Across Asia: Indonesia

Live chicken trade ban

Indonesia will ban the trade of live chickens in the capital in 2010 to sharpen the fight against bird flu in world's hardest-hit nation, a livestock official said yesterday.

Poultry will have to be killed at government-licensed slaughterhouses outside Jakarta before being transported to the market, Edy Setiarto said, adding that authorities would need two years to prepare regulations and business owners for the changes.