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UAE firm a player in industry increasingly run by foreigners (USA Today) - The United Arab Emirates firm that has a deal to operate terminals at six U.S. port cities is a major player in an industry increasingly controlled by foreign companies.

Bird flu hits Egypt's multi-billion-dollar poultry industry (AFP via Yahoo! News) - The sudden outbreak of avian influenza in Egypt has dealt a huge blow to the poultry industry, in a country which consumes 800 million birds a year and exports to the entire region.

Hong Kong hopes to revive ailing film industry (AFP via Yahoo! News) - Hong Kong film workers joined forces to promote the city's largest entertainment event hoping to revive its ailing movie industry.

US$1.1 BLN Investment Needed for Vietnam's Pulp Industry by 2010 (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Asia News) - HANOI, Feb 22 Asia Pulse - Vietnam's paper industry has reckoned an investment of US$1.1 billion will be needed for a development plan of pulp production in the next five years.

MKTG Services Hires Industry Veteran, Cheryl Jordan (The Auto Channel) - NEWTOWN, Penn., Feb. 21, 2006 -- MKTG Services, a leading data solutions provider for the direct marketing industry, announces the appointment of Cheryl Jordan as Senior Product Manager to its growing compiled division.

Wine industry at crossroads - seeks government support (South African Wine News) - Nine years after the deregulation of the South African wine industry, Government support is needed to put the industry in a winning position in terms of global competitiveness and sustained local performance.

Sunset industry (The Star Online) - TANTALUM prospecting is fast becoming a sunset industry with about 50,000 metric tonnes of tin slag containing the mineral believed to be still buried in the country.

Virginia Tech Officials Want to Bring Hay Industry Back to Suffolk (WAVY 10) - (AP) - In an area better known for its peanuts, researchers are trying to make more hay. Part of the reason is the big money in the equine industry, which already is well established in Virginia.

Region needs venture capital industry: BMA (Khaleej Times) - MANAMA — There is an urgent need for a vibrant venture capital (VC) industry to serve the region, the Governor of the Bahrain Monetary Agency (BMA), Rasheed Al Maraj, said here yesterday while addressing a VC and private equity conference being held here under the patronage of the Kingdom's Prime Minister Shaikh Khalifa bin Sulman Al Khalifa.

UN ‘green’ initiative: world construction industry (Scoop.co.nz) - Together with some of the biggest names in the multi-billion dollar building and construction sector, the United Nations environmental agency today launched a new international effort to ‘green’ the industry, from curbing global warming gas emissions to preventing the plundering of pristine beaches for sand.