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Mumbai to host Rubber Expo 2005 Hindu Business Line (India)

New Foreign Car Sales Jumped 80% in 2004Moscow Times (Russia)

Polluted air [1.3 butadiene] is blamed for most childhood cancers The Times (UK)

Tire Experts Steer Drivers Toward Nitrogen WCCO (US)

Auto supplier Paulstra to close Ithaca plant Associated press ( Via Akron Beacon Journal)

120 losing jobs as [Paulstra] plant closes SAGINAW NEWS (US)

Viet Nam set to plant 10,000ha of rubber trees in Laos Vietnam news Agency (Vietnem)

Firms claw back to pre-quake [Great Hanshin 'quake of 1995] levels Asahi Shimbun (Japan)

Mexican workers reopen shuttered Continental tire plant as cooperative Associated Press

Natural rubber output declined 6.8% last November The Star (Malaysia)