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BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
NESTLE India has entered the Indian flavoured milk market, launching itself its Fruit ‘n Milk line in Delhi, Mumbai (Bombay) and Pune. The product has mango and strawberry flavours, priced at IND Rupees 15 (US$0.31) for a 200 ml pack and is being manufactured for Nestle by Dynamix.…

BY MARK ROWE
IT is only four letters long but for a little word AFTA is having a big impact on the Malaysian tobacco industry. AFTA, the impending free trade block for south-east Asia, is forcing the Malaysian tobacco industry, widely regarded as having the most sophisticated (and expensive) leaf production and manufacturing infrastructure in the region, to radically overhaul the way it goes about its business.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIAN chicken producers, already been hit by a poultry price fall, are now facing another problem: a rise in the price in their principal feed, maize. There is a particular problem in the south, where the Tamil Nadu’s maize crop could be 50 per cent of earlier projections because of the failure of the country’s northeast monsoon.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIA’S Venkatesh Coke and Power Ltd. has announced that it has secured a sales contract for selling coke to Germany’s RAG from its planned 110MW power station in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, which will import 1.2 million tonnes of coking coal per year, mostly low ash coal from Australia.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIA’S Alkem Laboratories is introducing a new antibiotic branded Megapime into its home market. It has been approved as a stand-alone drug which can be administered, without waiting for an exact diagnosis, to serious patients suffering from fever who have a low white cell count.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
ASIAN Paints (Lanka) Ltd., the Sri Lanka operation of the India-based multinational coating giant, is offering free insurance to professional painters who choose to use its products. They will be offered a comprehensive accident insurance scheme that could pay up to SL Rupees 250,000 (US$2,580) in compensation per painter.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIA’S Footwear Design and Development Institute has launched an INDRupee 40,000 computer software package designed to improve productivity levels for the country’s footwear industry. Called PRISM (Productivity and Resources Information System Manager), the system is supposed to cut the time spent on administrative tasks in a leather-manufacturing unit to about 30 minutes from the existing three days of manual paperwork.…

BY EDWARD PETERS
FOR a snapshot of the current state of the Chinese tobacco industry, casual observers need go no further than the massive adverts blanketing some of the main highways in Shanghai, which is generally considered to be the most go-ahead city in the People’s Republic (PRC).…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIA’S four-day 18th International Leather Fair, in Chennai (Madras), this month (Feb) concluded INDRupees 5,090 million (US$106.8 million) worth of business, said its organisers. Staged at the Chennai Trade Centre, it attracted more than 8,000 visitors, said the Indian Trade Promotion Organisation, of whom five per cent were from abroad, including representatives from 20 countries, notably from Italy, Germany, Spain, Brazil and China.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
JUST as a punch-drunk boxer cannot resist another slug in the ring, the Indian government is refusing to throw in the towel in its interminably long World Trade Organisation dispute with the European Union over Brussels’ anti-dumping duties on bed-linen from India.…