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BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo

THE OBSESSION among many European women for tanned skin is fading, particularly among women in their late 30s, according to a new study by Japan’s Kanebo Cosmetics, meaning there is a small but growing market for whitening products.…

BY MARK GODFREY, in Beijing

WORRIES about inflation and food shortages have left the Chinese government struggling to balance efforts to temper inflation with its ambitious biofuels development programme. Increasing demand for food and biofuels in China have been a key driver in increasing global consumption of fats and oils at an average 4% per year according to the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO).…

By Keith Nuthall

THE ABILITY of private tertiary education to give emerging economies a shot in the arm will be debated this week at a major conference in Washington DC, staged by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank.…

BY MARK ROWE

MALAYSIA’S paint and construction industries are going through a stabilisation phase, according to the government’s Department for Statistics. Figures released by the department show that the paint industry grew by 3% in both 2006 and 2007, and is projected to grow by around 5% each year from now until 2011.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

YOU would think it would be possible to ensure that liquids capable of making explosives are not taken on to aircraft without at the same time requiring the confiscation of countless bottles of duty-free from passengers at airports every day.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Damascus

RISING passenger figures and economic reforms have prompted expansion at the Damascus International Airport and have also inspired plans to build three more airports in Syria, while private airliners are taking to the sky for the first time in decades.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Damascus and Beirut, and HELENA FLUSFELDER, in Jerusalem

INTRODUCTION AND THE GULF

THE DENIM sector in the Middle East is as diverse as it is fragmented, with strong demand in the Gulf and Israel for major brand names and the latest trends, while in the less economically developed parts of the Levant international brands are of less importance than style.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed that Euro 3,479/tonne anti-dumping duties on exports into the European Union (EU) from China of anticoagulant precursor coumarin be extended to cover cargoes from India, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. Brussels fears that dumped Chinese exports are being diverted through these countries to evade the duties.…

BY MARK ROWE

WHEN the European Union’s (EU) energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, visited Turkmenistan last autumn it served notice that this central Asian ex-Soviet republic had come in from the cold. Once a pariah on the international stage, because of the activity of its crazed former president Sapamurat Niyazov (NOTE – SPELLING IS CORRECT), Turkmenistan has become something more than a bit player in the international energy sector.…

BY DOMINIQUE PATTON, in Beijing

ALTHOUGH Taiwan’s tense relations with China does not help the necessary cooperation with the Chinese mainland that would help bring some of the island’s biggest economic criminals to book, it is nonetheless eager to co-operate with international authorities to fight money laundering.…