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BY MARK ROWE
CHINESE passenger jets without the second-generation airborne collision avoidance system ACASII, have been banned from taking off or landing during daytime hours in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, according to rules issued by the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed formal regulations governing the erection of possible future safeguard restrictions within the European Union against Chinese exports of textile and clothing products. Under the agreement approving China’s accession to the World Trade Organisation, Brussels has the right to impose special temporary safeguard duties until December 2008, where a boom in imports threatens “market disruption.”…

BY MARK ROWE
MONEY launderers looking to process their criminal gains look favourably upon south-east Asia. Authorities in the region are under-funded and overworked, while cash-transactions are a cultural norm, making it easy to ensure that money you would prefer not to be traced can simply disappear, with little likelihood that anyone will have the time to investigate the transaction.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
FAST-FOOD giant Kentucky Fried Chicken will next month (August) open the country’s first drive-through KFC, in Beijing, targeting the capital’s booming daily traffic, now 1.8 million vehicles. “China-KFC can’t miss the chance in advance while the number of private car owners continues to grow in major Chinese cities,” said a spokesperson for KFC’s local partner, Yum Restaurants.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Colombo
THE INTRODUCTION of protective duties or quantitative import quotas is being considered seriously by the Sri Lankan government, as a response to complaints from local shoe producers that foreign rivals – notably from China – are dumping cheap product on the island’s market.…

KEITH NUTHALL
This is based on a feature I wrote for Geographical Magazine a couple of years ago but which I am now focusing solely on Tasmania rather than nationwide.

Tasmanian aquaculture

Matthew Brace, Sydney

Australia is sold to the world as a vast baking continent with quartzite ridges stretching to the horizon like the fossilised carcasses of fallen dinosaurs.…

BY MARK ROWE
CHINESE authorities have imposed strict new operational rules for commercial jets that are not equipped with airborne collision avoidance systems. Passenger jets without the second-generation airborne collision avoidance system, known as ACASII, will be prevented from taking off or landing between 8am and 9pm in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has lifted a ban on Chinese imports of certain fish, (including whole farmed and wild fish, gutted and de-headed fish and fish fillets of Alaska pollack, cod, redfish farmed fish and crustaceans), following tests by the EU Food and Veterinary Office.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IN September 1901 the legendary American tycoon James Buchanan “Buck” Duke entered the office of the Player brothers’ cigarette firm in Nottingham with the unforgettable words: “Hello boys, I’m Duke from New York, come to buy your business.”…

BY MARK ROWE
CHINESE scientists have successfully cloned an endangered species of high quality cattle. The clone calf, named Boeve, was born in April and is from a breed of beef cattle from the northern Hebei province. The cell nucleus containing genetic materials was taken from the ovary and ear of a six-month-old cow.…