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BY MARK ROWE
THAI-JAPANESE joint venturers have floated a plan to turn a hillside in northern Thailand into one of the world’s most unlikely ski venues. Leisure Patine International Co Ltd, which has previously developed ice rinks in Thai shopping centres, has suggested that Japanese snow-making machines could be used to establish a ski slope near the town of Chiang Mai, a place better known as a haven for European and Australian backpackers.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE JAPAN Association of Corporate Executives has called on the Japanese government to being forward the planned expansion of Tokyo International Airport at Haneda, asking it to agree a plan to enlarge its capacity by March 2002.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FROM the beginning of next year exporters of medicinal products will find it easier to sell in Japan following completion of a Mutual Recognition Agreement between that country and the EU.

The deal includes a Good Manufacturing Practice agreement under which both sides will agree to honour each other’s testing, certification and approval of products.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
A THIN and lightweight artificial leather has been developed by Japanese company Toray Industries. Called ECSAINE Prima, it is produced via a non-woven fabric processing technology, and combines a highly resistant polyurethane fabric with an ultra-thin surface fibre.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
A JAPANESE company has developed an integrated manufacturing system for recovering odd-end fabrics created by shearing during the production of automobile air bags, turning these wastes into a high-performance nylon plastic. Toyobo Co., says that the reprocessed waste can be used in the manufacture of automobile engines and air bag cavity coverings, as well as in bicycle wheels and shopping carts.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
FROM the beginning of next year exporters of medicinal products will find it easier to sell in Japan following completion of a Mutual Recognition Agreement between that country and the EU.

The deal includes a Good Manufacturing Practice agreement under which both sides will agree to honour each other’s testing, certification and approval of products.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE AND KEITH NUTHALL
THE SCENE is familiar; armed robbers hold up a bank and a teller moves to dive beneath a desk to hit the panic button, but is told to freeze or be shot. Companies with exposed personnel such as these might consider buying a new wristband alarm developed by Japanese company Takenaka Engineering Co.,…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE AND KEITH NUTHALL
THE SCENE is familiar; armed robbers hold up a bank and a teller moves to dive beneath a desk to hit the panic button, but is told to freeze or be shot. Companies with exposed personnel such as these might consider buying a new wristband alarm developed by Japanese company Takenaka Engineering Co.,…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOOMY report from the World Trade Organisation has concluded that the growth in global commerce has fallen steeply and is now expected to reach just two per cent, compared with much healthier estimates at the start of the year and a 12 per cent boom in the year 2000.…

KEITH NUTHALL
FROM the beginning of next year exporters of medicinal products will find it easier to sell in Japan following completion of a Mutual Recognition Agreement between that country and the EU.

The deal includes a Good Manufacturing Practice agreement under which both sides will agree to honour each other’s testing, certification and approval of products.…