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IN KOREAN NUCLEAR POWER, IT'S NOT ONLY KIM JONG-IL WHO'S PUNCHING ABOVE HIS WEIGHT
BY ANDREW SALMON, in Seoul
THE WORDS ‘nuclear’ and ‘Korea’ automatically conjure up images of Kim Jong-il’s underground atomic weapons programs, but south of the heavily militarised border, it is South Korea that has quietly built up one of the world’s most competitive nuclear industries.…
INDIA'S GROWING PROSPERITY IS A BOON FOR THE COUNTRY'S COSMETICS INDUSTRY
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi
LEGEND has it that Mogul Emperor and the maker of Taj Mahal, Shah Jahan, was so fond of rose attar – traditional Indian perfume, that he reserved its use for his royalty. The complexity of making 10 grams of this distilled scent from 40 kg of pink rose petals made it so exclusive that all his royal letters were laced with it to give them a mark (smell) of authenticity.…
FOOD PRICES MAY RISE BECAUSE OF GLOBAL BIOFUEL BOOM
BY ANDREW CAVE
BIOFUELS have generated earnest debate ever since German inventor Rudolph Diesel ran the world’s first diesel engine on peanut oil back in 1894, but suddenly there is a biofuels boom that’s moving global markets.
World economies are in a race to find alternatives to fossil fuels and turning crops such as wheat and corn into ethanol or oilseed rape, soya, or palm oil into biodiesel is having an impact on farmers, manufacturer and industrial producers worldwide.…
FAO DEVELOPS INNOVATIVE PROJECTS TO BOOST THE AQUACULTURE INDUSTRY WORLDWIDE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MANY international organisations have an impact on the fish farming sector, although with quite a narrow remit, drawing up specialist health and environmental standards for the industry, for instance. However, the UN’s Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has a broader role, with freedom to pursue a wide variety of imaginative schemes.…
OIL MAJORS FACE UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT OF VAST MIDDLE EAST LNG RESERVES
BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut
WITH demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) surging across the globe, the Persian Gulf is at the epicentre of LNG developments due to its vast gas resources. But the rapid expansion of the sector is not without complications.…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION PREDICTS INCREASED CLOTHING COMMERCE THROUGH ASIAN TRADE DEALS
BY PAUL COCHRANE
SLATED European Union (EU) free trade agreements (FTA) with South Korea, India and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries would dramatically boost commercial activity in the clothing, textile and apparel sectors if the agreements are passed, European Commission analysis says.…
OIL MAJORS FACE UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT OF VAST MIDDLE EAST LNG RESERVES
BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut
WITH demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) surging across the globe, the Persian Gulf is at the epicentre of LNG developments due to its vast gas resources. But the rapid expansion of the sector is not without complications.…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION PREDICTS LEATHER COMMERCE GAINS FROM ASIA TRADE DEALS
BY PAUL COCHRANE
SLATED European Union (EU) free trade agreements (FTA) with South Korea, India and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) will dramatically boost commercial activity in the leather industry if the agreements are passed, claims a study by Copenhagen Economics for the European Commission.…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION PREDICTS INCREASED CLOTHING COMMERCE THROUGH ASIAN TRADE DEALS
BY PAUL COCHRANE
SLATED European Union (EU) free trade agreements (FTA) with South Korea, India and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries would dramatically boost commercial activity in the clothing, textile and apparel sectors if the agreements are passed, European Commission analysis says.…
EU COUNTERFEIT FIGURES SHOW BOOM IN EU COSMETICS COUNTERFEIT SMUGGLING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BOOM in counterfeit cosmetics and perfumes being smuggled into the European Union (EU) is intensifying, according to the latest figures from the European Commission. It says EU customs officials seized 1.5 million counterfeit personal care products in 2006, up 128% on 2005.…