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BY MARK ROWE
INTERNATIONAL cosmetics companies are increasingly casting an eye over south-east Asia. In the middle of the first decade of the 21st Century it would appear to offer all things to all companies.

With Asia (including nearby China) representing half of the world’s population and an economic growth rate ranging between 5 and 10%, many companies are interested in entering or developing these markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has approved a third revision of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Pharma-GATT Agreement, removing import duties on 1,290 more pharmaceuticals and medicine ingredients traded between major manufacturing countries.

This agreement was originally framed in 1994, and has been updated twice to account for technical progress and expand its scope.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EXPERT space agencies worldwide have been encouraged by the United Nations to consider the risk of a collision between orbiting satellites with nuclear power sources and debris increasingly orbiting the Earth, littering space. The UN committee on the peaceful uses of outer space has published the first of a series of reports following a December resolution from the UN general assembly to consider the problem.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is catching up with the United States in innovation, a European Commission-financed statistical report has claimed, although the US still has many significant advantages. This year’s European Innovation Scoreboard (2006) concludes: “The innovation gap between the EU [minus new members Bulgaria and Romania] and Japan, and in particular with the US is decreasing.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has rejected five appeals by seamless steel tubes producers, such as oil country tubular goods, against fines imposed by the European Commission for participating in a cartel called the Europe-Japan Club. The ECJ rejected appeals by Salzgitter Mannesmann, of Germany, Dalmine, of Italy; plus Japan’s Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd and the Nippon Steel Corp.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Japan have signed in Tokyo a wide-ranging 10-year nuclear fusion research agreement. It will enable EU scientists to participate in ITER-related studies in Japan, such as tests on reactor materials and computer simulation.…

BY MARK ROWE
AN EXHIBITION centre in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou will next month (March) be the venue for Asia’s largest personal care trade conference. Manufacturers, formulators, scientists and suppliers will converge to promote new ranges to what is now recognised as being the world’s most burgeoning market: China.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London
A WORLDWIDE standard for automotive safety glazing may only be a few months away, now that suppliers have agreed on the content and wording.

The new draft standard was finalized at a January conference in Brussels under the umbrella of CLEPA (the European Association of Automotive Suppliers), with representatives from the US, Japan, Canada, Belgium, France and Germany taking part.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BALTIC States are the European Union’s (EU) boom-region for research spending increases, according to the latest R&D figures from EU statistical agency Eurostat, which show Britain’s performance as relatively static. Annual average growth rates in real terms research spending from 2001 to 2005 ranged from +18% in Latvia, +17% in Estonia, and +11% in Lithuania, (+15% in Cyprus).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BALTIC States are the European Union’s (EU) boom-region for research spending increases, according to the latest R&D figures from EU statistical agency Eurostat, which show Britain’s performance as relatively static. Annual average growth rates in real terms research spending from 2001 to 2005 ranged from +18% in Latvia, +17% in Estonia, and +11% in Lithuania, (+15% in Cyprus).…