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BY KEITH NUTHALL

DETAILED proposals aimed at ending the long-running World Trade Organisation (WTO) Doha Development Round food liberalisation food talks were released this afternoon (Tue 17-7). Negotiation chairman Crawford Falconer released formulas for cutting tariffs and trade-distorting production subsidies, whose range are much narrower than in last year’s ill-fated proposals which sparked the talks’ suspension.…

BY SAEED AKHTAR BALOCH, in Lahore

WITH a long established food manufacturing sector and strong commodity production, the Pakistan food industry, one of the largest industries in the country, has grown with an average pace of 10% over the last three years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DETAILED proposals for the World Trade Organisation Doha Development Round food liberalisation food talks have been released. For food production subsidies, they suggest the EU cuts by 75% or 85%; the US and Japan 66% or 73%. Regarding tariffs, for rich countries these would fall 48-52% for lowest duties, and 66-73% for the highest tariffs.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo KANSAI International Airport opens its second runway on August 2nd, making it the first hub facility in Japan to have multiple runways of 4,000 metres and allowing it to become operational 24 hours a day. Constructed on a man-made island in Osaka Bay, KIX intends to increase both passenger and cargo flights, particularly in peak-time hours.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo

KANSAI International Airport opens its second runway on August 2nd, making it the first hub facility in Japan to have multiple runways of 4,000 metres and allowing it to become operational 24 hours a day.
Constructed on a man-made island in Osaka Bay, KIX intends to increase both passenger and cargo flights, particularly in peak-time hours.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) REACH legislation for the registration and authorisation of chemicals came into effect on June 1 and will have a major effect on the tobacco industry. The industry’s detractors have long been keen to use REACH to control the chemicals added to cigarettes in particular, and the European Parliament had pressed for the law to single out tobacco as a sector requiring scrutiny under the law.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

DIFFERENT parts of the world have devised a wide range of regulations to promote biofuels as an answer to traditional fuels posed by supply and environmental concerns. Japan began promoting alternative fuels in the mid-70s following the oil crisis, replacing oil-powered electric generators with units driven by alternative fuels, as well as natural gas, coal and nuclear power.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

DIFFERENT parts of the world have devised a wide range of regulations to promote biofuels as an answer to traditional fuels posed by supply and environmental concerns. Japan began promoting alternative fuels in the mid-70s following the oil crisis, replacing oil-powered electric generators with units driven by alternative fuels, as well as natural gas, coal and nuclear power.…

BY GAVIN BLAIR, in Tokyo

ON May 28 this year Japanese beauty queen Riyo Mori was crowned Miss Universe 2007 in Mexico City. The 20-year-old former ballet dancer who had studied in Canada and New York was the first Japanese woman to win the contest in nearly half a century.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo

WITH a quick scrubbing motion, Tatsuya Ishihara commits an act that is tantamount to a crime in the vehicle industry. The to-and-fro of the wire brush has etched scars in the black paint on the bonnet of the brand new Nissan X-Trail SUV that would normally require a return to the workshop.…