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New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra has highlighted its increasing focus on emerging markets, as the battle among global dairy companies for a share of markets in Asia, the Middle East and Latin America hots up. Just-food’s Jonathan Dyson spoke to Fonterra CFO Jonathan Mason as the company released its latest half-yearly results.…

THE WORLD’S first marine phosphate extraction project, offshore from Walvis Bay, in Namibia, is to be underpinned by demand from an unexpected agricultural revolution in what is the most arid country in sub-Saharan Africa and one of the driest on earth.…

IN Britain clinical research costs a whopping GBP8 billion or more annually, making up third of all research and development expenses in the economy, says the UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC) group. But clinical research nurses (CRN) who play a crucial role in such work, are in short supply.…

WHILE Alaska’s mining industry has seen impressive growth in output through 2012, with high commodity prices for gold and silver in particular boosting exploration and production, experts predict a relatively flat performance in 2013.

At the lowermost rung of the value ladder is coal, a sector adversely impacted by both slack global demand and increasing competition from alternative fuel sources.…

THE NEXT 12 months will be crucial in the positioning of Greenland as a major source of rare earth metals (REM). A general election on March 12, could give a pro-independence, pro-mining party a renewed mandate in the Danish island’s autonomous government.…

TRANSLITERATION and translation have become inescapable challenges for financial institutions and other companies striving to comply with international sanctions.

Precise identification of a sanctions target named in a foreign language is often difficult, but is essential for efficient screening of transactions that should be controlled or blocked in line with blacklists issued by national authorities (and the European Union (EU)), and those based on the comprehensive list issued by the United Nations (UN) Security Council.…

NEPAL’S ready-to-wear garment sector wants to diversify its target markets away from a past reliance on America, prompted a slump in exports, which have fallen by more than half over the past five years. The Garment Association Nepal (GAN) general secretary Ashok Kumar Agrawal blamed decreasing demand from American consumers and told just-style the industry is hoping to “diversify export markets to Australia, Canada and Japan, making use of duty free privileges while increasing exports to the EU,” where they enter duty free under the Everything But Arms deal.…

NOONE has been hanged for fraud in England since 1811, but not every country is so advanced:  today the death penalty is still applied for people convicted of fraud in China, Iran and North Korea among others. And even below the ultimate sanction, deterrents to committing fraud can look frightening in many countries of the world.…

CHINESE investors in London’s property market are becoming increasingly important players, and the signs are that the flow of Yuan into the UK capital could keep growing. Michelle Zhang, who heads up the China desk at DTZ London, said: “CIC [China Investment Corporation] would be viewed as the most active Chinese investor and now have a number of prime London property holdings;” she highlighted the Chinese sovereign fund’s recent GBP245 million purchase of Deutsche Bank headquarters Winchester House, from KanAm, undertaken alongside Invesco.…

A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel has been established to rule on whether US bans on Argentine beef imports are legal under global trade laws. Argentina’s government says the restrictions are illegal under the WTO’s general agreement on tariffs and trade (GATT) and the WTO agreement on sanitary and phytosanitary measures.…