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JAPAN SOUTH KOREA LAVER SEAWEED
BY KEITH NUTHALL
JAPAN and South Korea have struck a deal solving a long-running World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute over Japanese restrictions on imports of South Korean laver seaweed. Seoul has argued that Japan’s import quotas of this product break Tokyo’s WTO commitments under the 1994 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).…
CHINA WHITENERS FEATURE WHITE SKIN CREAMS DEODORANTS LIPBALM
BY DAVID EIMER, in Beijing
TO be beautiful in China is to be fair-skinned and for cosmetics companies, that’s an opportunity to tap the world’s largest emerging market for whitening creams. According to Chinese government figures, China’s beauty and cosmetics market was worth between 42 and 46 billion Yuan (US$5-5.5 billion) last year and a third of that total was spent on whitening products.…
TAMIFLU - EMEA ROCHE INQUIRY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA) has launched a safety review of the drug Tamiflu, seen as the front-line defence against any bird flu outbreak in humans. It has asked manufacturer Roche to check “all available data on serious psychiatric disorders, including all case reports with a fatal outcome where Tamiflu was involved”.…
BIRD FLU ROUND UP - TAMIFLU EMEA - EUROPEANPARLIAMENT CALL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA) has launched a safety review of the drug Tamiflu, seen as the front-line defence against any bird flu outbreak in humans. It has asked manufacturer Roche to check "all available data on serious psychiatric disorders, including all case reports with a fatal outcome where Tamiflu was involved".…
BIRD FLU ROUND UP - TAMIFLU EMEA - EUROPEANPARLIAMENT CALL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA) has launched a safety review of the drug Tamiflu, seen as the front-line defence against any bird flu outbreak in humans. It has asked manufacturer Roche to check “all available data on serious psychiatric disorders, including all case reports with a fatal outcome where Tamiflu was involved”.…
WTO HONG KONG SUMMIT THINK PIECE - DOHA DEVELOPMENT ROUND - AGRICULTURE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS trade ministers flew home from four days of gruelling talks at last week’s World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Hong Kong, they could be forgiven for feeling some satisfaction: the end of the Doha Development Round is nigh, probably.…
BIRD FLU ROUND UP - TAMIFLU EMEA - EUROPEANPARLIAMENT CALL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA) has launched a safety review of the drug Tamiflu, seen as the front-line defence against any bird flu outbreak in humans. It has asked manufacturer Roche to check “all available data on serious psychiatric disorders, including all case reports with a fatal outcome where Tamiflu was involved”.…
JAPAN PAINT INDUSTRY FEATURE
BY MARK ROWE
OVERSHADOWING the Japanese paint industry in recent years has been the overall shape of the country’s economy. The stagnation of the economy lasted for much of the 1990s but it showed signs of recovery in the first half of fiscal 2004-2005, driven by solid exports and strong corporate capital investment.…
OECD PUBLIC HEALTH ADVICE GOVERNMENT SPENDING REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has claimed rich country governments spend far too little on educating citizens on reducing environmental health problems. It has claimed that OECD countries spend, on average, only 3% of their healthcare budgets on prevention and public awareness programmes.…
NORDSEE SEAFOOD DEAL - EUROPEAN COMMISSION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the acquisition of joint control of seafood firm Nordsee, of Germany, by UK subsidiary of Japanese investment bank Nomura, a private investor Mr Heiner Kamps, and TML-Invest, of Switzerland, (owned by German food company the Müller Group).…