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BY KEITH NUTHALL

HE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has reimposed for five years – albeit at a lower level of 19% – anti-dumping duties on silicon exported to the EU from China and South Korea. Ministers acted because of concerns removing the tariffs would allow unfair undercutting of EU producers.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

AS trade barriers continue to diminish, clothing brands are becoming more global. However it is not as easy for the sizes of their goods to be quite as worldly. International players need to adapt their fits for different target markets but that level of adaptation varies by country.…

By Karryn Miller, International News Services

Inter-racial marriages may be on the rise throughout Asia but they still hold a minority position. Homogenous countries like Japan and Korea are slowly adapting to the idea of mixed families but legally and socially there is room for improvement. In these countries acceptance of multicultural couplings goes from one extreme to other being both a source of glamour and a point of discrimination.

In Japan a popular reality TV series “Okusama wa Gaikokujin” (literally my wife is a foreigner) held a prime-time spot in 2006 and 2007. Each episode focused on a mixed family and how the foreign wife coped with Japanese life. The series may have sated Japanese people’s curiosity about intercultural couples but in the process it separated inter-racial marriages from other marriages making them appear novel, different, and sometimes even strange.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

ACCORDING to the Korean Paint & Printing Industry Cooperative (KPIC), South Korean paint and coatings sales hit US$3 billion in 2008, up 4% from the previous year. KPIC accredited the boost to an increase in sale prices due to higher raw material costs, rather then profits however.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

After the disappointment of the Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009, global warming campaigners have hoped UN climate change talks at Cancun, Mexico in December will thrash out a viable successor to the Kyoto agreement, which ends in 2012.…

BY JULIAN RYALL

JAPANESE industries in general have had a tough past couple of years and the cosmetics sector is no exception. That said, manufacturers here have largely stressed the positive and developed a range of innovative new products that meet the needs of ever-more demanding consumers and opened up new product areas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved a European Commission proposal erasing a trade loophole that has enabled Chinese exporters to the European Union (EU) of steel ropes and cables to evade an anti-dumping duty by illicitly diverting supplies through South Korea.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed erasing a trade loophole that has enabled Chinese exporters to the European Union (EU) of steel ropes and cables to evade an anti-dumping duty by illicitly diverting supplies through South Korea. It has asked the EU Council of Ministers to extend the Chinese 60.4% duties to cover steel ropes and cables exported from South Korea – regardless of whether they are South Korean-made.…

BY JULIAN RYALL and KARRYN MILLER

RETAINING a competitive advantage in a saturated market is never an easy task but the job becomes even more challenging during a financial slump. East Asia’s most developed countries Japan and South Korea have a strong record in technical innovation and their paint and coatings companies always bear close examination for inventions and good practice.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, FRANCES WANG, AHMAD PATHONI, WILLIAM BARNES, KARRYN MILLER and KEITH NUTHALL

THE PEOPLE of Okinawa are famous – even in ageing Japan – for their longevity. The women of this sub-tropical chain of islands have the longest life expectancy in the world, at nearly 89 years, they have the lowest mortality rate from chronic diseases linked to ageing and the highest ration of centenarians in the world – nearly six times the rate in other industrialised nations.…