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BY MONICA DOBIE
A LINK between under-nourishment and mental illness has been confirmed after scientists found that children born during China’s 1959-61 famine were twice as likely to develop schizophrenia. It afflicts roughly 1% of the global population and tends to run in families but researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University noted that the percentage of children who were babies during the famine and developed schizophrenia rose to 2.2%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has warned of an outbreak of ‘Streptococcus suis’ disease amongst pigs in China, that has jumped species and caused 206 cases amongst humans, killing 38 and rendering 18 critically ill. The bacterial condition is rare in Europe and is contracted usually via cuts and grazes on people handling contaminated pigmeat.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA will reduce three million tons greenhouse gas emissions through a groundbreaking Xiaogushan Hydropower Plant (XHP) reducing demand for coal-fired power generation using a 98 MW run-of-river hydroelectric plant in Gansu Province that requires no dam.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA’S competitors in the race to exploit this year’s abolition of clothing and textile import quotas have been holding their own in sales to the European Union (EU), new trade figures show. Released by the European Commission, the statistics illustrate how China has – as expected – grown EU exports sharply: from January to May, it sold Euro 7.3 billion’s worth of clothing and textile products, up from Euro 5.4 billion the previous year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL tea production hit a new record high in 2004, growing 2% to reach an estimated 3.2 million tonnes, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has reported. The expansion was mainly due to increases in Turkey, China, Kenya, Malawi, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, offsetting declines in other major producing countries, notably India and Bangladesh.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed stiff 47.8% definitive anti-dumping duties be imposed on many Chinese exports into the European Union (EU) of grey or ductile iron ‘castings’ generally used as manholes or other underground chamber covers. The initiative follows complaints from EU producers’ organisation EUROFONTE about the dumping of cheap Chinese castings, not reflecting the steep increase in steel scrap prices.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
CARMAKERS have experienced tremendous growth in the Asia Pacific region recently, as China and India in particular generate new sales and manufacturing opportunities. General Motors recently announced that its 2005 first quarter production figures for the region were up by around 14% compared with 2004, with Ford and other leading manufacturers predicting similar growth.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
ALTHOUGH the US economy is still somewhat sluggish, there are little signs so far that this is having a serious effect on the overall performance of the American paint and coatings industry. Where changes are likely to be seen over the coming years is within individual markets for these products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL assessment of commodity markets until 2014 is predicting that increased production worldwide will depress the price of traded meat. Written by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), this ‘Agricultural Outlook’ predicts slow but steady falls in beef prices, because of the gradual improvement in US production, and poultry, following “continued investment in integrated poultry systems, particularly in developing countries”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DEADLINES for the introduction of quota limits on 10 Chinese clothing lines exported to the European Union (EU) have been released by the European Commission: goods shipped before June 11 will be free of limits and licences; from then import licences will be required; the quotas should come into force this week; and imported controlled lines will require Chinese export licences from July 20.…