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BY TAMARA VANTROYEN, in Hong Kong

CHINA looks to be a likely candidate for the first country in the world to approve genetically modified rice, despite the fact that the State Agricultural GM Crop Biosafety Committee, a technical body which evaluates GM rice for research, did not approve the idea at its three-day meeting in Beijing, December 10-12, 2005.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE FEDERATION of Thai Industries has called for Thai planning rules to encourage industrial development around airports, notably promoting an “aerotropolis” within 30 kilometres of the country’s new major Suvarnabhumi airport, boosting jewellery, information technology and other light industries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation conference centre for the Asia-Pacific region has been opened. Its meetings will promote safety in this region’s increasingly busy airspace.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed that a Euro 3,479 per tonne anti-dumping duty on coumarin imports from China is extended to shipments from India or Thailand to prevent Chinese exporters illegally diverting this additive to avoid the tariff.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE JAPANESE government has warned that anticipated increased airspace capacity on the route between its Fukuoka air traffic control zone and that of Shanghai, in China, may not be available next year. Reduced vertical separation minimum (RVSM) services are being introduced on flight path A593 between Japan and China, but not on the SADLI section adjoining Chinese and North Korean airspace.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FORMAL decision has been taken by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to abolish all remaining textile and clothing import quotas for World Trade Organisation (WTO) member countries from January 1. It means 210 quotas affecting exporters from Argentina, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea and Thailand will go.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS a truly global criminal problem, it is only right that fighting money laundering is a key priority of the United Nations (UN). Its general assembly and key committees have made declarations and approved conventions on the subject, and its specialist agencies have also devoted time, money, specialist staff and energy to fighting the problem.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has identified eight priority countries as sources of counterfeit goods as the focus of special diplomatic efforts to pressure their governments to deal with the problem. China, Thailand, the Ukraine, Russia, Brazil, Turkey, South Korea and Indonesia will receive encouragement and advice on fighting counterfeiting.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL trade controls have been imposed on some plants and trees with medicinal properties, to guarantee their future abundance for the pharmaceutical industry. A conference of parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora Trade (CITES), in Bangkok, staged in Thailand, strengthened rules on trading medicinal plants, including hoodia, used in diet pills; the desert-living cistanche, a natural tonic; and the Chinese yew tree, which boasts cancer-fighting properties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU has appealed against a WTO ruling that its sugar exporters are getting more subsidies that they should under global trade rules. However, the ruling, now confirmed by the WTO, could help the European Commission push its reforms of the EU sugar common market organisation onto unwilling member states.…