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BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
A JAPANESE company has developed a system for manufacturing clean seawater ice, which is softer than freshwater ice and so can be used to transport fish products to market in cool temperatures without the scarring or bruising that often occurs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DEVELOPING countries have banded together at the World Trade Organisation to call for its Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPs) to be interpreted as allowing their governments to take any steps “to protect public health,” including the authorisation of generic production of medicines under patent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINLAND is the world’s most technologically advanced country, according to a United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP), report, which puts the UK at number seven in its league table, also behind the USA, Sweden, Japan, South Korea and the Netherlands.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINLAND is the world’s most technologically advanced country, according to a United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP), report, which puts the UK at number seven in its league table, also behind the USA, Sweden, Japan, South Korea and the Netherlands.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TIMING of concessions that can be achieved at the World Trade Organisation’s agricultural round, sweeping away the high tariffs, import quotas, production subsidies and export credits that make the working lives of every agricultural exporter more of a struggle, are likely to be set in the next three months.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
TRD Industries Co. Ltd., of Japan, has developed a wind power system for lorries, where several units of compact propellers and generators are fitted on the cab roof. The resulting electricity powers the air conditioning, saving fuel.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE JAPANESE Automobile Manufacturers Association, (JAMA), has reached agreement with the European Commission that all new vehicles sold in the EU from 2003 will carry daytime running lights and anti-lock brake systems, as part of a voluntary package to improve pedestrian safety.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE KYOTO protocol on climate change was adopted by 186 nations in Bonn, but without the participation of the US, which is responsible for 25 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.

President Bush is now likely to come under intense international pressure to produce an American plan to tackle climate change.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
FED-EX has announced that it has integrated its import/export facilities at Kansai International Airport, Japan, opening a new centre with 3,580 square meters floor space and employing 144 employees; it is 1.3 times the combined size of previous

import and export facilities, a FedEx statement said.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
JAPAN is to grant Vietnam loans totalling US$220 million, to help it expand Ho Chi Minh City’s international airport, which should enable the government to postpone its relocation

for at least 10 years, state media reports have said.…