This site has been designed to be accessible to every type of web browser, but your browser does not appear to support Stylesheets or established web standards. Malawi, located in the southeast of Africa, is the continent's biggest producer of burley tobacco, a low grade of the crop, and Africa's second-largest tea producer, after Kenya. Paladin started its first uranium production, at the Langer Heinrich mine in Namibia, earlier this year, and that project is scheduled for expansion late...

Industrial production, excluding energy, agricultural and food industries, was up 1. Further, oil's sharp retreat following the removal of the overhang of the detention of British sailors could drag down heavy weighted oil stocks. markets, which opened after a long weekend on Monday, meandered to a mixed close, as a warning from Advanced Micro Devices and trepidation ahead of earnings took much of the sheen out of the healthy March employment report and oil's slide. M&A activity served as...

It's time the tobacco industry listens to us when we demand that it stops using manipulative tactics to get us hooked on its products. Brampton - Wearing white masks, dressed in black and holding banners with disturbing statistics about smoking, Peel's Youth Action Alliances (YAAs), known as extinguish, are protesting tobacco industry tactics targeting youth. extinguish is made up of 14 youth from across Peel who define themselves as a youth-driven coalition exposing the deception of the...

JTI Senta Director Tamer Tetsirlioglu said the construction of a new production hall and the installment of production apparatus were completed, with new storage houses left to be finished by the end of 2007. He said that ever since JTI took over Senta tobacco plant, it took up 50 employees previously trained in Russia and Romania, adding the company had plans to employ and train additional 30 workers. JTI Senta annual production capacity stands at five billion cigarettes, which equals...

The archives of the tobacco companies contain thousands of incriminating documents showing how cigarette makers knew of the addictive nature of cigarettes, and the dangerous side effects of smoking, but nevertheless concealed this information from the public and continued to market their products to minority youth, even those well below the age of consent. The archives of the tobacco companies contain thousands of incriminating documents showing how cigarette makers knew of the addictive...