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BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo

OSAKA, Japan-based Sumitomo Electrical Industries Ltd has got a foot in the door of the German automobile wiring harness market with its purchase of Volkswagen Bordnetze GmbH.

Approved by the European Commission, using its authority over international mergers affecting Europe, the cost of the deal is not being announced, but the Japanese company believes the acquisition will allow it to broaden its business throughout Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ROMANIA is desperate to join the European Union (EU) but it remains unclear whether that desperation extends to clamping down on business crime, one of the key obstacles that Romania must overcome to gain entry to the club.…

BY KENCHO WANGDI, in Thimphu, Bhutan

WHAT is happiness, really? In many developed nations such as in the US and Europe it is equated with money and prosperity.

Economists use GNP (Gross National Product) as representing the well-being of a nation, on the belief that material development, as measured by GNP growth, is correlated to human happiness.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

INTRODUCTION

THE WORLD’S multilateral food trading system today stands at a crossroads: faced with the suspension of the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Development Round, it can either retreat to protectionism, leavened by a series of competitive bilateral trade deals, or it can grasp the nettle of liberal free trade, slash subsidies and tariffs, and then watch the economic rewards roll in.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTRODUCTION

THE WORLD’S multilateral food trading system today stands at a crossroads: faced with the suspension of the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Development Round, it can either retreat to protectionism, leavened by a series of competitive bilateral trade deals, or it can grasp the nettle of liberal free trade, slash subsidies and tariffs, and then watch the economic rewards roll in.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BSE is on the decline around the world, with the good news being mirrored by a fall in cases of the human-version variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has claimed. The number of BSE cases have dropped at 50% annually over the past three years, claims the FAO, with just 474 animals dying of the disease worldwide in 2005, compared with 878 in 2004 and 1,646 in 2003.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

A DECLINE in smoking has reduced the number of cancer deaths in the United States for the first time in 70 years, according to the American Cancer Society. The drop occurred in 2003 (the latest available figures), when there were 556,902 cancer deaths, 369 fewer than in 2002.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) competition commissioner has indicated she could push for regulatory reform to improve competition in EU energy markets, in parallel with legal enforcement action using existing rules. Neelie Kroes highlighted "bundling of generation, supply, pipelines, grids, and distribution (as) at the heart of the current EU energy market failure."…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

THE INDIAN economy is booming and so, as a result, is the country’s US$1.8 billion paint and coating industry, which registered a 10 to 12% annual growth for third consecutive year, taking 2002-03, 2003-04, and 2004-05 into account.…

BY JANE MOIR, in Hong Kong

CONSTRUCTION is on the up, people are eagerly buying homes, cars are being churned out at a rapid pace and the 2008 Beijing Olympics are just around the corner. The demand for paint and coatings in China should never have been better.…