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BY MARK ROWE
A GLASS of beer a day keeps old age at bay, apparently. A Japanese scientist has developed a beer that he claims makes you look younger by improving the texture and smoothness of your skin. While there was a passing craze in the 1970s for women to wash their hair in beer to give it more “body”, this brew, translated as “facial treatment beer”, is drunk, rather than applied.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN federal government is suing the country’s major tobacco firms for CDN$1.5 billion, alleging they illegally evaded tax by profiting from the sale of contraband cigarettes in the early nineties, while failing to disclose these earnings. A dozen companies have been accused, all of them part the R.J.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-GLOBALISATION activists will not like it, but there are signs that September’s World Trade Organisation summit in Cancun might be able to deliver what has eluded political leaders since the WTO’s agricultural liberalisation talks began in 2000: the beginnings of a deal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the proposed acquisition of Minolta by Konica, two Japanese manufacturers of cameras, photocopiers and other imaging products, following a promise by Konica to sell its 40 per cent stake in Sekonic, also of Japan, a photometers manufacturer.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
JAPAN has appealed against a WTO ruling that ruled its quarantine measures on imported apples from the USA could not be justified on health grounds under the WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures.…

BY MARK ROWE
THAILAND’S leather goods exports have slipped for the third consecutive year, as manufacturers of international brands of leather goods move away from the country to tap cheaper labour costs in China. Exports are expected to fall below last year’s total value of Baht 70 billion (US$1.6 billion), according to the Thai Leather Goods Association, which said that the SARS virus and the Iraq war had further added pressure to the market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE USA has won a disputes hearing at the WTO, with a panel ruling that Japan’s quarantine measures on imported American apples cannot be justified on health grounds under the rules of the WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures.…

BY MARK ROWE
A JAPANESE city authority is positively discriminating in favour of non-smokers when it hires new employees. If a smoking applicant and a non-smoker are rated equally during interviews for city council posts in Yamato, the non-smoker will be favoured.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE USA has won a disputes hearing at the WTO, with a panel ruling that Japan’s quarantine measures on imported American apples cannot be justified on health grounds under the rules of the WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KYOTO Protocol secretariat report has warned that the industrialised world’s greenhouse gas emissions will probably grow this decade, having stabilised during the 1990’s. Based on national government projections, the paper claims combined global warming emissions of Europe, Japan, the US and other highly industrialised countries could grow by eight per cent from 2000 to 2010, (17 per cent over 1990 levels), despite measures already in place to limit them.…