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BY MARK ROWE
INTERNATIONAL cosmetics companies are increasingly casting an eye over south-east Asia. In the middle of the first decade of the 21st Century it would appear to offer all things to all companies.

With Asia (including nearby China) representing half of the world’s population and an economic growth rate ranging between 5 and 10%, many companies are interested in entering or developing these markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is catching up with the United States in innovation, a European Commission-financed statistical report has claimed, although the US still has many significant advantages. This year’s European Innovation Scoreboard (2006) concludes: “The innovation gap between the EU [minus new members Bulgaria and Romania] and Japan, and in particular with the US is decreasing.”…

BY ANDREW SALMON, in Seoul
LAST October, South Korea was admitted as an observer to the world’s premier group of money laundering fighters – the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and given the nation’s recent moves to strengthen its anti-money laundering regime its path to full membership in approximately two years appears smooth.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
America has begun a round of intensive lobbying to head off an EU proposal that from 2012 all foreign airlines be included in a emissions trading scheme. Under the plan, airlines would be allocated pollution allowances each year – if they exceed these they will be obliged to buy carbon credits from other airlines.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in New York
QUESTION

GLOBAL warming is destroying the ice cap habitat of the Arctic’s iconic polar bear. Recently, the Bush administration proposed that the polar bear should be added the US ‘threatened’ species list because warming temperatures are melting ice flows where bears hunt seals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THINK of Latin American mines, and political and industrial
relations instability springs to mind. Pictures of poncho’d Bolivian Amerindians demonstrating against poor conditions,
hurling rocks at robocops armed to the teeth….

The truth is that the mining industry often gets a bad rap in Latin America and, to be honest, it has often been run poorly, especially in environmental terms.…

BY WESLEY GIBBINGS, in Port of Spain, Trinidad

THE WHITTLING away of preferential export markets for traditional Caribbean agricultural production has sparked economic pain in the region, but it has also generated innovation in the form of new confectionary and sweet baked products, available for export.…

BY MARK ROWE

AUSTRALIA is developing a reputation as a leading producer and supplier of premium organic extra virgin olive oil. Kailis Organic (SPELLING CORRECT) predicts it will generate GB Pounds 26 million (US$51.48 million) in exports annually from the oil within seven years, citing huge growth in demand from North America.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

THE FIRST real-data study on the shark fin trade has estimated that 38 million sharks are killed annually: significantly higher than the 10 million accepted by the UN, although lower than the 100 million of some rough estimates.…

BY JAMES FULLER, in Port of Spain

CRICKETERS and illegally-licensed drivers are two of the more unusual factors currently affecting the Caribbean paint market.

The impending Cricket World Cup, to be held in the West Indies during March and April 2007, has spawned a flurry of construction activity with resultant benefits for the paint industry.…