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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) is planning to lend US$200 million to Russia supermarket owner Dorinda, which would use the money to expand its O’Key chain over the next three years. It is planning to launch five O’Key supermarkets in Moscow this year, having expanded from the St Petersburg area.…

BY MARK ROWE

INTERNATIONAL cigarette companies are having a profitable time investing in Russia, which remains a relatively soft touch for tobacco marketers. Smoking is still a badge of class and aspiration in the country: smoking Soviet-era unfiltered ‘papirosi’ is now seen as the preserve of those on low incomes and spurned by anyone with aspirations to a Western-style lifestyle.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) is planning to lend US$200 million to Russia food supermarket owner Dorinda, which would use the money to expand its O’Key chain over the next three years, opening five outlets in Moscow this year.…

BY LUCY JONES, in Dallas; ALAN OSBORN, in London; KARRYN CARTELLE, in Tokyo; BILL CORCORAN, in Johannesburg; PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut; RACHEL JONES, in Caracas; MARK ROWE; and KEITH NUTHALL

WITH the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round being slow to proceed since its 2001 launch – and only this year approaching something resembling and end game – free traders wanting to encourage global commerce have looked to bilateral and regional trade deals.…

BY KARRYN CARTELLE, in Auckland; LUCY JONES, in Dallas, Texas; MONICA

DOBIE, in Ottawa; and BILL CORCORAN, in Johannesburg

NEW Zealand has long retained a position of prominence in the global butter products

industry, despite the fact that competitors are always looking to seize export markets in

what is an increasingly competitive market.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

AFTER 30 years of international sanctions, limited uranium reserves and stiff political opposition to the recent Indo-US nuclear deal, Indian scientists are still pushing ahead with nuclear research – following the country’s long established Three Stage Nuclear power programme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Trade Organisation’s (WTO) seven-year-old Doha Development Round is planning the final phase of its negotiations, which may well lead to the elimination of most import duties on cars, trucks, vans and auto parts worldwide.

That is the ambition of a special automobile sectoral negotiation within the round’s market access for non-agricultural products (or NAMA) talks, which WTO member countries hope to write into a completed Doha agreement later this year.…

BY MARK GODFREY, in Beijing

METHANE recovery is a boom industry in China. A frenetic dig for coal to drive its economy means atmospheric concentrations of methane are growing. And this is a problem – methane is not only a greenhouse gas that retains 25 times more heat than carbon dioxide, it hangs around in the atmosphere a lot longer.…

BY FIDELMA COOK, PAUL COCHRANE and KEITH NUTHALL

SONATRACH, Algeria’s national oil and gas company, has made no secret to its determination to strengthen its position in Europe, which already accounts for around 60% of Algeria’s export earnings….the bulk of which is in gas.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the UK government that it intends to build a new generation of nuclear power plants stands out, not just because of the scale of the proposals, but because it is the first such comprehensive initiative in Europe for some years.…