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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE JAPANESE government has warned that anticipated increased airspace capacity on the route between its Fukuoka air traffic control zone and that of Shanghai, in China, may not be available next year. Reduced vertical separation minimum (RVSM) services are being introduced on flight path A593 between Japan and China, but not on the SADLI section adjoining Chinese and North Korean airspace.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYKE
THE CENTRAL Japan International Airport Co. is to offer around Yen 700,000 per large commercial airliner at this third hub, Japanese newspapers claim. This compares with Yen 950,000 at Narita and Yen 830,000 at Kansai.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has been authorised by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to impose retaliatory duties on US knitted products for failing to scrap its Byrd Amendment law allowing payments of anti-dumping and countervailing duties to American companies making complaints sparking such tariffs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONSULTANTS Charles River has called on European Union (EU) member states to coordinate tax breaks they offer pharmaceutical companies for research, to maximise resulting benefits. A report ordered by the European Commission warns these could be frittered away if used to attract pharmaceutical companies from one EU country to another.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYKE
A RENOVATION and expansion of Yangon International Airport, Myanmar, is to be completed by the end of 2005 at a cost of US$36 million. The country’s construction ministry, private Myanmar company Asia World, Japan’s Taisei Corp., and Singapore architectural consultants CPG are involved in the scheme, the 7-Days journal reported.…

BY MARK ROWE
AT the start of the 21st century, technology appears set to revolutionise health care in the same way as the discovery of anaesthesia, antiseptics and penicillin. And this is about far more than computer systems that make waiting lists more efficient or advances in keyhole surgery.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INCREASED compensation of up to US$1.152 billion for damage caused by serious oil spills will be made available from March 3 next year, when an International Oil Pollution Compensation Supplementary Fund comes into being. This follows the ratification of its founding protocol by Spain, fulfilling the minimum number of major oil importing states required for the formal creation of this International Maritime Organisation (IMO)-coordinated fund.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has been authorised by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to impose retaliatory duties on US textile products for failing to scrap its Byrd Amendment law allowing payments of anti-dumping and countervailing duties to American companies making complaints sparking such tariffs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS a truly global criminal problem, it is only right that fighting money laundering is a key priority of the United Nations (UN). Its general assembly and key committees have made declarations and approved conventions on the subject, and its specialist agencies have also devoted time, money, specialist staff and energy to fighting the problem.…

Keith Nuthall
THE JAPANESE government has come under pressure from the United States Trade Representative (USTR) office to cut landing and user fees at its major international airports. The call came in advice from USTR deputy Josette Sheeran Shiner, handed over to Japan foreign minister Ichiro Fujisaki, in Washington.…