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BY MARK GODFREY, in Beijing

THE CHINA National Publications Import and Export Corporation, which controls imports of books, imported 50,000 English language copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The company usually orders about 100 copies of popular English language books.…

BY MARK ROWE

SCIENTISTS are on the verge of knitting nanofibres together to create garments with new standards of durability, thinness, flexibility and waterproofing. The development is seen as a breakthrough in nanotechnology, where scientists have grappled for several years to find a way of knitting minute nanofibres together.…

BY SUZANNE KOELEGA, in Sint Maarten
AS leaders of various Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries and US President George Bush debated regional security in Washington DC in June, Caribbean nations continue to struggle with serious commercial crime that threatens their regional stability.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, in London, and JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo
THE INTRODUCTION on June 1 of the European Union’s (EU) Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals system – better known as REACH – will have a far-reaching impact on chemical manufacturers and distributors around the world, with companies operating in Japan expecting it to lead to higher costs – although they accept that its aims are positive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CHAIRMAN of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round has revealed the key G4 Group within the negotiations (the US, Brazil, European Union and India – loosely representing all WTO factions) were now “seriously engaged” and talking “about substance” regarding a final deal.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Abu Dhabi
HOW to better regulate the popular Middle East and south Asian alternate remittance system (ARS) known as hawala, which has been linked to money laundering, organised crime and terrorist financing, was the focus of the recent Fourth International Conference on Hawala at the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Abu Dhabi.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in Westminster
ENERGY experts, officials and politicians from around the word have told a senior London conference ‘The New Politics of Energy: Europe in a Global Context’ how with rapidly global energy markets changing rapidly at present, the European Union is becoming more disadvantaged in coping with the coming new realities.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London
EUROPEAN Union (EU) auto repair firms have criticised formal pledges by four automobile manufacturers to provide access to their technical data saying that vital information is still being withheld. The four manufacturers – DaimlerChrysler, Toyota, General Motors and Fiat – were ordered by the European Commission earlier this year to improve repair firms’ access to their technical data following findings that information supplied in respect of the Mercedes-Benz, Smart, Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Toyota, Opel and Vauxhall brands was “problematic.”…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in Westminster
A SENIOR American nuclear industry advisor has told a global energy conference of his optimism that a “nuclear renaissance” is now possible in the US after 27 years in which no new reactors have been ordered.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE FRENCH tobacco market is astir and it’s quite possible that such iconic brands as Gitanes and Gauloise, part of the Franco-Spanish Altardis group with some 30% of the French cigarette market, will no longer be independently owned by the year-end.…