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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice’s Court of First Instance has cut by Euro 153 million the fines previously imposed by the European Commission on eight American, German and Japanese companies for operating an international cartel in the graphite electrode sector.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE LATEST expansion project has been designed by the French architect Dominique Perrault and the design has been developed in association with Luxembourg architects Paczowski et Fritsch. M Perrault is internationally known for his large-scale projects, including the much-discussed (and controversial) National Library of France.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A BRITISH company Norske Veritas Certification and the Japanese Quality Assurance Organisation have been given authority to approve technologies as generating tradeable credits under the Kyoto Protocol clean development mechanism. They would check for compliance with approved Kyoto greenhouse gas emission reduction methodologies, such as oil field gas recovery and utilisation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE
SENDING employees abroad or setting up overseas branches always take some preparation and maybe the most important job is taking care of workers’ health needs. Not only must local employment laws be followed, but companies must ensure that they can manage the alien health risks faced abroad.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Japanese-owned Sumitec International are creating a US$45 million facility, providing lease financing for Russian companies expanding or modernising construction equipment. The scheme will focus on Siberia and other far-east regions of Russia, which – said the bank – “are currently under-serviced by the leasing industry.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is teaming up with Japanese-owned Sumitec International to create a US$45 million facility, providing lease financing for Russian companies expanding or modernising their mining equipment. The scheme will especially focus on Siberia and other far-east regions of Russia, which – said a bank memorandum – “are currently under-serviced by the leasing industry.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE JAPANESE government has lost its appeal against a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel ruling that had concluded the United States followed WTO rules when staging a sunset review of anti-dumping duties on Japan exports of corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPECIALISTS from the Office International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation are investigating outbreaks of “atypical” BSE strains in Italy and Japan, to confirm whether they are new strains of the disease. An ad hoc group of experts from the UK, Switzerland, Italy and Japan has been convened at the OIE’s Paris headquarters to review new test data.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE JAPANESE government has appealed against a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel ruling that supported claims from the United States that it had followed WTO rules when staging a sunset review of its anti-dumping duties on corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Japan.…

BY MARK ROWE
A GLASS of beer a day keeps old age at bay, apparently. A Japanese scientist has developed a beer that he claims makes you look younger by improving the texture and smoothness of your skin. While there was a passing craze in the 1970s for women to wash their hair in beer to give it more “body”, this brew, translated as “facial treatment beer”, is drunk, rather than applied.…