Search Results for: Japanese

BY ANDREW CAVE and KARRYN MILLER

FACING a looming energy crisis, the battle to produce lithium ion batteries to power hybrid and battery cars is heating up. Germany’s Robert Bosch and Samsung of South Korea recently formed a joint venture SB LiMotive Co to compete with the likes of BorgWarner, Johnson Controls, TRW and Continental.…

BY SAEED AKHTAR BALOCH

PAKISTAN’s automobile industry, contributing 2.8 % to the country’s GDP by financial year (FY) 2006-7, has grown impressively this decade. But the sector’s growth may turn negative this year because of high inflation, especially rising steel prices, political uncertainty and overall economic recession in Pakistan and elsewhere.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

INTRODUCTION

About 10 years ago the American distiller JB Wagoner decided to market a fiery liquor made from the cactus-like agave plants growing in the hills on his estate at Temecula in California. He called it "temequila." It soon became known as "the American tequila," proving indistinguishable in taste, texture and effect from the well-known Mexican drink.…

BY JULIAN RYALL

JAPANESE cosmetics giant Kanebo has announced plans to open a research and training academy that will offer an all-round education in aesthetic care, nail care and aromatherapy.

The initiative will, in turn, promote the brand and Kanebo’s cosmetics ranges to a new generation of beauticians, significantly affecting the company’s business performance, it hopes.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, JULIAN RYALL, and PHILIPPA JONES

COMPARED to their counterparts in Europe and Asia, North American men are at the bottom of the league tables for using beauty products, leaving male cosmetics marketers with both a lot of work, and a lot opportunity.…

BY GAVIN BLAIR

EXPLOSIVES screening procedures, like most security measures at international airports in Japan, follow the lead of the United States’ Transportation Security Administration (TSA). However, airport operators are somewhat less than satisfied with the performance of the current generation of certified explosive detection systems (EDS) or explosive trace detection systems (ETD).…

BY MARK GODFREY

GIVEN that much of the world’s shoes, giftware and electronic appliances are made in China’s southeastern Fujian province, it is easy to understand why ExxonMobil fought so hard to join Aramco and China’s Sinopec in building a huge refinery here.…

BY WILLIAM BARNES

A WOMAN brushes past palm fronds into the pastel lights of a busy Bangkok salon. At the counter she turns what looks to be a flawless, ivory face towards a woman in a vaguely medical uniform: "Aiyee! I am getting so old.…

By Gavin Blair

Though the number of academic specialists in commercial crime in the Asia-Pacific region may be fewer than in the US or Europe, many of the leading figures are both willing to work with corporate clients and have a great deal of experience outside the ivory towers.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE WORLD is not over-full of specialist academic experts at universities and colleges teaching anti-money laundering methods. This is partly because the subject is often subsumed into financial crime generally and partly because genuine AML skills can command a useful premium to banks and other major financial institutions better able to support lavish salaries and back-up systems.…