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Research centre plans to boost seafood industry (ABC via Yahoo!7 News) - Australia's seafood industry is expected to benefit from a new national cooperative research centre (CRC).

China: Auto Industry to Face Restraints (New York Times) - China announced measures to restrain the rapid expansion of its automobile industry, saying the sector could face a serious overcapacity problem if trends continued. The National Development and Reform Commission, the country?s top economic planner, called improving the industry?s structure an urgent task. Auto sales in China, the world?s second-largest auto market after the United States, jumped ...

Over Capacity in China's Booming Auto Industry Fuels Government Intervention (SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance) - The Chinese auto industry's double-digit growth is not necessarily a good thing for the Communist Party as it tries to balance growth with other concerns, while keeping the industry competitive.

Industry jobs to slow in 2007 (Haaretz Daily) - Manufacturing heads expect the industry to continue to grow next year but at a slower pace. The Manufactures Association president Shraga Brosh said yesterday that industry added 9,000 jobs in 2006 but would only add 6,800 next year to reach a total of 354,000 by the end of 2007.

Local life sciences industry is hiring (BizJournals) - The president of the Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute Inc. said he was pleasantly astounded by the preliminary results of an industry survey.

Industry group gives scientists the go-ahead for genetically engineered peanuts (USA Today) - A leading industry group has given scientists the go-ahead to build genetically engineered peanuts that could be safer, more nutritious and easier to grow than their conventional version. The work could lead to peanuts that yield more oil for biofuel production, need less rainfall and grow more efficiently, with built-in herbicide and pest resistance traits that have already been engineered into ...

Trucking industry braces for change (Detroit Free Press) - The trucking industry is not a big fan of change. The constantly changing price of fuel is a problem. The turnover rate for drivers is a problem. And now, the Environmental Protection Agency has new emission rules taking effect Jan. 1 that signify more change.

Report: Minneapolis Star Tribune Sale Bad for Industry (Mediaweek) - Analysts said the announced sale of the McClatchy Co.'s Minneapolis Star Tribune to a private investor group bodes badly for the newspaper industry.

Pa. looking for young dairy farmers to revive aging industry (WFMJ Youngstown) - HARRISBURG, Pa. The state has leased its first dairy barn as part of a wider effort to bring younger farmers into a dairy industry that is getting older and losing farms.

China sets more limits on hot auto industry (Detroit News) - BEIJING -- China announced curbs Tuesday on surging investment in its auto industry, extending controls already imposed in other fields in an effort to cool off an economic boom that Beijing worries could ignite a financial crisis.