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Should the Securities Industry Have Just One Set of Rules? (New York Times) - The Securities Industry Association, Wall Street's trade and lobbying association, will release today its goals and guidelines for overhauling self-regulatory organizations like the New York Stock Exchange and NASD.

Distance Sought Between Doctors and Drug Industry (Washington Post) - Declaring that the pervasive influence of drug industry money is distorting doctors' treatment decisions and scientific findings, a prestigious panel of medical experts called on their colleagues yesterday to adopt far-reaching new conflict-of-interest policies.

Harper seen unlikely to change oil industry (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - The narrow win by Stephen Harper's Conservatives is not expected to bring much change to Canada's oil industry even though it marks the end of years of uneasy relations with the defeated Liberals, industry officials and analysts said on Tuesday.

Suit Against IBM Shows That Tech Industry Is in Wage Lawyers' Sights (Law.com) - Wage-and-hour lawyers seem to be turning up the heat on the computer industry. A lawsuit filed Tuesday against computer giant IBM Corp. for allegedly not paying overtime to tens of thousands of rank-and-file employees arrives on the heels of a series of suits making similar claims.

Faculty doctors urged to reject drug-industry gifts (Market Watch) - SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- In what could be a bitter pill for faculty doctors who rely on health-care industry funding for training programs, a new report is calling for the near elimination of gifts to doctors from drugmakers and medical-device firms.

Digital music: Industry answers (BBC News) - Key figures in the music industry answer your questions about the way digital technology is being used.

3G To Be Growth Engine For China's Telecom Industry: Analysts (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News) - China's telecom industry is expected to see rapid development in 2006 when the 3G business becomes a big growth engine.

3G TO BE GROWTH ENGINE FOR CHINA'S TELECOM INDUSTRY: ANALYSTS (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Australia & NZ Finance) - Telecommunications China's telecom industry is expected to see rapid development in 2006 when the 3G business becomes a big growth engine.

Tough road ahead for New Zealand mussel industry (Stuff) - New Zealand's mussel industry is doomed if the current economic and bureaucratic climate continues, say industry leaders in Marlborough.

U.S. industry leader apologizes over beef exports to Japan (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News) - _ A leader in the U.S. beef business apologized on behalf of the entire industry Tuesday for an "inexcusable" failure to comply with a trade agreement that led Japan last Friday to reimpose an import ban, in contrast to the rather defensive remarks initially made by members of the beef community.