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BY MARK GODFREY

WITH the global recession raging across most of the world, Bangladesh’s knitwear sector is maintaining a strong commercial position and looks better geared to survive the economic downturn than some of its regional competitors. Orders have only dipped marginally say local knitwear producers.…

By Emma Jackson

As the recession digs deeper and major accounting scandals bubble to the surface, business and accounting teaching and training programmes across the globe are scrambling to endow a sense of ethics in their students.

Ethics have been largely ignored in many prestigious business schools, says one accountings professor at Australia’s Deakin University, Steven Dellaportas, who argues students aren’t equipped to deal with ethical dilemmas.…

BY WANG FANGQING

CHINESE manufacturers have told Soap Perfumery & Cosmetics they see no threat in the newly-effective ban, under the European Union’s (EU) revised cosmetics directive (76/768/EEC), on all the animal tested cosmetics and personal care products sold in the EU.…

BY MARK ROWE and SUZANNE KOELEGA

THE ISSUE of decommissioning rigs is an increasingly pressing one. According to consultants Wood Mackenzie up to half of the North Sea’s 600 installations – first installed nearly 40 years ago – are scheduled for decommissioning by 2021, while more than 4,000 are scheduled for removal worldwide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, EMMA JACKSON and ALAN OSBORN

Although today’s nuclear technology is used primarily to produce electricity, meeting about 14.2% of the world’s demand, the birth of nuclear power, like many technologies, was not intended for civilian use. Rather, it was used to harness a militaristic advantage at the onset of the Second World War.…

BY PHILIPPA JONES

THE NUMBER of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the skies above Europe is increasing rapidly, but safety concerns mean they normally remain segregated from other airspace users, inhibiting their employment in a wide range of activities. Eurocontrol, the European organisation for the safety of air navigation, has therefore launched a major project of work intended to ensure the safe and efficient integration of UAS into the pan-European Air Traffic Management Network (ATM).…

BY LUCY JONES

KNITWEAR featuring Barack Obama’s image stole the limelight at the Paris fashion week last autumn but whether the love will be returned to the global knitwear industry has yet to be seen.

Indeed, there is cause for concern, because Obama used protectionist rhetoric on the campaign trail.…

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 MARK ROWE

THE PRINCIPLE of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is of course well established amongst energy suppliers: polluting industries, such as coal, would be able to continue to burn fossil fuels, but carbon dioxide, rather than being expelled into the atmosphere, would be harvested in the energy production cycle and securely locked away.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

AUSTRALIA, as with the bulk of westernised nations, has classified butter as a staple food rather than a luxury item. Sales of the dairy spread have long reflected this and Aussie butter has enjoyed steady demand both locally and abroad.…