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BY KEITH NUTHALL
INDIA’S Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued new health standards for meat and meat products, namely corned beef, luncheon meat, cooked ham, chopped meat, canned chicken, canned mutton and goat meat, frozen mutton and goat meat, focusing on microbiological requirements, the use of food additives and metal contaminants.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAKA
INDIAN paper giant JK Paper Ltd. of India has launched discussions with foreign paper companies into striking an outsourcing deal for coated paper under the ‘JK Paper’ brand name. The company sees the strategy as a way of helping it double its volumes from existing 150,000 tonnes per annum to 300,000 in the next 2-3 years, along with planned mergers and acquisitions.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
LANKA Walltile Ltd of Sri Lanka has recorded a gross sales increase of 1.25 per cent in 2000-2001, despite a boom of imports of cheap tiles from India, Thailand and India in the Sri Lankan market.…

BY MARK ROWE
SHIPPING live prawns in a hibernated state to Europe is being promoted in Thailand as a means of combating increased export competition from regional neighbours. Thai exporters are being encouraged to explore the possibility of shipping live tiger prawns to Europe by keeping the cargo in hibernation.…

BY RICHARD HURST
A NEWLY formed so-called South African black empowerment company, Phila Phola Pharmaceuticals, intends to import and produce generic and patented drugs under licence is actively seeking established partners from the sector.

Originally intended to be under the umbrella of the Thebe Investment Company, the company has been spun off as a separate entity and is seeking viable factory sites in Johannesburg and Cape Town.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations General Assembly will be asked to consider the plight of seafarers so poorly paid that they work in conditions amounting to “slavery,” when it considers relating to oceans and the Law of the Sea next month.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE USA takes more scientists and engineers from Britain than from any other country in the western industrial world, according to the latest Science, Technology and Industry indicators published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

The report shows that 7,086 scientists and engineers from the UK are at present employed in the US, followed by 5,351 from Canada, 2,298 from Germany and 1,843 from Korea.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
Britain is the key source within the OECD countries for scientists and engineers working in America, according to the latest Science, Technology and Industry indicators published by the organisation. They show that 7,086 scientists and engineers from the UK are at present working in the US, followed by 5,351 from Canada, 2,298 from Germany and 1,843 from Korea.…

KEITH NUTHALL
INDIA is disputing whether the EU has complied with the WTO ruling that it broke world trading rules when protecting its cotton-type bed linen producers with anti-dumping duties. Brussels has claimed that it has fulfilled instructions from a disputes panel by suspending the duties, but New Delhi has reserved the right to launch a fresh action, especially if moves are made by next March to renew the duties.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
MEXICO-based Grupo Modelo is launching its flagship brand Corona in India this year, with its international market coordinator for the Asia-Pacific region claiming that the beer will be as successful as it has been in China. Linares Fernando told the Indian press that annual Chinese sales are approaching one million cases.…