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BY KEITH NUTHALL and MARK ROWE
THE STANDING Committee for the Food Chain and Animal Health of the European Union (EU) has extended until August 15 the suspension of EU imports of fresh chicken meat and chicken products from Thailand because of the bird flu outbreak.…

BY MARK ROWE
INDONESIA’S parliament has passed a cyber-crime act on information technology to combat credit card fraud, which costs the country US$6 million every year. Indonesia does not have a coherent law that deals with credit card fraud cases over the Internet and credit card companies and legal authorities have been pressing for a legal framework.…

BY MARK ROWE
BUMI Resources, Indonesia’s largest coal producer, has set a target of increasing coal output by 40 per cent this year. In a move that the company says is aimed to capitalise on an increase in global coal prices that may rise by as much as 20 per cent, Bumi says it plans to produce around 43 million tons, up from 30.6 million last year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
1) PT Caltex Pacific Indonesia (CPI) is considering obtaining new oil and gas blocks, both onshore and offshore, despite the current decline in output due to maturing oil fields. CPI President Humayun Bosha said that “Caltex will invest between US$300 million to $400 million next year.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed the permanent abolition of anti-dumping duties on imports into the European Union (EU) of sacks and bags made of polyethylene or polypropylene from China, India, Indonesia and Thailand. Its move follows a U-turn by the European Association for Textile Polyolefins (EATP), which had in 2002 requested a review into the impending expiry of the duties on behalf of its members (who comprise 32.03 per cent of total EU production).…

BY MARK ROWE
INDONESIAN parliamentarians have called for ban on sugar imports until February to stabilise the tumbling domestic price of the commodity. Sugarcane farmers have complained about low-cost sugar imports from Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia.…

BY MARK ROWE
INDONESIAN parliamentarians have called for ban on sugar imports until February to stabilise the tumbling domestic price of the commodity. Sugarcane farmers have complained about low-cost sugar imports from Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ALL but one of the commonly used forms of asbestos have been added to a United Nations blacklist, enabling countries to block further imports without being challenged in global tribunals such as the World Trade Organisation. Amosite, actinolite, anthophyllite and tremolite were added to the Rotterdam Convention Prior Informed Consent (PIC) list by an intergovernmental negotiating committee, meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.…

BY MARK ROWE
INDONESIA’S second largest cigarette producer PT HM Sampoerna recorded a three per cent rise in revenue in the first nine months of this year, from Rupiah 10.8 trillion (US$1.3 billion) from Rp 10.5 trillion a year earlier, though sales volumes declined.…

Keith Nuthall
THE NUMBER of women seafarers working in the world’s merchant navies is on the rise, but female ship workers still face discrimination and a lack of tailored facilities, an International Labour Organisation report has said. It claims women make up between one and two per cent of the world’s 1.25 million seafarers, on around 87,000 ships.…