Search Results for: Malaysia

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 MATTHEW BRACE
WITH Australia sharing the front-line in President Bush’s war against terrorism with Britain and the USA, and also having witnessed its citizens dying in last year’s Bali nightclub terror attack, it is maybe not surprising that it has been tightening its money laundering legislation, especially as regards terrorists.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE, in London, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane, and RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg

Introduction

Europe

Cuts to EU catch quotas

New sources of fish

Affect on fish producers

Wild alternatives to cod

Farmed cod

North America

USA – Healthier local stocks

USA – Demand up

USA – Fish imports

Canada – Farmed fish exports

Canada – GM issues

Australasia

Australia – New wild sources

Australia – Aquaculture

Australia – Wild fish innovation

Australia and New Zealand – sustainability

South Africa – Export increase and conservation

Japan – Local and regional supply

Japan – Maintaining quality

Japan – Non-Asian sources

Introduction

ONCE it was said, cod was so abundant that fishermen in some parts of the world boasted they could walk on the backs of the fish to find their catch.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MALAYSIA has been awarded control of part of the Celebes Sea by the International Court of Justice, enabling it to control local oil and gas prospecting. The area surrounds the islands of Pulau Ligitan and Pulau Sipadan, off Borneo, which had also been claimed by Indonesia.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane, EDWARD PETERS, in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg, MARK ROWE, in London, SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Columbo and MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal.
FRAUD is fraud, jurists might say. And although jurisprudence generally has a universal flavour and there are frauds that are committed the world over, it would be a travesty of the truth to say that crimes involving deception uniform by nature.…

BY MARK ROWE
A MOSLEM consumer group wants Malaysia to ban chicken imports from China, Thailand and the Philippines because of health and religious concerns. The Malaysian Muslim Consumer Association claims that raw chicken from China contained traces of a toxic antibiotic banned by Malaysia’s health ministry and that Chinese slaughtering methods were questionable from a religious point of view.…

BY MARK ROWE
MALAYSIA is to set up a halal food conglomerate with companies from China and the Middle East as part of its campaign to promote the country as a hub for Muslim food, notably meat products. The Malaysian government believes much of the lucrative market for halal food remains relatively untapped; in China alone there are some 50 million Muslims.…

BY MARK ROWE
Malaysia is to ban all forms of tobacco advertising and sponsorship next year, with temporary exemptions for the lucrative Formula One grand prix and soccer events. Health Minister Chua Jui Meng said British American Tobacco, Japan Tobacco Industry and Philip Morris have expressed willingness to drop all forms of promotion by the end of the year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MALAYSIA is to promote itself as a hub for Muslim food by establishing a halal food conglomerate with companies from China and the Middle East. It is eyeing the lucrative market of 50 million Muslims in China.…

BY MARK ROWE
BROILER chickens in Malaysia are to be raised in air-conditioned sheds as part of a government drive to raise productivity and export potential. The Malaysian government wants to help phase out traditional open-air coops and replace them with closed-door air con units that are cooler, help the chickens grow more quickly and keep out disease.…