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BY KARRYN CARTELLE

THE SIGNING of a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the United States is expected to fuel an already booming seafood trade. And with the Koreans having a host of other FTAs in the works, it appears this seafood-producing nation will use free trade agreements to push its seafood products to every continent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE PUBLISHERS Association has welcomed the formal request by the United States government for a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel charged with ruling on whether Chinese restrictions on the import of books and other copyrighted products breaks global commerce rules.…

BY ANDREW SALMON, in Seoul

THE WORDS ‘nuclear’ and ‘Korea’ automatically conjure up images of Kim Jong-il’s underground atomic weapons programs, but south of the heavily militarised border, it is South Korea that has quietly built up one of the world’s most competitive nuclear industries.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

LEGEND has it that Mogul Emperor and the maker of Taj Mahal, Shah Jahan, was so fond of rose attar – traditional Indian perfume, that he reserved its use for his royalty. The complexity of making 10 grams of this distilled scent from 40 kg of pink rose petals made it so exclusive that all his royal letters were laced with it to give them a mark (smell) of authenticity.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A TEAM of European and Asian researchers has linked more than 40,000 computers across 45 countries to speed studies into developing an anti-viral drug that can defeat bird flu. Funded by the European Union’s (EU) Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project, the computing grid is analysing more than 500,000 drug-like molecules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WITH the Asia Pacific paint industry being increasingly innovative in its development of paints and seeking specialist overseas markets for its products, the relevance of international standards for its manufacturing processes is becoming increasingly apparent.

Indeed, the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) (NOTE: ISO USES AMERICAN SPELLING FOR ITS NAME) last year picked the paint and coatings sector to launch its new collection of CD compilations of its standards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank is investing US$15 million into extracting of methane from China’s coal beds. The money will help the Far East Energy Corporation fund the exploration and development of 5,000 square kilometers of deposits in Shanxi and Yunnan provinces, central and southeastern China.…

INTERVIEW – TONY NOWELL, ZESPRI.

BY KARRYN CARTELLE

THE WORLD leader in kiwifruit – New Zealand’s Zespri International – appeared on the scene in 1997, a whole 45 years after the first kiwifruit were exported from its home country’s shores. But despite such a late start the company has experienced rapid growth, securing the dominant position in the kiwifruit marketplace.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has authorised a significant increase in the protection of EU polyester filament fabric producers from cheap dumped Chinese exports. It has raised the main anti-dumping duty for Chinese woven fabrics of synthetic filament yarn containing 85% or more by weight of textured and/or non-textured polyester filament from 56.2% to 74.8%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ALLEGED loopholes in China’s fight against the counterfeiting of goods will be examined by a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes settlement panel, established at the urging of the United States. The committee could tell China to tighten up anti-counterfeiting policing as a breach of world trade law, namely the WTO’s Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Agreement.…