Shark trade restriction bid fails
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Attempts to restrict trade in two threatened shark species fail at a conference on endangered species.
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Rio Tintoâs $38.1 billion bid exceeds a $28 billion offer from Alcoa Inc. that Alcanâs board roundly rejected.
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MELBOURNE - Australian nickel and copper miner WMC Resources rejected aA$7,4bn takeover bid from Xstrata, but left the door open for a higher offer, which sent its shares soaring.
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Japan's efforts to have restrictions lifted on the trade in whalemeat are rebuffed at an international meeting.
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Hong Kong&#39;s highest court rejected the government&#39;s request that a 67-year-old tenant be given hours instead of weeks to appeal the sale of a $2.7 billion property trust, putting its Dec. 20 trading debut in doubt.
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Trade in great white sharks would be restricted under a proposal adopted at a UN wildlife conference today, despite criticism that there is little evidence suggesting the fearsome ocean predators are threatened by commercial trade.
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Ecuador's president overturned a ban on the sale of shark fins, which are popular in Asia, but stipulated they can only be sold if the sharks are caught by fishermen accidentally.
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You're just not 'trying hard enough' to stick to the law The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has ruled against the US in an online gambling dispute with the Caribbean island of Antigua and Barbuda. The US is breaking international trade rules, it is expected to say.â¦
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BEIJING - A Chinese company that once tried to sell land on the Moon has lost an appeal against a court ruling that stopped it from selling bags of &quot;World Cup air,&quot; state media reported Wednesday.
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The trade body representing the vast majority of Britain&#39;s casinos on Monday lost its High Court challenge over government plans to shake-up the country&#39;s gambling industry.
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The London Stock Exchange has rejected a Â£1.35bn offer from German market Deutsche Boerse, but says fresh talks are possible.
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TORONTO -- The NHL rejected last week&#39;s proposal by the players&#39; association and then had its own counteroffer turned down Tuesday during a 3Â½-hour negotiating session.
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The New Zealand High Court has declined an appeal by Air New Zealand and Qantas against the Commerce Commission&#39;s original decision to disallow the two airlines&#39; application to form a strategic alliance.
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Genzyme Corp. suffered an unaccustomed defeat yesterday when shareholders in Bioenvision Inc. , a small New York cancer-drug developer, blocked a $350 million takeover bid by refusing to sell their stock to the Cambridge biotechnology giant.
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Yahoo rejects a takeover bid of more than $40bn from computer software giant Microsoft saying it is too low.
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The government has temporarily decided against reducing or banning imports of prized beluga caviar, despite having agreed to list the beluga sturgeon six months ago as a species whose survival is considered threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
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Maryland's tidal fishery regulators lost a bid to have the state's controversial spring trophy rockfish season freed from special federal oversight yesterday. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission by a 7-6 vote rejected a proposal to end the system.