KUALA LUMPUR, June 21 (Bernama) --A robust performance can be expected from the timber industry this year after Malaysia and the European Union signed a voluntary partnership agreement on forest law governance, enforcement and trade, Plantation Industries and Commodities Deputy Minister Datuk Anifah Aman said Thursday. Govt Sees Better Performance By The Timber Industry This Year :: Bernama.com Bernama.com Business. KUALA LUMPUR, June 21 (Bernama) --A robust performance can be expected...

Designed to allow some logging, the forest plan has been bitterly contested for years by the timber industry and industry-dependent rural communities. Logging companies say the reduction would allow them access to trees they are entitled to under the forest plan, which some experts say has not worked out as was intended. But critics of the proposal say it is part of a broad strategy by the timber industry and a sympathetic Bush administration to undermine protection of old-growth forests...

In May, rising prices for civilian aircraft, transformers and power regulators, both agricultural and mining machinery and equipment, and for welding machines and equipment slightly outweighed falling prices for electronic computers, communication and related equipment, passenger cars, X-ray and electromedical equipment, and light motor trucks. Over the same period, the index for finished consumer foods increased 8.5 percent, prices for finished energy goods rose 7.2 percent, and the index...

Environmentalists say timber thieves strip Bangladeshi forests of millions of dollars worth of trees each year, sometimes in connivance with forestry officials. DHAKA: The head conservationist at the world s largest mangrove forest, the Sunderbans, has been arrested as part of a major anti-corruption crackdown by the Bangladeshi government, police said yesterday. Shaikh Mizanur Rahman, who stands accused of illegally selling timber and other forest resources, was detained during a raid...

Chief Economist Craig Wright says after a robust decade, the vital softwood lumber industry may be at a turning point, with weaker softwood prices and sawn lumber production down almost nine per cent in the past year. and says the province s forest sector, in particular, is cooling off as the U. The RBC Economics provincial outlook assesses each province according to economic, employment and personal income growth, unemployment rates, retail sales, housing starts and the Consumer Price...

National Scene: Lumber industry restructured, but profitable Post a comment EDITED BY STAFF, TRANSCONTINENTAL MEDIA The Nova Scotia Business Journal A Statistics Canada report released on Thursday states that Canada's lumber industry has undergone extensive restructuring, and has remained profitable despite the impact of various trade and economic pressures during recent years. National Scene: Lumber industry restructured, but profitable Post a comment EDITED BY STAFF, TRANSCONTINENTAL...