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BY MARK ROWE
BUMI Resources, Indonesia’s largest coal producer, has set a target of increasing coal output by 40 per cent this year. In a move that the company says is aimed to capitalise on an increase in global coal prices that may rise by as much as 20 per cent, Bumi says it plans to produce around 43 million tons, up from 30.6 million last year.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA’S Urals Mining and Metals Company (UGMK) has bought the nation’s second largest zinc smelter, Elektrotsink. UGMK, which is headed by entrepreneur Iskander Makhmudov, said it intends to invest in production at the zinc smelter factory and produce up to 85,000 metric tons of zinc at Electrotsink this year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE EUROPEAN Commission has offered to send disease control specialists to Vietnam to help the country deal with the outbreak of Avian Influenza in chicken flocks, in response to a World Health Organisation appeal for support.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and MARK ROWE
THE STANDING Committee for the Food Chain and Animal Health of the European Union (EU) has extended until August 15 the suspension of EU imports of fresh chicken meat and chicken products from Thailand because of the bird flu outbreak.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SERIES of exemptions from the European Union’s (EU) new energy taxation directive have been proposed by the European Commission for the eastern and southern European countries joining the EU in May (barring Cyprus).

They would be added to the already long list of exemptions negotiated by existing Member States that prompted EU internal market Commissioner Frits Bolkestein to liken the legislation to “Gruyere cheese”.…

From Alan Osborn
The European Parliament has acted under its own initiative to put

up a plan to protect the EU’s tuna industry – both the fleet and the

canning sector. The Parliament has approved a report by a Spanish member,

Daniel VARELA SUANZES-CARPEGNA, which urges a reversal of present EU

policy towards the industry and calls for creation of a new

properly-staffed and financed unit within the European Commission to deal

with tuna.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AQUATIC Animals Commission (of the Office International des Épizooties – OIE – animal health organisation) has reported an outbreak of mikrocytosis amongst oyster beds in the western USA state of Washington. The organisation has reported five outbreaks, in the South Puget Sound and also the San Juan Islands.…

BY RICHARD HURST
IF there is one area of the world where a zealous anti-money laundering practitioner descend into the pits of despair, it would surely be west Africa, where there are a comprehensive lack of effective controls over the flow of money in and out of the region.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SERBIA & Montenegro’s largest grain trading company Yu-Point is to expand sales into south-east Europe helped by a Euro 12 million European Bank for Reconstruction and Development/Fortis Bank loan.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COALITION of major business groups has filed an amicus brief at the United States Supreme Court, calling on it to “clarify” the USA’s 1789 Alien Tort Statute, which they claim is being abused by special interest groups.…