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BY ALAN OSBORN
NEW and potentially significant opportunities for British and other Western architects to practise in China have been opened up by an agreement on the terms for China to join the World Trade Organisation. China’s commitments will allow access for foreign service providers guaranteed by “transparent and automatic licensing procedures” which are set out in detail in its Protocol of Accession.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH and other developed country exporters will be able to take advantage of lower tariffs and abolished restrictive import quotas in the vast markets of China in future, because of the long awaited decision to admit the planet’s fifth largest trading nation to the World Trade Organisation.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in Westminster
THE THIRD annual Information Security Solutions Europe conference has opened at the QE2 centre in London against a background of heightened tensions in the Internet community arising from the terror attacks on the US and a recent world-wide decline in investment in B2B activities.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
TAIWANESE authorities have decided to spend more than NT$ 3 billion on upgrading Kaohsiung international airport in western Taiwan, as well as its seaport facilities. The plan has been announced by the country’s Economic Development Council and includes lengthening runways.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
MOST governments are keenly concerned about the quality of food their people eat, and quite rightly so. They pass laws to ensure food purity and safety and that’s all very commendable – but it can be overdone.

Regulations can, sometimes deliberately, be drawn up so tightly that they effectively bar the sale of food produced in other countries, thus constituting an impediment to free trade.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL cosmetics companies will find it easier to export to China in the future, following the approval of its membership of the World Trade Organisation, a decision that was achieved by China making a wide range of concessions that will liberalise its commercial laws.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has launched an urgent appeal for US$2.9 million, to fund a mass immunisation campaign fighting a potentially disastrous yellow fever outbreak in Abidjan, the Ivory Coast. The WHO is preparing to deliver vaccine from an international stockpile as soon as possible, but will need to secure more medicines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOREIGN companies will be able to hold 100 per cent ownership in hotels in China by March 2005, under the trade deal which led to Chinese membership of the World Trade Organisation being approved last week. Until now, international hotel groups have had to work with a Chinese partner in formal joint-ventures, as a condition of being able to trade in China.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SMALL and medium-sized businesses in Britain will have a new tool on their side to help them prepare and cope with economic change in the workplace, spurred on by factors such as new legislation, the demanding and ever-changing market of technology and the development of a multi-tasked workforce.…

Keith Nuthall
TIGHTER security measures are to be introduced in airports across the European Union in the wake of the terrorist destruction of New York’s World Trade Centre. The reforms were ordered by the European Union Council of Ministers for transport, sitting in emergency session, and will inevitably lead to some inconvenience and additional delays for business travellers.…