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BY KEITH NUTHALL

WITHOUT uranium mining we would not have nuclear energy, and with the industry experiencing a renaissance because of global warming, demand and prices for uranium is only likely to increase in the medium term. But of course uranium is not the most stable of substances, and digging it out of the ground is never going to be overwhelming popular amongst communities near mine sites.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE GLOBAL market for uranium is booming as climate change gives the nuclear power sector a new lease of life, but given this element’s intrinsic environmental health difficulties, regulatory obstacles for mining companies can be tough.

Maybe nowhere is this more apparent than in the world’s largest uranium producer, Canada: uranium miners’ safety measures have to be doubly secure, lest public opinion prevents work starting in the first place.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

IN India confectionery is considered a product that provides "an inexpensive taste experience" according to a report released earlier this year Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). This populist branding of a sector was used to argue in favour of tax-cuts for an industry that is currently facing many hardships.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

INTRODUCTION

About 10 years ago the American distiller JB Wagoner decided to market a fiery liquor made from the cactus-like agave plants growing in the hills on his estate at Temecula in California. He called it "temequila." It soon became known as "the American tequila," proving indistinguishable in taste, texture and effect from the well-known Mexican drink.…

By Gavin Blair

Though the number of academic specialists in commercial crime in the Asia-Pacific region may be fewer than in the US or Europe, many of the leading figures are both willing to work with corporate clients and have a great deal of experience outside the ivory towers.…

BY KENCHO WANGDI

LIKE other nurses in the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, religion played a part in convincing Dechen Om that she should become a nurse.

A Buddhist, like most of her co-patriots, she believed that by becoming a nurse she would get the chance to serve ill people and earn good karma so in the next life she would be born into a good family.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

AS neighbours New Zealand and Australia face similar economic woes during 2008’s global financial instability, the outlook looks grim for certain sectors of the New Zealand paint and coatings industry. "The industry is going through a difficult period currently after a number of years of sustained growth," commented Brian Miller, chief executive officer of Master Painters New Zealand.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AUSTRALIAN health officials have successfully attacked an outbreak of abalone viral ganglioneuritis which was discovered in a commercial processing plant in Mornington, near Hobart, Tasmania. The discovery prompted the closure of a 229 square kilometre fishing area, with the seabed in the D’Entrecasteaux Channel between Port Esperance and Southport being closed to commercial and recreational abalone harvesting.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

OFFICIALS at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have told just-food.com an attempt to quickly restart and resolve the Doha Development Round’s food talks seems to have failed. Senior government civil servants from the Group of Seven (the USA, the European Union, China, India, Japan, Australia and Brazil), who broadly represent all WTO member countries, had flown to Geneva last week.…

BY MARK GODFREY

A BILLION people watched recently when China’s top two dairy companies Yili and Mengniu took the prime slot Chinese television advertisements immediately after the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics Games. Being onscreen for the most important TV event in modern Chinese history is a sign of how fast dairy has grown in a land accustomed to soy milk.…