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Colo. lawmakers taking aim at health insurance industry (BizJournals) - Having abandoned (or delayed) attempts to provide medical coverage and access to all Coloradans, state lawmakers are taking aim at insurance companies -- and it's keeping insurance industry lobbyists busy.

Housing industry backs affordability plan (News Interactive) - NEW housing affordability initiatives are a good start but will take some time to have a durable effect, the housing industry says.

Manufacturing industry 'holding up' in spite of slowing economy, says EEF (Independent) - Despite the credit crunch, manufacturing industry continues to record growth and companies in the sector remain optimistic about the future, according to the latest survey by the EEF, the engineering and manufacturers' organisation, and accountants Grant Thornton.

Study the Political, Economic, Social, Technological Aspects of China's Food Processing Industry (Centre Daily Times) - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c84542) has announced the addition of "Food Processing Industry in China - PEST Framework Analysis" to their offering.

Booming Nigerian film industry hurt by sex scandal (AFP via Yahoo! News) - Fury over a sex video in Muslim northern Nigeria has all but finished a flourishing local film industry that employed thousands of people, but was under scrutiny by clerics and officials.

Tough decade ahead: industry group (ABC via Yahoo!7 Finance) - New research released by the Australian Industry Group (AiG) is forecasting Australia's annual rate of growth will fall well below expectations over the next decade.

Philippine telecom industry to grow at modest pace-report (telecomasia.net) - (Xinhua via NewsEdge) The Philippines' telecommunications industry is projected to grow at a modest pace this year as traditional market is "approaching maturity," local television network GMA News quoted an international credit rating firm as saying.

Industry group sues China search engine (telecomasia.net) - (Associated Press via NewsEdge) China's top search engine, Baidu.com, has been sued by a music industry group in China over an alleged copyright violation, according to a statement released by the Music Copyright Society of China.

Granite Falls' Streblows on the cutting edge of industry (Advocate Tribune) - Riverdale Environmental Services, Inc. is definitely on the cutting edge of a new industry. The company takes waste wood, usually whole trees, grinds the wood - sizing down the material - to be able to be burned in power generators.

Industry unhappy over silence on STPI scheme (The Hindu) - March 2 The Budget has been seen as neutral on the information technology sector. The industry is unhappy over the silence on the extension of the Software Technology Parks exemption scheme as well as on measures to counter the rupee rise.