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BY RICHARD HURST
SOUTH African Synthetic fuels company, SASOL is reported to be actively seeking further foreign acquisitions in the EU and north America, following its purchase of Germany’s Condea. A spokesman for SASOL said, “It remains the company’s corporate growth strategy to look for at synergistic alliances and joint-ventures on a global basis.”…

Keith Nuthall
What now for the “Havana Club” rum brand name after this month’s

ruling by a panel of the World Trade Organisation in the dispute between

the European Union and the US ? Both sides have claimed a victory of

sorts out of the split ruling, though both agree the struggle is far from

over.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN book sector has seen its share of turbulence in the past 12 months. Last summer Larry Stevenson, a young, successful businessman at the helm of Chapters, the country’s largest book retailer, was pondering ways in which to expand the company further.…

BY KATE REW
ENVIRONMENTAL group Friends of the Earth has criticised legislation being considered last week before the US House of Representatives, claiming that they would authorise more than US$33 billion over ten years in new and expanded subsidies for the oil, coal, gas and nuclear power industries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared a planned Spanish publishing joint venture between Germany’s Bertelsmann and Arnoldo Mondadori Editore SpA, of Italy, combining all the book publishing divisions and imprints in Spain and Latin America of Random House and Mondadori.…

BY KATE REW
CHEMICAL window cleaning agents could soon be redundant thanks to a new product soon to be introduced by Pilkington North America. Its Pilkington Aktiv glass is the first in the world to have self-cleaning properties.

The glass uses a so-called ‘photocatalytic effect,’ where the sun’s rays gradually and continuously break down organic dirt which then dissolves.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
WILL there come a day when a genuine European market in health care takes its place among the other landmark achievements of the European Union?

In terms of economic efficiency and the functioning of the internal market, does it make much sense for a million patients in Britain, say, to have to wait sometimes for a year or more for important operations while people in France or Luxembourg can book them for the next day and some German hospitals have barely half their beds filled?…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN oil and gas industry has seen its largest corporate take-over when Houston-based Conoco Inc. agreed to buyout Gulf Canada Resources for CAN$6.7 billion in cash.

The deal will serve up a large piece of the natural gas pie for Texan giant Conoco in Canada, especially in the relatively untapped Mackenzie Delta gas deposits in the Northwest Territories.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
COMPANIES sending personal data to countries outside the European

Union will be able to ensure their legal compliance with the EU’s data protection directive by incorporating a set of new standard clauses in their contracts under proposals announced by the European Commission.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AFTER Mexican plantation workers walked off tobacco fields in Ontario, Canada, to protest about the deplorable working conditions, the Canadian section of the United Farm Workers of America has called for the establishment national labour standards to protect them.…