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BY MARK ROWE
THE INDONESIA The Indonesian textile market is being hit hard by a black market in used garments made overseas, according to the Indonesian Textile Association. At least 480 million pieces of used garments are shipped into the country every year, from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the United States and European countries, it said.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE UNITED States may have found an effective means to recover stolen vehicles. It has signed treaties that will provide a mechanism by which automobiles that have been driven out of the country by thieves can be retrieved.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
MICHAEL Grimaldi, president of General Motors Canada, has warned that the country’s automobile manufacture sector will continue to lose business to the United States unless more money is pumped into making Canada looking more attractive to new auto makers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GOOD practice of an innovative honey company has been highlighted through its winning a United Nations Development Programme prize for promoting small-scale honey production in Kenya. Honey Care Africa, supported by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, has won the US$30,000 Equator Prize.…

BY MATTHEW WELLS
A NEW survey of business leaders in the United States carried out by the security professionals’ organisation ASIS International, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the US Chamber of Commerce has indicated that around US$59 billion dollars-worth of intellectual property and information were stolen in America over the year to last June.…

BY MATT WELLS, in New York
A NEW survey of business leaders in the United States carried out by the security professionals’ organisation ASIS International, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the US Chamber of Commerce has indicated that around US$59 billion dollars-worth of intellectual property and information were stolen in America over the year to last June.…

BY MARK ROWE
ENVIRONMENTAL organisations together with a local authority have issued a lawsuit against the American government for its alleged contribution to global warming. The suit filed in the US District Court in San Francisco claims that two American export credit agencies illegally provided US$32 billion in financing for oil fields, pipelines and coal-fired power plants over the past 10 years without assessing their contribution to global warming.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNDETERRED by the scientific world’s comprehensive ignorance of the deep-sea environment, the United Nations’ International Seabed Authority is pressing ahead with research projects that will help it estimate the effect of submarine mining on species that have yet to be discovered.…

By ALAN OSBORN
Farmers can’t complain that they lack information about long-term trends in agriculture. The European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the various United Nations food agencies, specialised agricultural research institutes and of course national governments all seem driven to make regular projections about crops, prices and markets several years into the future.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SPECIALIST United Nations agency has admitted that unless careful precautions are taken, the future exploitation of mineral deposits on the bed of deep oceans could lead to the extinction of species, many of which have yet to be discovered.…