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FOOD INDUSTRY NANOTECHNOLOGY INVENTIONS FEATURE
BY MARK ROWE
IF proof were needed that nanotechnology is more than an esoteric scientific discipline then it surely comes with the news that nanotech is about to come to a fast-food restaurant near you. Last month (March), OilFresh, a California-based company, commercially launched a nanotechnology-based frying oil in the United States.…
EU BRITAIN WASTE WATER CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally threatened the UK government with legal action at the European Court of Justice over alleged breaches of the European Union (EU) urban waste water treatment directive. Brussels claims that there are legally "insufficient collection and treatment facilities" for London, Torbay and Whitburn, in England, and Kilbarchan, in Scotland.…
EGYPT INVESTMENT ADVICE - EGYPT INVESTMENT PITFALLS AND OPPORTUNITIES
BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Cairo
FOREIGN investment in Egypt is on the rise, spurred on by new legislation, deregulation and a pro-business Cabinet under Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, although there are still plenty of pitfalls for the unwary and unprepared.
Indeed, the door has only recently opened wide to overseas investors, with Egypt in 1997 allowing foreign companies 100% ownership of Egyptian companies, the repatriation of dividends and tax exemptions.…
CHINA PAINT INDUSTRY FEATURE AUTOMOBILE PAINTS USA CONSTRUCTION GROWTH
BY JANE MOIR, in Hong Kong
CONSTRUCTION is on the up, people are eagerly buying homes, cars are being churned out at a rapid pace and the 2008 Beijing Olympics are just around the corner. The demand for paint and coatings in China should never have been better.…
GLOBAL AUTOMOBILE AIR CONDITIONING REGULATIONS EU USA NEGOTIATIONS
BY ALAN OSBORN, in London
EUROPEAN and US regulatory bodies have agreed to co-operate to develop common testing and engineering standards for mobile air conditioning systems such as those used in automobiles. Because some of the gases used in these systems, such as HFC 134a, are far more lethal to the environment than carbon dioxide, the European Union (EU) has agreed to start phasing them out in 2011 and stop using them in new autos from 2017.…
EMEA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR INTERVIEW EU MEDICINES AGENCY
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Medicines Agency (EMEA) stands ready to help pharmaceutical companies in the development and marketing of new drugs in an effort to halt and reverse the decline in the number of new medicines being brought to the world market.…
EU OIL AND GAS ROUND UP - KROES COMPETITION, ESA SATELLITE, EFTA - GCC DEAL, FRANCE, SPAIN, ITALY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) competition commissioner has indicated she could push for regulatory reform to improve competition in EU energy markets, in parallel with legal enforcement action using existing rules. Neelie Kroes highlighted "bundling of generation, supply, pipelines, grids, and distribution (as) at the heart of the current EU energy market failure."…
EU FUEL CELL BUS TRIAL EXTENDED TRANSPORT FOR LONDON BRITAIN - LOW EMISSIONS PUBLIC TRANSPORT
BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London
THE EUROPEAN Union has extended Euro 18.5 million trial running fuel cell buses in seven out of nine European locations for a further year, to gain more data for developing hydrogen technology under its HyFLEET: CUTE (clean urban transport for Europe) project.…
MALTA UNIVERSITY RECTOR INTERVIEW - SMALL COUNTRY UNIVERSITY INTERVIEWS
BY ALAN OSBORN
FACT BOX
Number of students enrolled at university: 9,608
Population of Malta: 399,867
Fulltime foreign students at university: 8%
Percentage of Maltese 18-year olds in tertiary education: 20%
INTERVIEW
A UK student would feel instantly at home in the University of Malta which has a distinctive British personality and bears an aura of historic durability not found in any of the others in this series.…
AFRICA MONEY LAUNDERING FEATURE LOOSE LEGAL CONTROLS CORRUPTION
BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg
CENTRAL bankers, drug barons, warlords, corporate bosses and small town crooks in Africa are all washing their money despite attempts by governments and international law enforcement agencies to bring them to book. But financial crime has never been as lucrative as now on the world’s poorest continent.…