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BY MARK GAO, IN BEIJING

A less than flattering catch-call has lately become attached to China’s Communist Party elite: ‘Luoguan’, literally "naked officials", refers to officials whose spouses and children have migrated to another country, spending Chinese money abroad, some of it dirty, or transferred illicitly.…

BY HELEN CLARK, IN HANOI

Investors often hold their noses about corruption in emerging markets. But countries such as Vietnam attract even more investment if they were cleaner. Helen Clark reports from Hanoi.

VIETNAM in the past 12 months appears to have embarked on a house-cleaning exercise, with police arresting a series of executives for a range of financial offences.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS, IN CALGARY

A SHORTAGE of nurses in Canada following several years of health care restructuring and hospital downsizing could mean an abundance of opportunities for British professionals, who are willing to make the hop across the pond.

"In certain regions of the country there’s an acute shortage of medical doctors, nurses and other practitioners, and those shortages will only grow as our population ages.…

BY ROB STOKES

THE ORGANISATION for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has castigated France and Australia for failing to prosecute local businesses bribing foreign officials since criminalising these acts in 2000 under the OECD convention of combating bribery of foreign public officials in international business transactions.…

BY CONNLA STOKES, IN HO CHI MINH CITY

As one of the world’s fastest-growing accountancy bodies, ACCA is attracting more finance and management professionals in Asia eager to get to the top. This is certainly the case for Shanghai, China-born Katherine Wu.…

BY MARK ROWE

WHEN the European Union (EU) set up the world’s first carbon trading market in 2001, the Emissions Trading System (ETS), advocates heralded a new dawn: carbon pollution could be brought under control in a way that benefited the environment while not damaging industrial interests.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, IN NEW DELHI

INDIA will become the largest exporter of beef in the world in 2012, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has concluded in its latest report ‘Livestock and Poultry-World Market and Trade 2012’. The fact creates a rather ironic situation as cows are considered holy by India’s majority Hindu population and killing them can actually lead to a seven years prison sentence.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, IN LONDON

Professor Guido Rasi, executive director of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), has told Manufacturing Chemist of his concerns about the availability of medicines in the European Union (EU).

Speaking in his office at EMA headquarters in London’s Canary Wharf, Professor Rasi said EMA wanted "to see what role we can play and what counsel we can give in respect of the problem of the (drug) shortages."…

BY MARIANI DEWI

BRANCH campuses of established western universities can be major prizes for emerging market higher education systems – but attracting these institutions is not easy, even for economically dynamic countries such as Malaysia.

There are still only six branch campuses in this south-east Asian country.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

CLOTHING labels worldwide are usually a standard read, with fibre names such as ‘cotton,’ ‘nylon’ and ‘polyester’ – apparel compositions which remain generally constant from season to season. When it comes to luxury textiles and apparel, however, there seem to be more evolving trends in terms of fibres used – along with more dynamic changes in supply and demand.…