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KEITH NUTHALL
This is based on a feature I wrote for Geographical Magazine a couple of years ago but which I am now focusing solely on Tasmania rather than nationwide.

Tasmanian aquaculture

Matthew Brace, Sydney

Australia is sold to the world as a vast baking continent with quartzite ridges stretching to the horizon like the fossilised carcasses of fallen dinosaurs.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Colombo
THE INTRODUCTION of protective duties or quantitative import quotas is being considered seriously by the Sri Lankan government, as a response to complaints from local shoe producers that foreign rivals – notably from China – are dumping cheap product on the island’s market.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
FAST-FOOD giant Kentucky Fried Chicken will next month (August) open the country’s first drive-through KFC, in Beijing, targeting the capital’s booming daily traffic, now 1.8 million vehicles. “China-KFC can’t miss the chance in advance while the number of private car owners continues to grow in major Chinese cities,” said a spokesperson for KFC’s local partner, Yum Restaurants.…

BY MARK ROWE
CHINESE authorities have imposed strict new operational rules for commercial jets that are not equipped with airborne collision avoidance systems. Passenger jets without the second-generation airborne collision avoidance system, known as ACASII, will be prevented from taking off or landing between 8am and 9pm in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
1902-1912

British American Tobacco was created on September 29th 1902 as a joint venture between Imperial Tobacco Company of the UK and the American Tobacco Company of the US following a fierce trade war. The parent companies agreed not to trade in each other’s domestic territory and to assign trademarks, export businesses and overseas subsidiaries to the joint venture.…

Keith Nuthall
THE JAPANESE government has promised to annually increase import quotas for silk from China until 2005, when, under the terms of the World Trade Organisation’s Agreement on Textiles and clothing, they will be scrapped altogether. Until then, Japan has promised to widen quotas following consultations with the Chinese government.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
MACAO International Airport cargo volumes increased 40

percent year-on-year to 22,171 tons in the first quarter of 2002, while passenger numbers rose more than 15 percent to 953,097. Macao has been benefiting from its key position as a hub for traffic between mainland China and Taiwan, the Shipping & Trade News has reported.…

Keith Nuthall
A EUROPOL-led crackdown on illegal immigration through international airports in Europe has netted 410 migrants trying to illegally enter the EU. Those arrested in the one-day swoop were mainly from China, South America and Africa. More than a quarter were detected at Paris airports; other important entry points were airports in Madrid and Dublin.…

BY MARK ROWE
CHINESE scientists have successfully cloned an endangered species of high quality cattle. The clone calf, named Boeve, was born in April and is from a breed of beef cattle from the northern Hebei province. The cell nucleus containing genetic materials was taken from the ovary and ear of a six-month-old cow.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EVERY minute of every day a million smokers light up a cigarette made by BAT and the company’s goal is that every one of them is perfect. How does BAT manage this, and at the same time meet its production, technical and environmental challenges when operations are on such a colossal scale ?…