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BY RICHARD HURST
BOTSWANA’S diamond sales rose by 4.7 per cent to US$2.17 billion in 2002, due mainly to a buoyant US market, according to Debswana, the company responsible for all the country’s output, which is a partnership between the Botswana government and the South African mining company De Beers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH negotiators failing this Monday to agree liberalisation targets for the World Trade Organisation’s three years old agricultural talks – missing a March 31 deadline – member governments are facing a stiff challenge.

They have until the WTO’s next ministerial summit at Cancun, Mexico, in September, to strike a deal or face potential chaos at this meeting.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, ALAN OSBORN, PHILIP FINE and KEITH NUTHALL

IF there had been feelings bubbling under the surface of the British civil nuclear industry that the regulations governing its security were due for an overhaul, the events of September 11, 2001 – becoming universally known by its American shorthand 9/11 – certainly brought everybody to the table.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
JAPANESE government officials have admitted that there have been shortcomings in the measurement of plutonium in high active liquid waste-storage tanks at Japan’s Tokai Reprocessing Plant, saying that the Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute is now correcting the amount of plutonium declared to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).…

BY MARK ROWE and ALAN OSBORN, in London, PHILIP FINE and MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, and RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg

RATCHETING up security has been a prime concern of the nuclear industry since the September 11 attacks, with all countries possessing commercial reactors addressing the issue to some extent.…

BY EDWARD PETERS
FOR a snapshot of the current state of the Chinese tobacco industry, casual observers need go no further than the massive adverts blanketing some of the main highways in Shanghai, which is generally considered to be the most go-ahead city in the People’s Republic (PRC).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRAZILIAN steel producer V&M do Brazil has struck the largest deal to date under the Kyoto Protocol Clean Development Mechanism. It will see the steel maker selling five million tonnes of greenhouse gas reductions for Euro 15 million to an International Finance Corporation/Dutch government fund, the IFC-Netherlands Carbon Facility.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE PROPOSED acquisition of Bayer’s high-performance pigment business by Sun Chemical, the US subsidiary of Japan’s Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, has a hit a snag. The US Federal Trade Commission says that before any sale goes through, Dainippon must sell off its US-based perylene business.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has abandoned a review of European Union (EU) anti-dumping duties imposed on imports of threaded malleable cast-iron tube or pipe fittings from Brazil, the Czech Republic, Japan, China, South Korea and Thailand, after affected exporters failed to assist Brussels its investigators.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has fined Ajinomoto Co. Inc. of Japan and South Korean companies Cheil Jedang Corp. and Daesang Corp respectively Euro 15.54 million, Euro 2.74 million and Euro 2.28 million each for participating in a price-fixing cartel in the flavour enhancer nucleotides.…