1. BHP recently opened an office in Antwerp, a major diamond trading center. 2. Exactly how such a marketing regime would be implemented in various African nations and European diamond centers is undecided, officials say. 3. The Kabila government said it would not allow the U.N. team to visit some key cities, including the diamond center of Mbuji-Mayi. 4. Wall clocks displayed the time in Mumbai, Tel Aviv, Antwerp, Johannesburg and Tokyo, all major diamond centers. 5. Rebel commanders said they are advancing on the southern diamond center of Mbuji-Mayi and on Lubumbashi, the capital of mineral-rich Katanga Province. 6. Antwerp is a major diamond center. 7. Belgium, a major world diamond center, had been particularly lax in implementing the U.N. embargo, the report said. 8. Congolese rebels advance on southern diamond center. 9. ICFTU wants the diamond industry to allocate money for schools in these areas to provide an alternative to working in the diamond processing centers. 10. In the diamond trading center of Surat police fired at mobs in the Limbayat neighborhood on Monday, but there were no reports of casualties. |