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BY EMMA JACKSON

THE GLOBAL fashion and textile market has increasingly been influenced by green marketing buzzwords such as ‘organic’, ‘fair trade’ and ‘sustainable’, with the market for ethical and environmentally-friendly fashion growing slowly despite many challenges.

Assessing the size of this sub-sector is a tricky business, given there is no international standard about what is green and what is not green.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

THE USA Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) hope of regulating greenhouse gas emissions is putting a damper on investment in new coal plants in the United States. However there is some hope that coal could become clean enough to cohabit with future American emissions rules through carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology and tests are now underway in America to demonstrate its effectiveness.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NORWAY oil and gas company Statoil has signed a cooperation agreement with the UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) to together develop natural gas and biomass resources in sub-Saharan Africa, plus central and south America. Projects could involve the creation of private-public partnerships involving Statoil and UNIDO.…

BY WANG FANGQING

CHINA: Shanghai reaches out to the Ivy League

Wang Fangqing

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CHINA: Shanghai reaches out to the Ivy League

Wang Fangqing

China’s largest city Shanghai has been successfully pushing for western universities to establish branches serving Chinese as well as foreign students.…

By Emma Jackson, International News Services

Global news agency International News Services Ltd – in association with world-leading business publisher Aroq Ltd - has released a major new e-book compiling global textile regulation news and analysis since 2001. This comprehensive 187 page report offers clothing and textile companies, consultants and lobbyists a survey of the sector’s rapid evolution to a free, global market in the last 10 years. The report is a detailed backgrounder of the last decade’s textile policy, collected and arranged in a concise document with monthly summaries to direct and help select topics and an essential background brief for marketers seeking to break into new markets, or lobbyists wanting to understand the rationale behind trade regulations they want changed.

The document, available from International News Services and via Aroq Ltd’s prestigious industry news service just-style.com is a must-have for business, policy makers and stakeholders in the textile industry, according to Keith Nuthall, editor of International News Services. “No where else will you find such a comprehensive regulatory history compiled into one document,” he said.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

FOR those doubters who claim the world’s senior anti-money laundering/combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) organisation the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) does not have much clout, a look at the case of Ecuador makes instructive reading. Last February, the Paris-basedFATF issued a stinging criticism of this South American country, with a public statement officially listing Ecuador as a country with serious AML/CFT deficiencies, along with such dubious fellow travellers as Angola, Ethiopia and North Korea.…

BY WANG FANGQING

Major Japanese brewer Kirin Brewery Company is to test the American market its non-alcoholic beer ‘Free’ in March. Priced between US dollars USD3 to USD5 per bottle (334ml), ‘Free’ will be initially sold in over 1,000 restaurants in west coast cities, notably Los Angeles, with motorists a key target.…

BY JOSEPHINE MCKENNA, in Rome

ON the face of it the record is impressive. In the past 12 months Italian customs officials and other agents have carried out raids on counterfeiters from Milan in the north to Taranto in the south, seizing millions of euros’ worth fake fashion merchandise.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

PETROBRAS, Brazil’s national oil company, has been heavily investing in pipeline technology via a large-scale project to expand its pipeline network. This investment of time, energy and money has put Brazil on the cutting edge of global pipeline technology developments.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

OLIVE oil production in the Levantine counties of the Middle East has moved away from traditional methods to bolster exports and develop domestic sales. But where Syria has risen to be the fourth largest producer in the world, Jordan’s modernisation of the sector is being undermined by cheap smuggled olive oil from Syria, and Lebanon needs major investment to bring the sector up to speed.…