News from elsewhere on the web (20 August 2008)

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Ruia gears up for tyre plant in Assam (truck and OTR) The Telegraph (India)

Dunlop plans Rs 450cr (euro 70 million) (truck) tyre plant Times of India (India)

Ruia to set up OTR plant in Assam The Hindu (India)

Tyre industry hit hard by rising input costs: Ruia Financial Express (India)

New Dunlop factories in Assam, Bengal Live Mint (India)

Turkish trade unions oversee sackings of tyre workers World Socialist Web Site (Turkey)

State investment agency looks for alternative sites for Apollo Tyres plant MTI (Hungary)

Toyo Tire to break ground on expansion Rome News-Tribune (US - Georgia)

Synthetic turf study said to be dangerously deceptive Norwalk plus (US - Connecticut)

Cooper Tire Starts to Get a Grip Zacks stocks (US)

Continental Begins Talks on Schaeffler Takeover Offer Bloomberg (Germany)

AED8.8 trillion real estate projects under way as rubber demand up Gulf Weekly (Bahrain)

Automotive: Global light vehicle industry faces total overhaul Modern Plastics (US - Ohio)

Falcon Tyres plans another hike in prices The Hindu Business Line (India)

Growth of two-wheeler industry to slide: Hero Honda V-P The Hindu Business Line (India)

China imports more motor vehicles in 1st half Xinhua (China)

Volkswagen: An excellent corporate citizen in China China Daily (China)

Conveyor belt horror at Imerys UK local press (UK Cornwall)

Trojan(R) Condoms and Rolling Stone Evolve America with Bill Maher at the Democratic National Convention StreetIndsider (US - New Jersey)

"Bigfoot" was rubber gorilla costume Reuters (US - California)