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GLOBAL: WTO promises on higher education liberalisation shelved by talks collapse
By Keith Nuthall
Plans to sweep away some restrictions preventing private universities and higher education service providers from teaching, researching and examining in foreign countries have been put on ice at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
This follows the collapse of negotiations at the July ministerial meeting of the WTO IN Geneva, Switzerland, which had lasted 10 days.…
SATYAM SUSPECTS IN LIE DETECTOR INTERROGATION
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA
THE KEY accused suspects in India’s US$1 billion-plus Satyam Computer Services fraud ex-chairman Ramalinga Raju along with his brother Rama Raju and former CFO Vadlamani Srinivas have been ordered to undergo lie-detector and brain-mapping tests by a local court in Hyderabad.…
DOHA TALKS COLLAPSE AFTER NINE DAY MARATHON NEGOTIATIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round negotiations appear to have broken down after nine days of tough, but ultimately fruitless negotiations, WTO officials told just-food.com. Diplomats were at 6.30pm GMT filing into a meeting of the WTO trade negotiations committee, expected to decide what happens next.…
NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA COSMETICS DEMAND BLENDING INTO A REGIONAL AUSTRALASIAN MARKET
BY KARRYN CARTELLE
SEPARATED by a short plane ride across the Tasman Sea, Australia and New Zealand are clearly two distinct countries – in the physical sense – but when it comes to the cosmetics industry in these neighbouring lands it is clear that things are merging into one.…
EUROPE: Poor links between EU researchers and business holding back commecial innovation
By Alan Osborn
The European Union (EU) will have to achieve much greater progress in bridging the gap between research and industry if it is to make a success of its Lisbon Strategy for making the EU the world’s most competitive economy by 2010, a conference on Innovating for Competitiveness in ICT (information and communication technologies) was told in Brussels last week (May 28).…
GLOBAL: Project unlocking the sun's energy secrets will be major research funding source
By Keith Nuthall
Research funding for a global project that seeks to harness the thermodynamics of the stars to create a sustainable and safe nuclear fusion reactor is starting to be released. A consortium of 14 research teams from across Europe has been formed to create a computer simulation of the international ITER fusion reactor, to model the technology required to operate it safely.…
METHANE RECOVERY PROJECTS BOOMING WORLDWIDE
BY MARK ROWE
ONE of the first responses to concerns about climate change involved the search to sequester carbon, a component of the major greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide. Increasingly, efforts are focussing on how to deal with another greenhouse gas, methane.…
WTO MEMBER STATES LOOK TO MEDIATION TO AVOID LEGAL DISPUTES OVER FOOD HEALTH RULES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) governments will try mediation to resolve disagreements over food health standards, avoiding referrals to protracted and sometimes fruitless formal disputes proceedings. They have agreed to use the chair of the WTO sanitary and phytosanitary measures committee as an honest broker.…
BOOMING INDIAN PAINT AND COATING SECTOR STRUGGLES TO DEAL WITH SUDDEN INGREDIENT PRICE RISES
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi
THE SUDDEN and phenomenal rise in the cost of raw materials over the past year for the US$2.6 billion Indian paint and coating industry has made business conditions tough for this formerly thriving sector. It is unlikely sustain the 18% growth rate achieved last year.…
LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES STRUGGLE TO COPE WITH OIL PRICE RISES
BY KENCHO WANGDI, in Thimphu, Bhutan; JUHEL BROWNE, in Port of Spain, Trinidad; BILL CORCORAN, in Johannesburg; and KEITH NUTHALL
THE RISING price in oil has hit the prosperity of many companies, communities and countries, but it is the world’s poorest people, living in what the United Nations calls least developed countries that are suffering the most.…