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Canada wind industry grows amid opposition storm (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Canada's fledgling wind power industry, late off the global starting blocks, has stumbled on growing local resistance to the idea of massive turbines dotting the country's relatively unmarked landscape.

Police trace syndicates supplying sex industry (The Jakarta Post) - Jakarta Police chief Insp. Gen. Adang Firman on Friday said police would crack down on the organized syndicates that are trafficking women from overseas to work in the sex industry here.

Film pokes fun at cinema industry (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Japan's Takeshi Kitano pokes fun at himself, fellow film-makers and the cinema industry in his latest work, the surreal tale of a director on a quest to shoot the ultimate movie that everyone will love.

Industry wants obesity target approach (TVNZ) - The food industry says a Government report into obesity problems is basically a re-hash of what we already know. Parliament's Health Select Committee has released a number of proposals to tackle the problem including labelling systems, and stricter rules around junk food marketing.

Building the film industry from the ground up (Vietnam Net) - VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s nascent film industry has been given a shot in the arm by the US Ford Foundation, which is stumping up 350,000 USD for a new film studies course at the College of Social Sciences and Humanities in Hanoi.

Formula industry may have influenced ads (UPI) - Congress is scrutinizing the baby formula industry's intrusion in recent U.S. government efforts to promote the benefits of breast-feeding.

Housing industry affects auto dealers (The State) - The National Automobile Dealers Association has lowered its sales projections for 2007 by 2.4 percent, in part, because of the slumping housing industry. The association lowered its sales projections for 2007 to 16.1 million from 16.5 million. Many industry analysts have downgraded their sales expectations even more. The link between housing and auto sales is strong. Recent studies conducted by ...

Canadian financial services industry most vulnerable to subprime fallout: BMO (Canadian Business) - David Paddon August 31, 2007 - 6:29 p.m. TORONTO (CP) - Several sectors of the Canadian economy face a "relatively high risk" from the U.S. subprime mortgage saga, with certain segments of the financial services industry among the most vulnerable, according to a BMO Capital Markets report.

Wind industry official discuss development (The Daily American) - Listen to the podcast and hear... Why vertical axis turbines are not the standard. How the weak dollar and high steel prices have hurt the industry. Offshore wind for America? How white noise might soon reduce bat kills at turbine sites.

'Do not hike steel price': Industry (Indian Express via Yahoo! India News) - Apex Chamber of Commerce and Industry has resented the threat of the main steel producers to hike prices of steel in September. According to a statement issued here, the hot rolled coil prices are likely to be increased by Rs 500-1,000 per ton, with a repeat in October. "The producers are basing the hike on global prices. This is wrong. There are different prices in different parts of the globe, ...