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BY KEITH NUTHALL
Six chemical companies have been fined a total of 57.53 million euros (about pounds 34.5 million) by the European Commission for price-fixing and market-sharing in respect of sodium gluconate, a chemical mainly used to clean metal and glass.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
A CONSORTIUM led by Thailand’s Italian-Thai Development Plc has won a tender to construct the passenger terminal at the country’s second international airport, Nong Ngu Hao. The group had submitted the lowest bid at 36.67 billion Baht, the Thai government said.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
BRITAIN comes fourth in an international league of 17 developed countries which ranks them according to their achievements, resources and capacity for future development in the field of innovation, the European Commission said today Monday. Sweden comes top followed by the US and Finland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has moved to impose 11.3 per cent definitive anti-dumping duties on imports from Japan of internal gear hubs for bicycles, notably those from Shimano Inc. The formal proposal for approval by EU ministers follows an earlier decision to erect provisional anti-dumping duties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation is moving towards the launch of a general round at its November summit in Qatar, but these negotiations will only be approved if a wrangle affecting the trade in meat and other food products can be resolved.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ROTHMANS Inc.,(Canada), has bought 100 per cent of Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company’s shares for US$275 million.

The purchase price comprises of US$105 million in cash, 4,241,312 common shares of Rothmans, having an ascribed value of US$65 million, and US$105 million in bonds to be issued at closing by Santa Fe and to be repaid over four years from Santa Fe’s operating cash flows.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AUSTRALIAN government has issued the most comprehensive formal proposal favouring the liberalisation of the shipping industry yet made in the ongoing World Trade Organisation round on services.

Its paper said: “Significant barriers to trade and investment in maritime transport services still exist in many member economies.…

BY SWINTEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
A JAPANESE company has developed porous paving slabs that not only soak up excess water, but absorb pollutants from the air. The Taiyu Concrete Industry Co., has developed its so-called Ecowalking Brick, by coating molten and crushed refuse incineration slag with titanium dioxide.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
RESEARCH studies released by the Confederation of Japan Automobile Workers Unions have predicted that there will be 143,000 fewer workers in the domestic automobile industry in 2005 compared with 2000, if Japanese auto sales continue to slump and if automobile and autoparts makers shift more production overseas.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
EUROPEAN Union hauliers have been encouraged to install a ground breaking wind power system for lorries, where two and three units of compact propellers and generators are fitted on the cab roof. The resulting electricity powers the air conditioning, saving fuel.…