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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation, of the World Bank, is making a US$15.3 million equity investment in China Life Reinsurance Company, to improve its efficiency in serving domestic Chinese customers. China Life Reinsurance Company is a spin-off from the state-owed China Re.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
250 words, DM Pounds 48, plus expenses: Train/tube travel from Honor Oak Park to Piccadilly return on 4 November: ?6.20, Phone card ?5 (Tickets should come in post – if not – can you ask Deirdre if she’s sending them in – of not, just send in the claim anyway.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BINDING energy conservation targets have been proposed for European Union (EU) Member States by the European Commission, a move that could further tighten fuel economy rules for Europe’s transport sector. Brussels has proposed a general energy saving target of one per cent a year from 2006-12, measured against average energy distribution from the previous five years.…

BY RICHARD HURST
BHP Billiton, one of the world’s largest aluminium producers, has claimed that the boom in Chinese aluminium smelting is putting pressure on global alumina stocks and that any unforeseen disruptions to the world supply of the mineral would have an immediate affect on production of the metal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy has said the European Commission will investigate the risk posed to EU textile producers by the imposition of quotas on Chinese exports into the USA market of knitted fabrics, bras, dressing gowns, and robes.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE and KEITH NUTHALL
A SHORTLIST of seven designs for a planned 16.7 billion yuan (US$2 billion) third and international terminal at Beijing’s Capital Airport has been unveiled. Beijing Capital Airport Authority announced that the competing designers include the UK dominated NACO Foster ARUP consortium; the British Airports United Consultants Consortium; France’s Aeroports de Paris/Ingénierie consortium; China’s Beijing Municipal Architecture Design and Research Institute plus the USA’s Landrum & Brown & Yang Molen; Murphy/Jahn Inc; and Parsons & Fentress.…

Keith Nuthall
INDIAN shoe exporters are struggling to fight off competition from China, with statistics from the Council for Leather Exports (CLE) saying that in 2002-03 (April-February) India’s leather exports earned US$1.67 billion, a 6.56 per cent decline compared with the corresponding period of 2001-2.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UNITED Nations (UN) Convention against Transnational Organised Crime has come into force, imposing a duty on ratifying countries to outlaw membership of an organised criminal group, which it defines legally. So far, said the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), 48 countries have ratified it, including Monaco, Nigeria, Serbia & Montenegro, Peru, Spain, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, Philippines, Tajikistan, Albania, France, Argentina, Mexico, Turkey, China, Norway and Afghanistan.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s (EC) proposals for the EU tobacco regime, published in detail last month (September), essentially recognise that subsidised tobacco growing in Europe on any significant scale is now coming to an end. If these plans are put in place it seems likely that in little more than three years’ time the only tobacco grown in the EU will be to serve small niche markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SHIPBREAKING, a ready source of scrap steel, is one of the most dangerous occupations in the world. What is more, agreed a recent meeting of experts from the International Metalworkers Federation, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and others, it need not be so deadly.…