Diamonds

YIWU, China - For China's low-cost jewelry makers, it was an open trade secret: The metal cadmium is shiny, strong and malleable at low temperatures, regardless of its health hazards.

ON BOARD SPECIAL AIRCRAFT - India's foray into Africa will be powered by the private sector and would generate local employment instead of import of workforce, Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari said white returning from a three-nation southern African trip.

ON BOARD SPECIAL AIRCRAFT - Faced with a widening Chinese footprint in Africa, the Indian private sector will be at the forefront of India's foray into that continent and generate local employment rather than import workforce, Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari said.

LUSAKA - Botswana's diamonds are of "direct interest" to India, Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari said as he began his three-nation Africa tour Tuesday.