Search Results for: India

BY MONICA DOBIE
A UNIVERSITY of Manchester study has found that the active ingredient in many common anti-fungal drugs is effective in killing the tuberculosis bacteria, a discovery that could result in significantly reducing the number of deaths from standard TB and tackling emerging drug-resistant strains of the deadly disease.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
PAINT and coatings manufacturers in the Asia Pacific region could be storing up trouble for themselves if they fail to grasp and act on the full implications of the European Union’s (EU) newly minted REACH system for classifying and labelling chemicals.…

BY MARK ROWE
IT might sound strange, but Darwin’s theory of evolution is as relevant to the anti-crime industry and its battle against counterfeiters, IT fraud and fake documentation as it is to the animal kingdom. As technology evolves to give security forces the upper hand, criminals and counterfeiters have historically been quick to play catch up.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DISEASE is maybe the seafood industry’s worst nightmare. Whole stocks, natural or farmed, can be wiped out overnight. And, with globalisation meaning disease is ever more likely to be transported by international shipping, cargo planes, chilled train wagons and lorries, it is increasingly important seafood businesses monitor disease outbreaks abroad, to protect themselves and their sticks against exposure.…

BY ANDREW SALMON, in Seoul
LAST October, South Korea was admitted as an observer to the world’s premier group of money laundering fighters – the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and given the nation’s recent moves to strengthen its anti-money laundering regime its path to full membership in approximately two years appears smooth.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has re-imposed definitive antidumping duties on imports into the European Union (EU) of certain polyethylene terephthalate (PET) from India, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan, as proposed by the European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced plans to reimpose definitive antidumping duties on imports into the European Union (EU) of certain polyethylene terephthalate (PET) from India, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan. The original duties were imposed in 2000 and were to lapse, but the Polyethylene Terephthalate Committee of Plastics Europe called for their reimposition, claiming the “expiry of the measures would… result in a continuation or recurrence of dumping and injury to the EU industry.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has re-imposed definitive antidumping duties on imports into the European Union (EU) of certain polyethylene terephthalate (PET) from India, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan, as proposed by the European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL health group Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has made an unusual appeal to the European Union (EU) to back the Indian government in its legal fight with Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis over generic drugs. The company claims that India, whose generic drug sector produces a large proportion of medicines used in developing countries, insufficiently protects new drug products from being copied.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA, India and Japan have joined the 10 Association of South East Asia Nations (ASEAN) countries, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea in signing the Cebu Declaration on East Asian Energy Security, on promoting energy sustainability. Although the pact includes no binding targets on emissions reduction, it strongly urges biofuel and other alternative energy sources development.…