Search Results for: Japanese

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Kuwait

THE MARKET for fake car parts in the Middle East is rising at an alarming pace, now accounting for an estimated 30% of the region’s US$11 billion parts sector. In a recent Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report, the Middle East was highlighted as a central market in the US$16 billion global trade in fake auto parts, which is growing at an estimated 9-11% a year.…

BY MARK ROWE, in London, JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo, and RACHEL JONES, in Caracas

PERSONAL care products – soaps, cosmetics, lotions and hair products – have always been important consumers of vegetable and animal-based oils and fats. Yet, this is a complex sub-sector of the global oils and fats industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

COMPANY car fleets that use independent garages for repairs are increasingly risking their vehicles being fitted with counterfeit parts that could break down, causing road accidents – the world’s largest think tank has claimed.

A detailed report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) has cited the US Federal Trade Commission claiming counterfeiting costs the global automotive parts industry US$12 billion a year.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo

KANEBO Cosmetics is aiming to make new inroads into Japan’s 20-something market with the release on December 16 of its new champagne gold and shiny pink cosmetics range, Coffret D’Or (golden casket in English).

Consisting of 44 products, the new range uses two new ingredients designed to enhance depth and radiance, the company claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CHINA has been baldly accused of hosting much of the world’s booming counterfeit auto parts production. A detailed report by the planet’s largest think tank – the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) – said: "China has been repeatedly identified as the principal source of counterfeit activity in the automotive sector, involving both trademark and design infringements.…

Monica Dobie

Ottawa

ENJOYING one unit of alcohol each day is generally considered healthy by most health practitioners in helping keep cholesterol levels down, but now researchers have found that injecting alcohol directly through the skin may also help combat cancer.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo

ALL Nippon Airways (ANA) says it has made checking in and boarding faster with the introduction of its innovative ‘SKiP’ (NOTE – CORRECT SPELLING) service. At 50 airports across Japan, ANA customers can bypass physical check-in procedures by touching an ANA credit card, mileage card or adapted IC-enabled mobile phone to readers at the security check and the boarding gate.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

ENJOYING one unit of alcohol each day is generally considered healthy by most health practitioners in helping keep cholesterol levels down, but now researchers have found that injecting alcohol directly through the skin may also help combat cancer.…

BY KARRYN CARTELLE

THE SIGNING of a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the United States is expected to fuel an already booming seafood trade. And with the Koreans having a host of other FTAs in the works, it appears this seafood-producing nation will use free trade agreements to push its seafood products to every continent.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa, and KEITH NUTHALL

IT would almost be hard for Canada not to be one of the seafood industry’s largest global players. After all, surrounded by the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific oceans and the Great Lakes as well, Canada has the world’s longest coastline (244,000 km).…