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BY MONICA DOBIE
GUINNESS UDV has signaled optimism about the future of “party drinks” such as alcopops amidst the gloom of the war against terrorism, by buying a major Pennsylvania brewery operated by Pabst Brewing to expand production of Smirnoff Ice malt beverage.…

BY KATE REW
OPPONENTS of America’s largest cat litter mining project in northern Nevada have persuaded the local planning commission to refuse the production company Oil-Dri a ‘special use permit,’ which gives it the right to process the mineral at the mine site.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE EL Paso Corporation, of Texas, is making preparations to begin work on the Blue Atlantic Transmission System, a pipeline project designed to transport new natural gas supplies off the coast of Canada’s Nova Scotia to eastern and the north-eastern regions of the USA.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TRAFFICKING of endangered species, and other environmental crimes such as smuggling pollutants, is a billion dollar business says the Milan-based United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, (UNICRI), which has published a study on these modern scourges.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is lending Euro 58 million, (US$50 million), to Vega do Sul S.A., to build a cold-rolling and hot-dip galvanizing plant in São Fernando do Sul, in the state of Santa Catarina, in southern Brazil.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AGREEMENT of a Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, (UNESCO), may not help museums gain access to treasures from shipwrecks and sunken buildings, specialists in the UK have claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHOCOLATE sales have been buoyed in north America following the terror attacks in the United States and the deepening recession says John Rowsome, President of the Confectionery Manufacturers of Canada. Speaking to the Toronto Globe and Mail he said: “Candy sales are exceedingly buoyant.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HEALTH experts have been discussing a report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, (OECD), which has shown Britain performs poorly against its competitors in western Europe and north America, regarding the number of nurses employed per head of population in the late 1990’s.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BOOM in the robot market that continued through the 1990’s into last year has hit the skids in north America, where demand plummeted by 28 per cent in the half-year to June. However, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and International Federation of Robotics says that in Europe, the market is still expanding, with sales rising by 11 per cent in the first six months of 2001.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
DESPITE its rejection by America, the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has now been agreed and is set to move towards ratification and implementation within two years. Ministers from 180 countries reached a compromise deal over the treaty after lengthy negotiations in Marrakesh, Morocco at the week-end (finished on Saturday 10th).…