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BY RICHARD HURST
THE SOUTH African national oil and gas agency, PetroSA, its PetroWorld joint-venture partner Transworld Exploration, plus Foster Wheeler Power Systems, Starchem Technologies International and Waller Marine will jointly develop a US$700 million fuel-grade methanol plant: output 12,000-15,000 tonnes a day.…

KEITH NUTHALL
INNOVATION from European Union-funded research has continued to offer improvements to the way that EU water utilities work. For instance, the European Commission-funded MicroChem initiative has developed miniaturised laboratory-on-a-chip systems suitable for rapid field testing of water streams. They examine water in tiny pictolitre quantities, flowing through microbore channels produced by photolithographic etching.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ALTHOUGH air traveller numbers fell last year, with the civil aviation industry still reeling from September 11, the global travel retail market for perfumery and cosmetics grew by 7.2 per cent last year, the strongest performer of all duty-free shop goods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRAZIL has extended its safeguard duty regime against imports of shelled and shredded dried coconuts, imposing it on Malaysian exports. The south-east Asian country had previously been exempt, along with 87 other developing countries said a note to the World Trade Organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AGRICULTURAL economists may disagree, but predicting trends in world food markets is not necessarily rocket science. A dose of healthy common sense can be as good a guide for the future demand for commodities as any amount of slide rules and complex economic equations.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE FIRST meeting of the world’s five largest sugar exporters has agreed to co-ordinate efforts to boost prices in the commodity’s international market from current record lows. Meeting in Bangkok, representatives of Thailand, Australia, Brazil, South Africa and Guatemala agreed to speed up co-operation and seek to lift world prices without raising domestic retail prices.…

BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
PORT Elizabeth airport, South Africa, is currently undergoing a Rand 31-million (US$4.12) upgrade to its terminals, so that they can accept international flights. The process will take approximately eight months and will see a major improvement to the current state of the airport, notably on its ability to offer customs and immigration clearance.…

BY RICHARD HURST
THE DEMOCRATIC Republic of the Congo government has announced that it intends to increase the country’s falling copper production by refurbishing the Kamoto mine with assistance from Canada’s Kinross Gold Corporation.

Jean-Louis Nkulu Kitshunku, mining minister, said that the deal between the state-owned mining corporation Cecamines and Kinross would was nearing completion and would see the mine’s output increase to 50,000 tonnes of copper per annum in 2004.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
PENGUIN India has reported huge sales of the Order of the Phoenix, with 60,000 sales being distributed around the country and another 40,000 being sent out to booksellers next week. “Sales have been phenomenal, especially in the south and west regions,” marketing manager Thomas Abraham told the Hindustan Times.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Heath Organisation announced that 40 countries and the European Union signed the new global Framework Convention on Tobacco Control within a week of it being agreed. Signatories included Britain, Spain, Iran, South Africa, Bangladesh and France.…