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BY KEITH NUTHALL

WITH the Asia Pacific paint industry being increasingly innovative in its development of paints and seeking specialist overseas markets for its products, the relevance of international standards for its manufacturing processes is becoming increasingly apparent.

Indeed, the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) (NOTE: ISO USES AMERICAN SPELLING FOR ITS NAME) last year picked the paint and coatings sector to launch its new collection of CD compilations of its standards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally asked permission to spend Euro 3.4 billion between 2007 and 2013 on getting Europe’s planned global positioning satellite network Galileo into orbit. The huge price tag for European Union (EU) taxpayers follows the failure of negotiations with prospective private contractors earlier this year who would have shared costs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has warned that the rapid industrialisation of global animal food production is increasing the risk of disease transmission from animals to humans, especially given expanding global trade networks. In a policy paper Industrial Livestock Production and Global Health Risks, the FAO said: "The risk of disease transmission from animals to humans will increase…due to human and livestock population growth, dynamic changes in livestock production, the emergence of worldwide agro-food networks and a significant increase in the mobility of people and goods."…

BY ALAN OSBORN

Over 160 MEPs have signed a declaration demanding "country-of-origin" labelling on all clothing, footwear and other goods imported into the European Union. The formal text notes that such marking is particularly important for certain categories of goods such as textiles and clothing, jewellery, ceramics, glassware and furnishings "whose association with a place of production in the global market may communicate to the consumer much more than geographical information."…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa, and KEITH NUTHALL

IT would almost be hard for Canada not to be one of the seafood industry’s largest global players. After all, surrounded by the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific oceans and the Great Lakes as well, Canada has the world’s longest coastline (244,000 km).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-coordinated research project has helped develop coatings that enable moving engine parts to operate without lubricating oils. These "dry lubricant free transmission applications", said a European Commission briefing note, were developed by coating engine parts with "one micrometer thick vacuum-deposited diamond-like carbon".…

BY ALAN OSBORN

AS a demonstration of how the top higher education people from across the world can meet, debate, agree and disagree without ever losing sight of their common goals as academic leaders you would find it hard to better the 4-yearly conference of the UNESCO-based International Association of Universities (IAU).…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

The US$ 165 million takeover of India’s largest textile company Gokaldas Exports by the US private equity company Blackstone has received a resounding welcome from the Indian garment industry.

"This is the best thing to happen.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE

THE BIG question with solar energy is whether it will become sufficiently profitable for major utilities to provide comprehensive services. After all, solar energy is more abundant than all other renewable resources; it’s free and it can be harnessed almost anywhere in the world.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE USA’S National Science Foundation has tried to put a positive gloss on the latest global comparative scientific publishing figures, saying that although the American industry is less prolific than that in Europe, it is still more important.…