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BY KEITH NUTHALL

DETAILS of a comprehensive plan to mitigate environmental and social problems caused by a planned Vietnam fluorspar (and tungsten) open cast mine have been released by the World Bank’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), which is expected to support the project.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DETAILS of a comprehensive plan to mitigate environmental and social problems caused by a planned Vietnam tungsten and fluorspar open cast mine have been released by the World Bank’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), which is expected to support the project.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal

CANADIAN distributors of US imported books have slashed prices by as much as 20% because an outdated currency conversion from American to Canadian dollars has now been adjusted.

For example, ‘The Glass Castle’ by Jeanette Walls had been priced at CDN$19 – which was 36% higher than the American price of US$14, reflecting the average exchange rate before 2005.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

SCIENTISTS have gathered in Quebec City, Canada, to discuss ways of fighting plant diseases that threaten to destroy cocoa production. At the Cacao Diseases: Important Threats to Chocolate Production Worldwide symposium members of the American Phytopathological Society, Canadian Phytopathological Society, and the Mycological Society of America listened to experts warn of the grave threat to cocoa plants posed by three deadly diseases: black pod, frosty pod, and witches’ broom.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN EXPERT report from the world’s top anti-money laundering body has shown how organised criminals are exploiting the global metal trade to conceal the origin of their ill-gotten gains. The annual ‘typologies’ report from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) looks at how world-trading systems are abused by money launderers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Euro 80 million to help Australian-Canadian company Equinox Minerals Ltd develop a new copper mine in Zambia, that is outside the country’s established copper belt. Equinox wants to invest Euro 709 million in a dual site mine, a processing plant and associated infrastructure.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

THE CHAIRMAN, CEO and founder of Canadian brewer Sleeman has said he will fight to keep his family name in the beer business, after a review of commercial options was ambushed and turned into a takeover battle.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

INDIGO Books & Music, Canada’s largest book chain, has announced it will launch a new website in November of this year. At the company’s annual general meeting held in Toronto, the bookseller’s president, Heather Reisman said the site will focus on a "user friendly" approach to customer service, offering book reviews, staff recommendations and book suggestions for consumers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

THE CHAIRMAN, CEO and founder of Canadian brewer Sleeman has said he will fight to keep his family name in the beer business, after a review of commercial options was ambushed and turned into a takeover battle.…

STORIES BY MONICA DOBIE

CANADA’S third largest brewer Sleeman Breweries Ltd has announced at what could be the company’s last annual general meeting that it will now begin seriously considering proposals to sell the company. CEO, John Sleeman, said "several" offers from domestic and international beer manufacturers had come to his attention and that they will be examined in the next three months.…