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BY RUSSELL BERMAN

WITH the auto industry in the United States and Europe in the midst of an unprecedented downturn, the international paints and coatings sector has taken a deep hit as well and has been forced to turn to painful strategies in the hopes of riding out the recession.…

BY RUSSELL BERMAN

THE SWEEPING energy reforms being undertaken by the new administration of US President Barack Obama include billions of dollars in funding for biofuels and other clean energy sources.

America’s biofuels industry is applauding Mr Obama’s early moves, although advocates are still awaiting regulatory directives on renewable fuel standards.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

"THE STONE Age did not end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of oil," said Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani in 2003, former oil minister of Saudi Arabia. Six years on Mr Yamani’s words appear to ring true more than ever before – with alternative fuels becoming a viable petroleum substitute.…

BY MARK GODFREY

THE EMPTINESS of the Giordano store in the departures terminal at massive Baiyun International Airport outside the southern Chinese megapolis of Guangzhou suggests hard times for Hong Kong’s most vaunted and ambitious apparel retailer. This is the capital of wealthy Guangzhou province after all, the manufacturing base for most of Hong Kong’s garment firms.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

IN this year’s Money Laundering Bulletin series of articles on the development of an international profession of anti-money laundering (AML) specialists, we have often examined specialists working at the sharp end. But that is not the whole story of course.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, EMMA JACKSON and ALAN OSBORN

IN the early 1990s the nuclear power industry faced a bleak outlook. High profile accidents such as in Chernobyl and Three Mile Island in, Pennsylvania, the USA, had raised public concern about the safety of the industry to all time high.…

By Leah Germain

Researchers may sometimes complain they work for peanuts, but scientists at the USA’s National Peanut Research Laboratory have shown that this is not always a bad thing: they have developed new high-tech grading methods that could dramatically boost the American peanut industry.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

IT is perhaps the ultimate irony in the anti-money laundering crusade. The industry, devoted as it is to the movement of cash and software algorithms that help track it, has no shortage of statistics detailing the numbers of suspicious transactions reported, illegal monies seized and criminals prosecuted.…

BY RUSSELL BERMAN

THE AIRPORT industry in the USA has benefited from new President Barack Obama’s sweeping stimulus package, which provided US$1.1 billion for enhancements to airport infrastructure.

Although just a small slice of the US$787 billion spending bill, funds for new construction are expected to be quickly distributed through federal Airport Improvement Program grants in a broader effort to create immediate jobs and jumpstart the ailing American economy.…

By Keith Nuthall

One of America’s richest higher education institutions – Duke University – has unveiled a business plan to help it deal with the global recession, which will see demand for student support clashing with declining revenues.

Its president Richard H.…