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Katrina spawns cottage industry (AP via Yahoo! News) - Hurricane Katrina has spawned a real cottage industry, catering to the tens of thousands of families still crammed in government-issued trailers 10 months after the storm.

Music industry prepares lawsuit against Yahoo China (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - The world's biggest music companies are preparing a lawsuit against Yahoo China for copyright infringement as part of the industry's efforts to crack down on piracy.

Katrina Spawns Cottage Industry (KiplingerForecasts.com) - (AP) OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. Hurricane Katrina has spawned a real cottage industry, catering to the tens of thousands of families still crammed in government-issued trailers 10 months after the storm.

S.Korea seen holding rates in industry group poll (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News) - SEOUL, July 5 (Reuters) - Most debt market participants in South Korea expected the central bank would leave interest rates steady this week, an industry group's survey showed on Wednesday.

MexEEdev Promotes Development of Mexico High Tech Industry; Freescale Looks to Developer Conference for Next Wave of (The Auto Channel) - GUADALAJARA, Mexico--July 3, 2006--Mexico's engineers and technologists are at the heart of a burgeoning Mexican tech industry. To help foster their development, Freescale Semiconductor will sponsor MexEEdev, Mexico Electronics & Embedded Developers Forum, the premier developer's conference slated for October in Guadalajara.

French industry minister cautious on Renault-GM (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - France's Industry Minister on Tuesday expressed "enormous caution" over any future tie-up between carmakers Renault and General Motors .

Governments boost province's video-game industry (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News) - The federal, provincial and municipal governments are pumping $350,000 into a new video-game development studio in Winnipeg in the hopes of sparking a new growth industry.

CHATS makes finals of top industry awards (Scoop.co.nz) - Reaching the finals of a top hospitality industry training competition confirms the status of Manukau Institute of Technology’s School of Catering and Hospitality Studies (CHATS), as a leading provider of hospitality education in New Zealand.

Blow to china clay industry as 800 jobs are lost (Times Online) - IMERYS, one of the world’s biggest china clay producers, has become the latest French conglomerate to wield the axe over its British workforce. An expected 800 jobs will be lost at Imerys’s operations in Cornwall and Devon — a severe blow to the local industry.

Fund industry's assets swell (Tiscali) - LONDON (Reuters) - Assets run by the UK’s investment management industry had swelled to more than 3 trillion pounds at the end of 2005, the Investment Management Association (IMA) said on Tuesday.