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Papa John's recognized by industry media (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - PizzaMarketplace.com , a news Web site for the pizza industry, has named Papa John's International Inc. its "Chain of the Year" for 2006.

Batik fest a boost for industry (New Straits Times) - KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s batik industry was given an added boost with the launch of the Malaysia Batik Festival 2006 and Kuala Lumpur International Batik Convention and Exhibition 2007 yesterday.

Industry 'paid top cancer expert' (BBC News) - A top scientist was paid by a chemicals firm while investigating cancer risks in chemical industry, it emerges.

Botswana seeks investments from Indian pharma industry (PharmaBiz) - The Republic of Botswana is seeking investments from Indian pharmaceuticals industry. India and Botswana have been witnessing a steady growth in trade and services between the two countries.

'Red-letter day for Welsh steel industry' (icWales) - A LANDMARK event in the British steel industry took place in Cardiff yesterday with the opening of an £80m steel melt shop at Celsa UK's Tremorfa complex.

Mining industry worried about Democrat-controlled Congres (Las Vegas Sun) - RENO, Nev. (AP) - The new Democrat-controlled Congress will be largely hostile to the U.S. mining industry on everything from taxes to environmental regulation, a top industry lobbyist warned Friday.

Mining industry worried about Democrat-controlled Congress (KESQ) - RENO, Nev. One of their top lobbyists is warning the U-S mining industry that the new Democrat-controlled Congress will be largely hostile to their views on everything from taxes to environmental regulation.

Wine Institute: California industry pumps $103B into U.S. economy (East Bay Business Times) - The California wine industry pumps $51.8 billion in the Golden State's economy, and $103 billion into the U.S. economy, including wine and wine-grape sales, jobs generated, wine tourism, state and federal taxes and other impacts, according to a report released Thursday.

No cork on wine growth / Industry study cites $51.8 billion impact on state's economy (San Francisco Chronicle) - California's wine industry has notched double-digit growth in revenue, exports, payroll and taxes paid to state and national coffers since the industry was last surveyed four years ago, according to a report released Thursday by the advocacy organization Wine...

Microsoft Wins Industry Standard Status for Office (Slashdot) - everphilski writes "The International Herald-Tribune reports that Microsoft has won industry standard status for Office. EMCA International, a group of hardware and software makers based in Geneva, approved the MS file formats with only one dissenting vote - IBM. IBM backs the OpenDocument standard, which was approved by the ISO in May of this year." From the article: "Bob Sutor, IBM's vice