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BY DEIRDRE MASON and KEITH NUTHALL
THE SPORTS and entertainment industries thirst for sponsorship, and with the ever-growing boom in televising sporting events worldwide via satellite, the chance to expose a drinks company logo to world audiences in their billions should make sponsorship a sellers’ market.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
PRESIDENT George W Bush’s re-election last November has pretty well ruled out any change in the US ban on Cuban cigars for the next four years – if anything, things are likely to get tougher. One of the last things the previous Bush administration did last October was to actually tighten the import ban by barring Americans travelling to Cuba from bringing back up to US$100 dollars worth of Cuban cigars.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is planning to pump Euro 16 million into a Serbian copper mill producing semi-finished copper and brass products. The money will be channelled via Sevojno Rolling Mill’s private owner, Cyprus-based East Point Holdings Ltd, which will use the loan to purchase new equipment and modernise existing plant at the rolling mill in Sevojno, around 100 miles south of Belgrade.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
WHAT does a paint industry do when its closest neighbour is a huge industrial giant with massive manufacturing capabilities and large product innovation budgets? Unfortunately, when examining the Canadian paint sector, the answer is not one of David and Goliath but rather a more practical and unromantic approach.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A BAN on travellers carrying cigarettes across Cyprus’ so-called Green Line between northern Turkish Cyprus and the internationally recognised Greek state to the south has been lifted by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers. In future individuals will be able to carry 70 cigarettes each across the fortified border.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel has told the European Union (EU) to open up its geographical indication protection system to include traditionally made drinks (and foodstuffs) from non-EU countries. The system currently protects EU-made products such a Champagne and Bordeaux, insisting that they are made in their home regions by traditional methods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel has told the European Union (EU) to open up its geographical indication protection system to include traditionally made drinks (and foodstuffs) from non-EU countries. The system currently protects EU-made products such a Champagne and Bordeaux, insisting that they are made in their home regions by traditional methods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, is lending US$2.1 million to the leading book printing firm of west Africa’s Mali, Graphique Industrie, to help it exploit the liberalisation of the country’s education publishing. Until recently, all schoolbooks produced in Mali have been printed and edited by its Ministry of Education, but this year private companies can also supply texts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has called for international cooperation on testing potential vaccines for HIV/AIDS because it is concerned that the current boom in research could exhaust available clinical trial capacity. WHO vaccine research director Marie-Paule Kieny (CORRECT SPELLING) has called for trials to be shared amongst a number of sites, each of whom were responsible for testing vaccines on a particular strain of the disease.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has reported the deaths of 61 diamond miners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from pneumonic plague, which ravaged Middle Ages Europe as ‘the Black Death’. Today 98.7% of the three types of plague cases are found in Africa: worldwide, in 2003, nine countries reported 2,118 cases and 182 deaths, also in the ex-USSR, the Americas and Asia.…