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Couple identified in Industry shooting (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) - Investigators are trying to determine if a man and pregnant woman found dead in an Industry residence were victims of a murder-suicide, authorities said.

Singapore eyes Asia's booming int'l arbitration industry (Eastday.com) - Singapore could play a major role in Asia's booming international arbitration industry, said Law Minister and Deputy Prime Minister S. Jayakumar yesterday.

China gives toy industry crash course in quality (Chinapost.com.tw) - BEIJING -- Facing pressure to clean up its toy industry, China has rounded up more than 1,000 toy company managers and government officials for a crash course in quality supervision, the official Xinhua news agency said Saturday.

Music industry exec bleeps his way onto reality show (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - Irv Gotti leans back behind his shiny metallic desk at Murder Inc. headquarters in New York and laughs. There are people waiting in his conference room. His Blackberry has been vibrating with new e-mails. And the phone and the intercom have been buzzing regularly. After all, the Murder Inc. chief executive is busy plotting a comeback for his company, once the hottest label in the music industry, ...

Construction industry weighs in (Aspen Daily News) - SNOWMASS VILLAGE — Contractors are none too thrilled about a proposed townwide construction mitigation plan that will more closely regulate the development industry. They say it’s unnecessary and heavy handed, and would cause a lot of additional work.

Radiohead giveaway unsettles an industry in flux (AFP via Yahoo! News) - Radiohead shocked the music industry last week when they gave away their new album for whatever price fans wanted to pay, the latest in a series of radical experiments by leading artists.

Industry deaths attributed to murder-suicide (The Beaver County Times) - INDUSTRY - The two people discovered in an Industry home Saturday afternoon were both killed by gunshots to the chest in an apparent murder-suicide, investigators said Sunday.

(AFX UK Focus) 2007-10-15 04:23 GMT: China Devt Bank to provide 80 bln yuan to support high-tech industry (Interactive Investor) - BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - China Development Bank (CDB),one of the country's three policy banks, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) to provide 80 bln yuan to support China's high-tech industry, the NDRC said in a statement on its web site.

Tourism Industry Seminar Heads to Dunedin (Scoop.co.nz) - Tourism pumps well over $320 million into economy of the Dunedin region each year and a tourism industry seminar being held in Dunedin on 16 October aims to help local operators increase that contribution.

Oil industry hurting as crude prices climb (The Globe and Mail) - NEW YORK — Drivers aren't the only ones being squeezed by record oil prices. A surprising casualty of the escalating cost of crude and sagging pump prices turns out to be the oil industry itself.