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BY JAMES BURNS

REYNOLDS American Inc has announced the appointment of Luc Jobin and Holly K. Koeppel to its board of directors. Both will serve on the board’s audit and finance committee.

The parent company of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Conwood Company, LLC, Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, and R.J.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

JULY’S mid-winter political season in Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) has been marked by the approval of tougher smoking laws by the state’s parliament in Sydney. They impose new smoking restrictions and penalties, part of the NSW government’s attempt to reduce children’s exposure to cigarettes, both lit and unlit.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A LEAKED World Bank report has claimed that the biofuels boom is responsible for 75% of the increase in global food prices since 2006, much larger than previously assumed. The European Commission has, for instance, always maintained biofuels are having a slight impact on food prices, pushing them up by as little as 3%.…

BY KARRYN CARTELLE

SEPARATED by a short plane ride across the Tasman Sea, Australia and New Zealand are clearly two distinct countries – in the physical sense – but when it comes to the cosmetics industry in these neighbouring lands it is clear that things are merging into one.…

BY MARK GODFREY

FOREIGN brands are battling to secure milk supply to tap a market that the food business dared not dream would actually emerge – a sustained increase in sales of dairy products in China. Wang Yue Jing, general manager of the Beijing Cang Da Cow Breeding Agriculture & Commercial Co, said he was offered Chinese Yuan – RMB 300,000-a-year (US$43,960) in trucking subsidies by France’s Danone to supply his daily output of 16 tonnes of milk.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THE AUTOPARTS and automotive industries are calling for far tighter world-wide enforcement against counterfeiting, as influential countries meet in Geneva to thrash out more details of a global Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).

First mooted by the Office of the US Trade Representative in October 2007- and pursued aggressively by the US Chamber of Commerce – Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates have since come on board to try to develop ACTA.…

By Keith Nuthall

Plans to sweep away some restrictions preventing private universities and higher education service providers from teaching, researching and examining in foreign countries have been put on ice at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

This follows the collapse of negotiations at the July ministerial meeting of the WTO IN Geneva, Switzerland, which had lasted 10 days.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A POWERFUL international bloc is debating forging an international anti-counterfeiting of goods agreement insisting upon cooperation over fighting fake drinks products. Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States have been discussing the idea in Geneva.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AUSTRALIAN fish health authorities are working hard to contain an outbreak of infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis virus in Queensland, Australia, amongst giant black tiger prawns. The disease has been detected on two semi-closed salt water fish farms, one in the town of Proserpine and the other in Cardwell, both in tropical northern Queensland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A GROUP of influential countries are debating forging an international anti-counterfeiting of goods agreement, fighting fake food and drink products. Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States have been discussing the idea.…