News from elsewhere on the web (06 May 2011)

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SBR under pressure on China slowdown ICIS (London)

Spot rubber prices declineIndia Infoline (India)

Natural rubber prices dip 1.7 percent in a week on improved supplies Business Standard (India)

Koppers Holdings Q1 Profit Rises, But Misses Street - Update RTT News (South Africa)

Goodyear India: Running on MoneyLife (India)

Century Enka's NTCF capacity rises to 29500 tons Equity Bulls (India)

Ceat plans Rs1,500-crore capex in FY'12; to pump up export volume news Domain-B (India)

Ceat earmarks Rs 1.5 bn capex in FY12; stock up Economic Times (India)

Sanjiv Goenka ropes in Law & Kenneth to create corporate identity for his share of RPG Group Economic Times (India)

Ignite Mudra bags Govind Rubber Limited mandate Campaign India (India)

Ceat to hike tyre prices by month-end The Hindu Business Line (India)

Engineering a greener, safer latex (Vytex) SmartPlanet (US - Georgia)

Ivory Coast: Place your bets FT Blog (UK / Cote d'Ivoire)

Firms invest US$1.8 billion overseas in four months VoV News (Vietnam)

Malaysian Exports Rise To New High In March RTT News (Malaysia)

EPF to buy Rubber Research Institute land for RM3bil The Star (Malaysia)

'US dumps cars on Chinese market' Xinhua (China)

BYD April car sales down 11 percent Y-O-Y CE.cn (China)

How to build a 1,000mph car (butadiene rocket fuel) Economist (UK)

Rubber hits the road: Mountain of tyres mysteriously appears behind restaurant BND.com (US - Connecticut)

New tyre technology (Goodyear F1 Asymmetric) shortens braking distances Creamer's engineering News (South Africa)

Q&A with Pirelli's Hembrey Planet F1 (Turkey)

A Green Economy Takes Root in Rio de Janeiro Huffington Post (US / Brazil)

Supplier of celeb latex costumes sues competitor Associated Press (US - California)