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Cingular Triples Q3 Profit As Some See Industry Slowing (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News) - Defying predictions of an industry slowdown, Cingular Wireless said Wednesday that it tripled third-quarter profit to a record $847 million as sales rose 9.2% to $9.55 billion from the year-earlier period.

No Canada industry emissions cap until 2025: CBC (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Emissions of greenhouse gases from Canadian heavy industry and the energy sector will not be capped until 2025 under the terms of a Clean Air Act to be released later on Thursday, CBC Radio said.

China Moves To Boost Efficiency In Cement Industry (Nasdaq) - BEIJING -(Dow Jones)- China's economic planning agency said Friday it will revamp the nation's inefficient cement industry with new rules that will cut the number of companies from 5,000 to 2,000 by 2020.

Visitor Industry Scrambles to Recover (KGMB 9 Honolulu) - State officials are also busy trying to minimize any damage inflicted upon Hawaii's economic engine, our tourism industry. The state's response has been quick, but will it be effective?

Hong Kong's recording industry launches more legal action against music pirates (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - HONG KONG -- Hong Kong's recording industry vowed this week to rein in more illegal music sharers, threatening to sue 37 people who allegedly uploaded copyrighted music to the Internet.

Report highlights more environmentally friendly sugar industry (ABC via Yahoo!7 Finance) - The Canegrowers organisation has released its second annual report on the environmental performance of the sugar industry.

Zabeel Hall receives strong support from industry (Khaleej Times) - DUBAI — Shaikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Minister for Finance and Industry, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC), toured the newly constructed Zabeel Hall at Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre (DICEC) and declared the new extension "a significant and important development for both the DWTC and the exhibition industry in the Middle

Telegraph chief urges newspaper industry to embrace change and innovation (Daily Telegraph) - Newspapers need courage to confront the changes facing the industry, Murdoch MacLennan, the chief executive of the Telegraph Group, told editors yesterday.

Staff poaching in offshore industry 'threatens future' (The Scotsman) - RIVAL North Sea oil companies are threatening the industry's future by poaching each other's staff with huge pay rises, it was revealed yesterday.

Triad furniture industry sags despite booming High Point Market (News 14 Carolina) - HIGH POINT, N.C. – The High Point Market may be the biggest furniture trade show in the world, but that has not made the local furniture industry immune to hardship.