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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank is lending China US$104 million to treat tuberculosis sufferers, strengthening its National TB Control Programme. The money will be complemented by a UK Pounds 28.3 million grant from the UK’s Department for International Development, which will help Beijing manage this expansion, notably by allowing the bank loan to be on-lent to China’s provinces at a concessional rate.…

BY MARK ROWE
TOYOTA Motor Corp plans to buy Chinese parts to make cars in its operations in China as a way to cut costs, instead of shipping them in from Japan. Toyota would procure discount door parts and materials including steel sheet from China’s leading steel-maker, Shanghai Baoshan Iron & Steel.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ONTARIO’S tobacco auctions have been wrapped up for the 2001 crop, which has proved to be a successful year for growers in the key Canadian province, being blessed with a very dry summer.

A tally of 117,094,080 pounds of tobacco was sold at an average price of CAN$1.79 per pound, up two cents from last year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is common knowledge that deepening concern about terrorism following the September 11 attacks has led to tighter security in the civil aviation industry, but there have also been important implications for the shipping sector. Keith Nuthall reports.…

BY MARK ROWE
OIJ Paper Co, Japan’s largest paper producer and the world’s second largest producer, is to launch a US$1billion expansion in production capacity in south-east Asia and China over the next five years. The company aims to raise production from its current rate of 60,000 tonnes a year of pulp and paper to a total of one million tonnes during that period.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE CHINESE Petroleum Corporation (CPC), one of Taiwan’s largest state-owned enterprises, is setting up a joint company with the China mainland counterpart company China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) to extract and refine oil. CNPC does not have the means to refine crude oil and currently contracts out this work to Japan but is keen to use Taiwan, because it can offer lower coats and is closer to markets in southern China.…

Keith Nuthall
BEIJING, Shanghai and Guangzhou are to be turned into aviation hubs for the country’s three biggest carriers, as airport traffic is reorganised to suit the country’s airline mergers. The Civil Aviation Administration of China will this summer stop airlines that are not based in any of these three cities from flying routes between them.…

BY MARK ROWE
A CHINESE garment factory has threatened male employees with dismissal if they take a mistress; the practice has become rampant in recent years on the Chinese mainland, usually involving Hong Kong men, and one employer has had enough.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA has admitted that it has encountered “unexpected difficulties” in setting up low duty import tariffs for wool and cotton. The EU, Argentina, Malaysia and Brazil have said at the WTO’s agriculture committee that while they “understood China’s problems,” they “were also disappointed,” that the January 1 deadline for establishing the quotas was missed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has “expressed concern” and “disappointment” over China’s failure to met a January 1 deadline to establish low duty tariff quotas for imports of sugar, palm oil and some other commodities under the terms of its accession to the World Trade Organisation.…