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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed opening 48 European Union (EU) import quotas for China and American foodstuffs, taking account of previous trade agreements with the 10 eastern and southern European countries joining the EU in 2004. China quotas cover rice and garlic, USA quotas – poultry, for instance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed opening 15 meat and livestock European Union (EU) annual import quotas for American products, including 16,665 tonnes of poultry meat. The move has been negotiated with Washington because of the EU’s incorporation in 2004 of 10 eastern and southern European countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed opening 48 food European Union (EU) import quotas for China and American products. The move has been negotiated with Washington and Beijing because of the EU’s incorporation in 2004 of 10 eastern and southern European countries.…

BY DAVID EIMER, in Beijing

"Build nuclear power, enrich the people", proclaim the billboards at China’s Qinshan nuclear facility in the south-eastern province of Zhejiang. Qinshan, a 120 kilometres south of Shanghai, is the centre of China’s nuclear sector and home to five of the country’s nine operational reactors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed opening 48 EU import quotas for China and American foodstuffs, taking account of previous trade agreements with the 10 eastern and southern European countries joining the EU in 2004. Brussels is proposing new China quotas for 57,000 tonnes of rice, plus 20,500 tonnes of garlic, and 16,665 tonnes of American poultry, for instance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CHINA is being lent US$83.66 million to increase its use of renewable energy, by developing a Chinese commercial market for green power suppliers to supply the electricity grid on a large scale, efficiently and cost-effectively. Renewable energy sources in China have so far been small-scale, pilot programmes, outside the main electricity supply.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Bank has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with China’s finance ministry for developing a Clean Development Fund (CDF), funnelling pollution reduction revenues gained from emissions trading regimes into sustainable development. *http://www.carbonfinance.org

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BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney

RECENT positive advances in the paint and coatings industry symbolise general satisfaction with Malaysia’s business outlook. It might not have the cheapest labour in Asia but the workforce is skilled, productive and highly competitive. Access to infrastructure (especially ports) for exports is also reported to be good.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

OUT of 60 recommendations made in a report last December by the European Parliament on strategies to prevent human trafficking only one specifically mentioned money laundering and even there the message was essentially "carry on as before" and "keep your eyes open".…

BY DAVID EIMER, in Beijing

TO be beautiful in China is to be fair-skinned and for cosmetics companies, that’s an opportunity to tap the world’s largest emerging market for whitening creams. According to Chinese government figures, China’s beauty and cosmetics market was worth between 42 and 46 billion Yuan (US$5-5.5 billion) last year and a third of that total was spent on whitening products.…