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BY JANE MOIR, in Hong Kong

A THIRD law school is to open in Hong Kong this September amid a degree of trepidation as legal graduates with poor English skills struggle to find jobs in the city. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) will teach a full-time bachelor of laws (LLB) and postgraduate programmes, but some academics have criticised a decision to widen the pool of lawyers while declining English language standards amongst HK students draws fire from legal employers and the bench.…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg

SECURITY specialists and risk assessors will be increasingly in demand within oil majors seeking to tap sub-Saharan Africa’s oil and gas riches in the next few years, experts say, with available resources and political uncertainty growing in an uneasy parallel.…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg

SOUTH Africa and China have entered into a textile and clothing agreement to limit the flood of Chinese imports into Africa’s biggest clothing manufacturing centre.

Initialled during an official visit to South Africa by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, it offers a lifeline to the beleaguered South African textile industry, which has shed jobs and factories because of a surge in cheap Chinese imports.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED States and the European Union (EU) have launched a joint action programme to fight the counterfeiting of goods by international organised crime, an increasing problem for the pharmaceutical industry. Washington and Brussels say they will set up joint-border enforcement actions focusing on fighting intellectual piracy and establish teams of diplomats in third country embassies tasked with sharing data and intelligence on counterfeiting.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED States and the European Union (EU) have launched a joint action programme to fight the counterfeiting of goods by international organised crime, which remains an acute problem for the cigarette industry. Washington and Brussels say they will set up joint-border enforcement actions focusing on fighting intellectual piracy and establish teams of diplomats in third country embassies tasked with sharing data and intelligence on counterfeiting.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the proposed acquisition of the inks and adhesive resins business of Dutch company Akzo Nobel by the USA’s Hexion, part of the Apollo Group. This follows a Commission inquiry focusing on potential damage to competition in supplies of printing ink industry resins, especially rosin resins.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED States and the European Union (EU) have launched a joint action programme to fight the counterfeiting of goods by international organised crime, which remains an acute problem for the clothing industry. Washington and Brussels say they will set up joint-border enforcement actions focusing on fighting intellectual piracy and establish teams of diplomats in third country embassies tasked with sharing data and intelligence on counterfeiting.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) internal market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has welcomed the creation of regular cooperation between the EU and the Chinese government on introducing international accounting standards in China. Speaking after meeting Chinese officials in Beijing, he noted an EU-China joint statement where both sides "agreed to strengthen bilateral communication and cooperation on developing and implementing accounting standards".…

BY MARK ROWE, in Xian, China

THE FACE that China’s museum sector presents to the world might have looked very different had a farm labourer chosen another part of a remote field near the city of Xian in 1974 to dig a well.…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg, South Africa and DAVID HAWORTH, in Taiwan

TRADITIONAL health care systems do not always get a good press, being accused of incorporating superstition and poor medical practice. To some western public health advocates, they are akin to bringing back the leach.…