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BY KATE REW
MALE nude figures have been sandblasted into the floor of the American Airlines terminal at Los Angeles International Airport in a controversial piece entitled, “The Wonders of the Heavens and Flying” by Susan Narduli. Some travellers strongly objected when it was first unveiled, but the city’s Cultural Affairs Commission had approved the display, airport spokesman, Tom Winfrey said.…

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.…

BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
THE SOUTH African agriculture and land minister Thoko Didiza has urged wine growers in the Western Cape to embrace automation in the industry, to deal with the loss of low paid labourers who have left the region’s agricultural industries since the onset of black majority rule in 1994.…

Keith Nuthall
What now for the “Havana Club” rum brand name after this month’s

ruling by a panel of the World Trade Organisation in the dispute between

the European Union and the US ? Both sides have claimed a victory of

sorts out of the split ruling, though both agree the struggle is far from

over.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce is claiming the credit for closing down an audacious cyber-scam, the creation of an entirely fictitious country that existed only on the Internet. The problem with the Republic of Port Maria, said the ICC, was that not only did it have its own website, it offered bogus offshore banking services to the unwary.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
As a young man, Larry Stevenson, now 44, served as a paratrooper in the Royal Canadian Armed Forces in peace-keeping.

He graduated from Harvard in business and formed a venture capital company called Pathfinder 1992, bought Smithbooks 1993 and then Coles 1994, merging them to create Chapters in 1995.…

Keith Nuthall
SAN Francisco International Airport (SFO) has dropped plans to take legal action against a design company for creating a logo for Dallas-Fort Worth Airport (D/FW) which was similar to the symbol it designed for the SFO, said airport spokesmen Ron Wilson.…

KEITH NUTHALL
TEXTILE manufacturing countries that are members of the World Trade Organisation have attacked the world’s major importers – the US, the EU, and Canada – for failing to even approach the liberalisation targets imposed by the WTO’s Agreement on Textiles and Clothing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TIMING of concessions that can be achieved at the World Trade Organisation’s agricultural round, sweeping away the high tariffs, import quotas, production subsidies and export credits that make the working lives of every agricultural exporter more of a struggle, are likely to be set in the next three months.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN book sector has seen its share of turbulence in the past 12 months. Last summer Larry Stevenson, a young, successful businessman at the helm of Chapters, the country’s largest book retailer, was pondering ways in which to expand the company further.…