News from elsewhere on the web 10/Apr/07

(17 items) London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers might be interested to read these news stories.

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Two tire rubber makers fined 5.6 bln won (€4.5 million) for price collusion Yonhap News (Korea)

Michelin cutting new hire pay by Can$3/hour Nova Scotia Biz Journal (Canada)

The program of the industrial rubber subcommittee under consideration. AK&M (Russia)

'Longest conveyor belt' launched BBC (UK)

Tyre [recycling] plant worker's arm torn off Glasgow Evening Times (UK - Scotland)

Asahi Kasei plans to build facility in Mideast for acrylonitrile Yarn, Fibre exchange (India / Japan)

Pirelli: We constantly have expats Ziarul Financiar (Romania)

Next rubber capital in the making The Hindu Business Line (India)

Sri Lanka records 109 million kg of rubber production in 2006 Colombo Pages (Sri Lanka)

Unidentified People Torch Army Rubber Plantations Narinjara (Burma / Myanmar)

Centre considers setting up second rubber park in Kerala Financial Express (India)

Paris court dismisses Michelin request [on WRC claim] eems (France / UK)

Wanxiang subsidiary to buy Ford plant China Daily (China)

China's exports of auto products soar 50% in first two months Xinhua (China)

Chery becomes first Chinese brand to top monthly car sales list China Daily (China)

Home-made car sales surge 22% Xinhua (China)

China plans 12 highways to Central Asia Reuters (China)