HAMILTON, Bermuda-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Sept. 28, 2005-CalciTech Ltd. (Ofex: CLK)(OTCBB: CLKTF)(Freiverkehr: XCH) today announced it has received formal notification of the granting by China of its patent regarding ‘Lime Treatment’. The patented process involves the use of industrial waste lime and other sources of low quality lime, and CO2 as raw materials for the production of high-end specialized synthetic calcium carbonate (SCC) products.

United Fiber System (UFS) Ltd., a Singapore listed forestry-based company, announced on Thursday that its local unit PT Mangium Anugerah Lestari (MAL) would invest US$45 million in a new plant in Kota Baru, South Kalimantan.

In a statement, UFS chief executive Kishore Dass said the plant would have a capacity to produce 700,000 tons of wood powder annually. The powder would be sold internationally at a price of $120 per ton.

Seminar Mapeki, 3 Hari Kupas 180 Makalah

SAMARINDA – Ratusan peneliti dari berbagai negara mulai besok (3/9) akan berkumpul di Tenggarong, Kutai Kartanegara (Kukar). Mereka akan mengikuti seminar tentang prospek dan tantangan pengembangan teknologi pemanfaatan hasil hutan di Indonesia, yang digelar kerjasama Masyarakat Peneliti Kayu Indonesia (Mapeki), Fahutan Unmul dengan Pemkab Kukar. Seminar yang digelar sampai 5 September tersebut akan berlangsung di Hotel Singgasana, Tenggarong.

WHO, August 21, 2005 (STAR) (AP) The haze that has shrouded parts of Southeast Asia this month is just one visible element of a much larger problem that kills hundreds of thousands of people in the region every year, the World Health Organization said.

INDONESIA, berdasarkan estimasi potensi vegetasi, yaitu luas kawasan yang kemungkinan tertutup berbagai tipe hutan dengan mempertimbangkan kondisi iklim dan lingkungannya, hampir seluruh wilayah adalah hutan. Paling tidak, sampai tahun 1950, ketika Dinas Kehutanan Indonesia menerbitkan peta vegetasi, terlihat bahwa 84% luas daratan tertutup hutan primer-hutan hujan primer, hutan lindung, hutan rawa, dan hutan rimba- hutan sekunder, serta perkebunan teh, kopi, dan karet.

The alleviation of poverty using forest services and products was the focus of a recent conference in Canberra. The problem these days is finding a balance between the competing demands for forest products and services and the ability of natural and plantation forests to supply them. Joining Geraldine Coutts on the mat this Monday is guest Dr Brian Belcher, Centre for International Forestry Research. http://www.abc.net.au/ra/pacbeat/onthemat/stories/s1441694.htm

Transcript: Last week’s television pictures of a smog-shrouded Kuala Lumpur can’t have done much for Malaysia’s tourism industry, which likes to project an image of clear skies and a pristine natural environment. But although the media reports largely depicted Malaysia as an innocent victim of events in neighbouring Indonesia, the reality is a little more complicated. For while Malaysia coughs from the haze thrown off by burning Indonesian forests, Malaysian loggers are slashing away at forests in Papua New Guinea. Those regional ironies were highlighted last week by the director general of the Centre for International Forestry Research, Dr David Kaimowitz . . . .

An international forest expert says five Malaysian companies are taking most of Papua New Guinea’s revenue from logging, but showing no interest in PNG’s long-term interests. The director-general of the Centre for International Forestry Research, David Kaimowitz, says the Malaysian firms are taking almost all the logging money which should go to the PNG Government or villagers.