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BY KEITH NUTHALL
AQUACULTURE is growing more rapidly than other meat, fish or dairy sectors. Its contribution to global supplies of fish and seafood increased from 3.9 per cent to 29 per cent in 2001, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A LOT of people are saying that cigar smoking may be in serious long-term decline given the way things are going in America. World Tobacco is inclined to treat the figures a little more cautiously. It is true there has almost certainly been a sharp drop in American consumption in recent years but, as Chris Boon, the premium cigar manager at British American Tobacco, points out, there are no true figures: “you draw own conclusions and arrive at an estimate.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the World Trade Organisation in the midst of key negotiations to update its agriculture agreement, Geneva diplomats are often stressing the raison d’etre of the WTO Doha Development Round, namely that commerce helps the poor.

The idea is that by ripping down bureaucratic hurdles, duties and restrictive quotas for goods that developing countries produce in abundance – such as food – the WTO will provide their entrepreneurs with an opportunity to seize export earnings.…

BY MARK ROWE
IT is only four letters long but for a little word AFTA is having a big impact on the Malaysian tobacco industry. AFTA, the impending free trade block for south-east Asia, is forcing the Malaysian tobacco industry, widely regarded as having the most sophisticated (and expensive) leaf production and manufacturing infrastructure in the region, to radically overhaul the way it goes about its business.…

BY MARK ROWE
INTERPOL has agreed to a request from Russian authorities to help locate the missing vodka magnate Yury Shefler, wanted by Russian prosecutors in connection with allegations of threatening to kill a government official.

A spokesman for the organisation’s Moscow bureau confirmed that Interpol offices across Western Europe were now liaising in the search for SPI Group owner Shefler.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONTRACT standards that can be applied to e-commerce are being drawn up by the Europe-based UN Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT). Jointly prepared by e-business consortia RosettaNet, telecoms and IT e-commerce forum EDIFICE and ESIA/EECA, (European Semi Conductor Industry Association/European Electronic Component Manufacturers Association), representing more than 500 high tech companies, this deal would lay the foundations for standardised global contracts covering Internet business exchanges, (whether machine to person or machine to machine).…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON, in Newcastle, England, MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane and RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
ASK a human to find a needle in a haystack and they would probably spend five minutes at the most sifting through the stalks, then get bored and walk away.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MEXICAN government has launched the first stage of disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation, (formal talks), over claims that the reimposition by the United States of anti-dumping duties on its exports of oil country tubular goods broke global trading regulations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST trials in African airspace of the European global navigation overlay service (EGNOS) have taken place (Feb 27-29) on board flights into the Senegalese capital of Dakar. The tests, staged by the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Commission, and ASECNA, (the aviation navigation safety agency for Africa and Madagascar), were carried out as a first phase of plans to install global navigation satellite system (GNSS) services over central Africa.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN fishing industry is currently enjoying a significant upswing in profits thanks to a surge in fish and seafood consumption and new accessible global fish sources. Three of the country’s main processors in its often hard-pressed Atlantic provinces have reported strong profits despite a decline in traditional fish catches.…