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ALP urged to offer timber industry job assurances (ABC via Yahoo!7 Finance) - Timber Communities Australia is calling on the federal Labor Party to promise to maintain forest resources for the timber industry.

Insurance industry warily keeps watch on Legislature (BizJournals) - Insurance brokers are nervously eyeing a flood of bills in the Oregon state Legislature that propose to regulate, or in some cases, fundamentally alter the way the industry works.

Japan's bar industry still lures foreign women (AFP via Yahoo! News) - Filipina hostess Jun panicked when she heard British bar worker Lucie Blackman had been killed and mutilated in a horrific attack that sent shockwaves through famously safe Tokyo's bar industry.

Property industry attacks free offer on home packs (Financial Times) - Plans by an estate agent and a supermarket to offer free home information packs (Hips) have been dismissed by industry bodies as risky and premature in the light of uncertainty over how much the packs will cost.

Oil and gas industry flourishing (The Star Online) - ANALYSTS see prosperous times ahead for the oil and gas (O&G) industry.

Industry: Relax wildlife rules (Casper Star-Tribune) - BILLINGS, Mont. -- Coal-bed methane industry representatives on Thursday asked federal regulators to loosen wildlife restrictions that shut down much of the industry's operations in Wyoming's Powder River Basin this spring.

Industry, conservationists slam ALP's forestry policy (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - The ALP's plans for Tasmania's forestry industry have been condemned by the industry and conservationists but accepted by the powerful forestry union.

Medicos on drugs industry payroll: survey (The Age) - The spotlight is again thrown on the pharmaceutical industry's influence over prescribing habits.

Medicos on drugs industry payroll, survey finds (The Age) - One in four doctors has admitted to doing paid work for a drug company, throwing the spotlight again on the pharmaceutical industry's influence over prescribing habits.

Study says beer industry pumps millions into W.Va. economy (The Huntington Herald-Dispatch) - America's beer industry — made up of brewers, beer importers, beer distributors, brewer suppliers and retailers — directly and indirectly contributes $560.67 million annually to West Virginia's economy, according to a new economic impact study.