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BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S Sleeman Breweries Ltd. has announced it is expanding its 2002 agreement with Tokyo-based Sapporo Breweries to include worldwide production of the Japanese beer in its distinctive 650 ml “Silver Can.”

Currently, Ontario-based Sleeman produces Sapporo bottled products for the United States market, where Sapporo remains the number one selling Japanese beer.…

BY MARK ROWE
JAPANESE scientists have developed a beer that they claim acts as a facial treatment to keep you looking young at heart. The beer – which should be drunk rather than applied to the skin – has been produced by the Akita Research Institute of Food and Brewing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the proposed acquisition of Minolta by Konica, two Japanese manufacturers of cameras, photocopiers and other imaging products, following a promise by Konica to sell its 40 per cent stake in Sekonic, also of Japan, a photometers manufacturer.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has authorised a deal involving the merger of two key Brazilian suppliers of iron ore into the European Union market. It has approved the proposed acquisition by CVRD (Companhia Vale do Rio Doce) of sole control of Caemi, which it currently shares with Japanese iron ore trader Mitsui.…

BY MARK ROWE
A JAPANESE city authority is positively discriminating in favour of non-smokers when it hires new employees. If a smoking applicant and a non-smoker are rated equally during interviews for city council posts in Yamato, the non-smoker will be favoured.…

BY MARK ROWE
THAILAND’S wine industry, which could charitably be described as embryonic, has been given a significant boost after the country’s government announced it would start issuing quality assurance kite marks for producers.

The move is designed to help the best of Thailand’s wine makers compete in the international market by enabling them to promote their wines using kite marks which can be recognised and understood by international consumers and wholesalers.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE ‘LOOTING of civilisation’ in Baghdad, with its vivid images of wanton destruction and looting inflicted upon the Iraqi national museum, was all too familiar for those who have followed events in Afghanistan. But everyone must hope the parallels stop there, for the experience of those quietly seeking to recover Afghanistan’s glorious archaeological past does not bode well for the long-term restoration of Iraq’s treasures.…

Keith Nuthall
A CONSORTIUM led by Italian-Thai Development plc (ITD) and two Japanese contractors has been awarded the contract to build runways at Bangkok’s new Suvarnabhumi International Airport. Construction is due to be completed by April 2005. In a statement to the stock exchange of Thailand, ITD said that the consortium, IOT Joint Venture, would be signing the contract with the New Bangkok International Airport Co (NBIA).…

Keith Nuthall
ALTHOUGH air traveller numbers fell last year, with the civil aviation industry still reeling from September 11, the global travel retail market grew by 5.3 per cent to US$20 billion in 2002. This took it back to the 2000 level, from which it had fallen the previous year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A BAND of pirates that hijacked a ship carrying aluminium ingots off Indonesia in 1999 has been convicted and jailed by an Indian court. The decision has been welcomed by the International Chamber of Commerce as a welcome and rare example of a country prosecuting piracy in international waters.…