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Dollar Falls as Report May Show Slowdown in Services Industry (Bloomberg.com) - Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar declined against the yen for the first day in four on speculation an industry report will show growth at U.S. service companies slowed in September.

Dollar Falls as Report May Show Slowdown in Services Industry (Bloomberg.com) - Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar declined against the yen for the first day in four in Asia on speculation an industry report will show growth at U.S. service companies slowed in September.

Cable TV piracy cost Philippine industry 70 million last year (AFP via Yahoo! News) - Pirate cable television operators in the Philippines cost the local industry an estimated 70 million dollars last year, the regional cable and satellite association said.

Industry, travel agents sponsor "cruise night" (Seattle Times) - Travel agencies nationwide, including in Washington, are hosting what the cruise industry bills as the "World's Largest Cruise Night" on Oct. 19. It's...

Golf industry energy resonates at the 2005 PGA Fall Expo in Las Vegas (PGA) - More than 4,000 industry professionals were on site for the 2005 PGA Fall Expo, the industry's annual fall marketplace.

Hurricanes Deal Sugar Industry a Serious Blow (NPR) - Hurricanes Rita and Katrina hit Louisiana's sugar growers hard, flattening and flooding cane fields just as the harvest was to begin. The annual harvest festival was canceled last week -- for the first time in memory since World War II. There are fears the storms will adversely impact the sugar industry. Beth Fertig of member station KRVS reports.

Travel Industry Gets New Online Domain (Washington Post) - NEW YORK -- A new online domain for the travel industry is open for business. Airlines, theme parks, restaurants, tourism offices and others in travel and tourism are eligible for Web sites and e-mail addresses ending in ".travel."

Movie industry to move online to beat pirates (Entertainment Weekly) - LONDON (Reuters) - The film industry is working to launch online movie download services to avoid the same fate as the piracy-ridden music industry, NBC Universal Chairman and Chief Executive Bob Wright said on Tuesday.

TASK FORCE UPSETS INDUSTRY (PharmaBiz) - Control is a term not liked by the industry and trade for obvious reasons anywhere in the world. And the business community has been quite successful in forcing the authorities to phase out controls on many industries over the last three decades.

Vietnam Chamber Of Commerce, Industry To Launch Online Bank (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News) - The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) will launch an online data bank to serve export activities in the fourth quarter of the year, the organisation has announced.