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Auto industry struggling, but spending riding high (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News) - HOUSTON (CP) - All early indicators are that the automotive industry should have a very healthy spending year yet again in 2006 despite recent woes, says marketing firm Industrial Information Resources.

RESTRUCTURING OF CHINA'S TEXTILE INDUSTRY URGED (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Australia & NZ Finance) - Textiles / clothing In spite of hefty increases in production, domestic sales and exports, China's textile industry posted a profit rate of only 3 per cent in 2005 for various reasons.

Restructuring Of China's Textile Industry Urged (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News) - In spite of hefty increases in production, domestic sales and exports, China's textile industry posted a profit rate of only 3 per cent in 2005 for various reasons.

Seafood industry aims to renegotiate marine park boundaries (ABC via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News) - Australia's fishing industry is hopeful it can re-negotiate proposed marine park boundaries, to minimise their impact.

Egg industry 'faces collapse' (ABC via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News) - Egg producers say their industry faces collapse because cheap interstate eggs are flooding the local market.

Taiwan To Invest US$2.6 MLN To Boost Robot Industry (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News) - Taiwan will invest over NT$84 million (US$2.6 million) over the next three years to invigorate the country's robot industry, introducing smart robots into the everyday life of the Taiwanese people, the Chinese-language Economic Daily News reported Friday.

TAIWAN TO INVEST US$2.6 MLN TO BOOST ROBOT INDUSTRY (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Australia & NZ Finance) - Technology Taiwan will invest over NT$84 million (US$2.6 million) over the next three years to invigorate the country's robot industry, introducing smart robots into the everyday life of the Taiwanese people, the Chinese-language Economic Daily News reported Friday.

Seafood industry struggles after storm (WPMI 15) - BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - Biloxi's seafood industry was booming just a year ago, but the once-hugely profitable trade could become only a memory. Another Katrina victim.

Seafood industry aims to renegotiate marine park boundaries (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - Australia's fishing industry is hopeful it can re-negotiate proposed marine park boundaries, to minimise their impact. The Federal Government wants to create extensive marine protected areas between Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia.

NMCC moots 10-year National Manufacturing Initiative to make pharma industry globally competitive (PharmaBiz) - The government has given a principle nod to the suggestions of the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council (NMCC) to launch a ten-year National Manufacturing Initiative to focus on firm level and macro economic initiatives required to make domestic industry globally competitive.