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Sandy Grant, CEO of Australia’s Hardie Grant, has told The Bookseller that he has bought British publisher Quadrille not only to fully participate in an increasingly global marketplace but to also fight the predators in the book market.

“Years ago I was told if your business is going to be cannibalised you should do it yourself.…

THE WIDESPREAD disruption to European air-travel caused by the dramatic large-scale volcanic eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in March 2010 has prompted close assessments of air traffic control procudures in countries with significant seismic activity.

The 2010 disruption was a costly experience for airlines and air-passenger traffic.…

A team of Japanese scientists has developed a coating that makes use of rare earth elements to change its colour at different temperatures.

Yasuchika Hasegawa, a professor of materials chemistry at Hokkaido University, has been working on a project that he terms his “chameleon light emitter” for more than two years and is presently in discussions with a number of Japanese companies about collaborative projects to determine the best applications for the new technology.…

When Australia’s recently deposed Prime Minister Julia Gillard decided to announce that there was to be a challenge in the ruling Labor Party on her leadership, she did it in a one-to-one interview with Sky News Australia – and not with ABC 24 News, Australia’s publicly-funded, round-the-clock news channel.…

*An equally owned joint venture of Nine Digital, a division of Nine Entertainment Co., Seven Media Group, both Australian, and British Sky Broadcasting;

*Owns and operates Sky News Australia, Australia’s and New Zealand’s leading pay TV 24-hour news channel, available in more than 2.5 million homes and locations across both countries;

*Launched its news service on February 19th 1996, becoming the first Australian produced television news channel;

*Delivers content across all digital media platforms, including 3G mobile, podcasts, SMS and online, producing a wide range of digital news services, including Sky News Australia, Sky News New Zealand, Sky News Now for mobiles, Sky News Podcasts and Sky News Online;

*Began broadcasting Sky News Active, its on-demand interactive TV news service in 2004.…

PHARMACEUTICAL companies supplying Timor-Leste will have their distribution networks within this island country strengthened through a USD17.7 million healthcare system improvement grant from the World Bank, Australia and the European Union (EU). A World Bank communiqué said the money would fund a ‘National Health Sector Strategic Plan – Support Project’, to run until 2015, which builds on a USD20 million healthcare improvement project that was funded by the bank and Australia alone.…

Although it has been the subject of intense speculation over recent years, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tagging has fulfilled many of the predictions made by industry forecasters more than 10 years ago, when pilots of wide scale deployment by giant department store retailers began.…

The 9.5MW J920 FleXtra gas engine formally installed in May this year by the municipal utility Stadtwerke Rosenheim, in Bavaria, Germany, ticks off a number of important innovations. The largest gas engine yet developed by the Austrian company GE Jenbacher, the unit is seen by the company as an illustration of the role distributed energy is now playing in Germany’s ‘Energiewende’ – the country’s policy to halt all nuclear power by 2022 and replace it with natural gas, renewable energy, and greater use of energy efficient technologies.…

A much anticipated meeting of the Chinese leadership in October may offer the clearest timetable yet for the internationalisation of China’s currency, the Chinese Yuan Renminbi (CNY). Full convertibility of the Chinese currency is a stated goal of government here but progress has sometimes been slow, though suggestions from economists in Beijing indicate the currency may be fully convertible by 2017.…

AFTER 10 hard years of negotiations, Croatia finally became the European Union (EU)’s 28th member state on July 1, a move that will inevitably open its financial and related services markets to major EU companies and partnerships. One key issue for European financial professionals has been, and will be, the extent to which Croatian business and government is clean.…