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BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE CASHEW Export Promotion Council of India has claimed stiff competition from rival producers, such as Vietnam, depressed Indian cashew exports April-December 2003 to 72,042 tonnes, from 77,923 tonnes the previous year (April-December).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND MARK ROWE
THE SPREAD of the bird flu virus is still not under control, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned, pointing to new outbreaks amongst poultry in Cambodia, China, Indonesia and Laos. The FAO said that more than 80 million chickens have so far been culled, excluding those in China: (Indonesia 15 million; Thailand 30 million; Vietnam 30 million; and Pakistan, 4 million).…

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 MARK ROWE
INDONESIAN parliamentarians have called for ban on sugar imports until February to stabilise the tumbling domestic price of the commodity. Sugarcane farmers have complained about low-cost sugar imports from Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia.…

BY MARK ROWE
INDONESIAN parliamentarians have called for ban on sugar imports until February to stabilise the tumbling domestic price of the commodity. Sugarcane farmers have complained about low-cost sugar imports from Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, is supporting the commercial manufacture of woven grass handbags in a remote south-west region of Vietnam. It is funding skills training for the local Khmer-speaking of the wetland Ha Tien plain, so that the quality of their grass handbags is high enough to guarantee sales in tourist markets, such as in the regional centre of Ho Chi Minh City.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
VIETNAM has launched an ambitious reform of its judiciary, which it wants to make more efficient and independent to underpin its drive towards doubling its gross domestic product in the next 10 years through a thriving private business sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TOURISM once was regarded as a key to the developing world’s ills, allowing poor countries to make money out of their natural landscape and cultural attractions, but as with most success stories, there is a downside. In some countries, tourism has boomed so suddenly and aggressively, the development it has sparked has threatened to go out of control, spoiling the delights that lured tourists in the first place and creating a host of new environmental problems for governments to deal with.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have widened an anti-dumping duty imposed on Chinese exports of zinc oxide, following claims from Eurometaux that cargoes have been illegally re-routed via Vietnam to avoid the tariff.

The EU producer association had alleged that following the imposition of the original duties last year – ranging from 6.9 to 28 per cent on zinc oxide with a purity of not less than 93 per cent – there was “a significant increase in imports from Vietnam, while imports from China decreased substantially during the same time span.”…