ECUADOR

KENYA

ORDERS IGNORED

The vanilla's meeting

High prices and illegal shipments of inferior quality have badly affected Madagascar's status as premier vanilla producer.

Thais go on logging, despite ban

A UN ban on export of hardwood from Cambodia notwithstanding, Thai loggers continue to exploit loopholes and carry wood across the border.

Absurd charge

Waste exporters indicated

Bush sells wheat

Loggers, environmentalists at loggerheads

By lifting a ban raw wood export and levying a huge tax on it instead, officials in Jakarta have come under fire from both loggers and …

COTTON SUCCESS

SOUTH AFRICA

ZIMBABWE

JUTE PREVAILS

Biting into bytes

INDONESIA

PAKISTAN RICE EXPORTS

THAILAND

Written in stone

UK stone importers not to buy marble sourced from tiger habitats

Barrier up on skirts

Troubled tycoon

Tax the rich and help the poor survive

US firm uses new software to woo Japanese market

Microsoft Corp of USA has launched a Japanese version of the Windows 3.1 software package, which is expected to grab for it control of Japan's …

Aid for alleviation

Brushing aside environmental costs

Falling trade