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Radio Industry to Roll Out Digital Radio (Washington Post) - NEW YORK -- The radio industry, in a move to take on growing competition from satellite radio, iPods and the Internet, has formed an alliance to step up the rollout of digital radio.

Trade and Industry Minister to attend ASEAN Economic Ministers' Meeting in KL (Channel News Asia via Yahoo! Asia News) - SINGAPORE : Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang will be in Kuala Lumpur from December 8 to 10 to attend the ASEAN Economic Ministers' Meeting in the run-up to the 11th ASEAN Summit.

Red meat industry is the loser as QMS in-fighting continues (The Scotsman via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance) - FOR the main stakeholders in a small industry, Scotland's red meat producers and processors manage to make life difficult for themselves. To put some things in context, perhaps calling it small is relative and a little uncharitable. Slaughtering and primary processing of cattle, sheep and pigs in Scotland has an estimated annual turnover of about £700 million and provides direct employment for

Wool industry to benefit from pesticide safety push (ABC via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News) - New safety recommendations will be introduced for a range of pesticides commonly used in the wool industry.

Dow CEO Testifies Before House Appropriations Joint Sub-Committee on Impact of U.S. Natural Gas Crisis on Industry (ChemPoint) - Midland, November 09, 2005 -- Andrew Liveris, president and chief executive officer of The Dow Chemical Company, testified today during a House Appropriations joint sub-committee hearing in Washington, D.C. on the impact of high and volatile U.S. natural gas prices on the nation's energy consumers, particularly the chemical industry.

Oil industry targets EU climate policy (Guardian Unlimited) - Lobbyists funded by the US oil industry have launched a campaign in Europe aimed at derailing efforts to tackle greenhouse gas pollution and climate change.

U.S. radio industry to promote digital radio (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Several top U.S. radio companies on Tuesday announced an industry alliance to jointly promote new high definition radio services, executives said, as competition from digital music players and satellite radio encroach on their turf on the car dashboard.

Call for aquaculture industry law changes (ABC via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News) - The chairman of a legislative review into Western Australia's aquaculture industry says the industry needs more funds if it is to grow.

Mideast travel industry seen growing to $193b by 2014 (Khaleej Times) - DUBAI — The Middle East travel and tourism industry, which is estimated to have generated $108.5 billion of economic activity in 2004, is expected to grow to $193 billion by 2014. Demand for travel and tourism is expected to grow by 3.9 per cent per annum in real terms between 2005 and 2014, according to industry sources.

Industry-1 Minister receives Chinese guests (The New Light of Myanmar) - YANGON, 7 Dec — Minister for Industry-1 U Aung Thaung received Chairman of Shanghai D&H Industry Co Ltd of the People’s Republic of China Mr Jianyi Du and party at the ministry yesterday evening and discussed the matters related to the production of three-wheeled cycles.