Category :News This Week

The Commercial Court in Ireland is due on April 13 to begin hearing arguments in JTI Ireland’s lawsuit against the State, Attorney General Máire Whelan and Health Minister Leo Varadkar, seeking to halt the Read More

Japan Tobacco’s (JT) domestic cigarette sales volume during March, at 8.9 billion, was down by 29.3 percent on that of March 2014, 12.7 billion, according to preliminary figures issued by the company today. The March 2014 figure was up Read More

The deadline for the submission of posters to be displayed at this year’s Global Forum on Nicotine has been extended until April 15. The Forum is due to be held at the Marriott Hotel in Read More

SACIMEM, Imperial Tobacco’s subsidiary in Madagascar, has helped renovate the airport at Antsirabe in an effort aimed at boosting the local economy. ‘Antsirabe is the third largest city in the country but its local Read More

Philip Morris International Inc. is due to host a live audio webcast at www.pmi.com/webcasts starting at 09.00 Eastern Time on April 16 to discuss its 2015 first-quarter results, which will be issued about 07:00 the same Read More

The Altria Group is due to host a live audio webcast starting at 09.00 Eastern Time on April 23 to discuss its 2015 first-quarter business results. The webcast can be accessed at www.altria.com. Altria will issue Read More

South Korea’s Ministry of Health plans to set up its own research center dedicated to studying the effects of smoking on health, according to a story in The Korea Times. The ministry said yesterday Read More

Salary increases for the employees of two Maldives broadcasters are to be linked to whether or not the employees are smokers. And, no, the smokers aren’t going to get more than the non-smokers. The Read More

Tobacco product excise revenue in Nepal during the first eight months of the current fiscal year (16 July-15 July) fell by about 5.5 percent, and the assumption is that the drop is partly down to the imposition Read More

Municipal authorities in the Oman capital of Muscat are trying to get shisha café owners to abide by the opening hours set for them, which would mean their closing at midnight, according to a story Read More