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BY MARK ROWE
DAEWOO Shipbuilding Marine Engineering Co, the world’s second largest shipbuilder, has won a US$426 million order so supply an oil and gas rig to Angola. The South Korean firm said it would build the rig in the west African state for US oil giant ChevronTexaco Corp by the end of 2003.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FEED the world. Bob Geldof. Don’t they know it’s Christmas time? Food aid: it is supposed to be simple. Poor countries have hungry people. Rich countries have fat people. The developed world sends food to the developing world.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TALKS held between the USA and India over a complaint regarding American rules of origin legislation for clothing and textile products have failed, with New Delhi formally requesting that a World Trade Organisation disputes panel be established to settle the row; the Indian government claims that they unfairly favour the US and European Union textile industries.…

BY MARK ROWE
CHINESE scientists have successfully cloned an endangered species of high quality cattle. The clone calf, named Boeve, was born in April and is from a breed of beef cattle from the northern Hebei province. The cell nucleus containing genetic materials was taken from the ovary and ear of a six-month-old cow.…

Keith Nuthall
THE JAPANESE government has promised to annually increase import quotas for silk from China until 2005, when, under the terms of the World Trade Organisation’s Agreement on Textiles and clothing, they will be scrapped altogether. Until then, Japan has promised to widen quotas following consultations with the Chinese government.…

BY MICHAEL FOX
DIPLOMATS at the United Nations’ headquarters in New York say that the troubled Iraq Oil for Food Programme is in danger of running into serious problems once again unless alleged ambiguities and contradictions in the current system are sorted out.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DECISION-MAKING of world food standards body Codex Alimentarius could be made simpler and more transparent, under a review by the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation and World Health Organisation. They think, with the World Trade Organisation increasingly using Codex standards to adjudicate food trade disputes, governments and other parties should have more input into their establishment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INSURANCE companies are being unnecessarily exposed to risk through employment accident policies because of the estimated two million workers who die annually through job-related accidents or diseases, eighty per cent of which are preventable, the International Labour Organisation has claimed.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
SYDNEY is the “defamation capital of the English-speaking world” according to a British legal expert working in Australia’s largest city. Based on his research, figures show that one writ is served for every 79,000 people in the state of New South Wales; a higher rate than England, (one writ per 121,000 people), and much higher than the United States, where the proportion us one writ per 2.3 million people.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATIONAL governments of the European Union should be prevented from imposing weekend or holiday driving bans on lorries carrying fresh flowers or horticultural products on international journeys, the European Parliament’s transport committee has said.

Voting to amend long debated proposals regulating the ability of Member States to restrict HGV movements on designated international main roads in the so-called Trans-European Network, (to reduce noise and nuisance), the EP’s transport committee has proposed limiting these powers regarding the garden trade sector.…