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Industry still needs Barbaro (USATODAY.com via Yahoo! News) - Inspiring Kentucky Derby champion Barbaro may still provide a huge lift to Thoroughbred racing despite his career-ending injuries. With guarded optimism surrounding his recovery from potentially lifesaving surgery to repair extensive damage to his right hind leg, excitement within the breeding industry was renewed Monday.

Cannes film market proves buoyant for industry (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - While stars like Tom Hanks and Penelope Cruz grabbed the limelight on the red carpet at the Cannes film festival this week, deal-making for global movie rights proved fast and furious, industry players said.

WA resources industry to grow by $10b (Sydney Morning Herald) - Western Australia's resources industry will grow by a further $10 billion in the next decade on the back of high commodity prices and expanded production, an industry body said.

Hedge fund grandee sounds 'death knell' for the industry (Times Online) - CRISPIN ODEY, one of the grandees of the London hedge fund world, said yesterday that the industry could be doomed, likening it to the disaster that was the Lloyd’s of London insurance market in the 1980s.

WA resources industry to grow by $10b (AAP via Yahoo!7 News) - Western Australia's resources industry will grow by a further $10 billion in the next decade on the back of high commodity prices, an industry body says.

Opryland names director of travel industry sales (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center has hired Jennifer Powers as director of travel industry sales.

Japan's service industry index rises to highest level in FY 2005 (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News) - _ Japan's service industry activity index rose 2.3 percent in fiscal 2005 from the previous year, growing for the seventh straight year and hitting its highest level since comparable data became available in 1988, the government said Wednesday.

Gaylord Opryland names director of travel industry sales (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center has hired Jennifer Powers as director of travel industry sales Tuesday.

Impending Demise of Garment Industry? (News From Bangladesh) - As an ex-patriot from Bangladesh living in USA I am just ashamed to watch on NTV for last few days about the disturbances in multiple garment industries from Gazipur to Savar .The more disturbing for us to watch is the degradation of human dignity .Garment industry is not only the huge earner of foreign currency for a poor country like Bangladesh, but it is also a pride for us when we see that

Minister of State for Industry meets Peres (Hindustan Times) - Minister of State for Industry Ashwini Kumar, who is currently in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt to attend the World Economic Forum's Regional meeting met Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres and discussed the future of Indo-Israeli economic relations.