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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is seeking a mandate from European Union (EU) ministers to negotiate a new international Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) with major trading partners, including the US, Japan, South Korea, Mexico and New Zealand. Brussels claims such an agreement would boost cooperation and legal protection over counterfeiting in and between these jurisdictions.…

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 KEITH NUTHALL

A PROPOSED European Union (EU) directive aimed at protecting clothing and textile businesses from counterfeit brands has been undermined by a European Court of Justice (ECJ). Earlier this year, the European Parliament approved in principle a directive on ‘criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights’.…

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 KEITH NUTHALL

A PROPOSED European Union (EU) directive aimed at protecting food businesses from counterfeit brands has been undermined by a European Court of Justice (ECJ). Earlier this year, the European Parliament approved in principle a directive on ‘criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights’.…

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 ALAN OSBORN

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) legal profession suffered a significant reversal in June this year when the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that reporting obligations imposed on lawyers participating in financial transactions with no link to judicial proceedings did not breach the right to a fair trial.…

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 ANDREW SALMON, in Seoul

THE WORDS ‘nuclear’ and ‘Korea’ automatically conjure up images of Kim Jong-il’s underground atomic weapons programs, but south of the heavily militarised border, it is South Korea that has quietly built up one of the world’s most competitive nuclear industries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BULGARIA’S first European Union (EU) Commissioner, Meglena Kuneva, responsible for consumer affairs, has called for an EU-wide system mandating declarations of origin for all imported non-EU products. There is no such standard system in the EU, in contrast to the USA and Japan, and although the European Commission proposed creating such labelling rules in 2005, EU ministers have since refused to back the idea.…