-running World Trade Organisation (WTO) Doha Development Round food liberalisation food talks were released this afternoon (Tue 17-7). Negotiation chairman Crawford Falconer released formulas for cutting tariffs and trade-distorting production subsidies, whose range are much narrower than in last year’s ill-fated proposals which sparked the talks’ suspension.…