Search Results for: South Africa

BY MARK ROWE
ONE of Russia’s leading health and beauty retailers, Pharmacy Chain 36.6, has acquired 73 regional outlets in the southern (Russian Federation) Republic of Bashkortostan. The purchases involve the takeover by 36.6 of the local Leko pharmacy chain in the republic, including 30 stores in the capital city of Ufa and stores in 17 other cities across Bashkortostan.…

KEITH NUTHALL
AN ACTION plan has been launched by the European Commission to help African developing countries export cotton and cope with price fluctuations in the market. The scheme involves Brussels supporting new financial instruments and commodity risk insurance schemes, to supply investment and cushion price changes, amongst other measures.…

BY PHILIP FINE

HONG Kong, China, Poland, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea are among 18 countries restricting US poultry imports, after four American states – Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Texas – discovered cases of a new variant of bird flu.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE US Agriculture Research Service is investigating the extent to which grass-fed free range cattle produce meat that is leaner and more tender than beef from feed-lot fattened animals. Its initial aim is to help market the mostly grass-fed cattle of the Appalachian mountain range in the American South, with farms exploiting the "natural beef" market niche, selling directly to retail outlets and wholesalers.…

BY RICHARD HURST
THE HUNDRED-year-old Kilomoto gold mine in the north east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is to resume its gold production this month. Cosma Balongelwa, managing director of the mine, said that it had recommissioned equipment in January and that its management were expecting to produce three to four kilogrammes of gold in the next two weeks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has signed a free trade deal with Australia, paving the way for large-scale exports into the American market of Australian seafood, both farmed and wild. Upon the ratification and coming into force of the agreement, Australian seafood exports, currently worth around A$140 million (US$110 million), “will enter the USA market duty free immediately”, said a note from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has called on its developed country governments to do more to encourage broadband rollout, saying particular emphasis was needed on expanding services to remote and rural areas. Its detailed report said government’s needed to encourage as many technical means as possible to achieve this end, treating different technologies neutrally.…

BY MARK ROWE
IN tough economic times, an industry has to sell itself harder. It is no surprise, then, that if you glance at the websites of Singapore’s leading paint companies, you will see plenty of buzzwords such as “technology”, “improvement” and “development”.…

BY RICHARD HURST
THE PROPOSED Rand 750 million (US$112 million) expansion of South Africa’s Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) is expected to proceed in March 2004, on conclusion of various agreements between key stakeholders Portnet, the port authority and Transnet, the country’s national transport utility.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
A CHINESE government corporation has struck an agreement with two Papua New Guinean companies to advance the A$855 million (US$675 million) Ramu Nickel project to development. The Ramu Nickel Mine is located in the mountainous Madang Province, just south of this region’s capital Madang on the Papua New Guinea (PNG) north coast.…