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INTERNATIONAL REPORT ON FOOD AND DRINK REGULATORS WORLDWIDE
BY ALAN OSBORN
STANDFIRST
Every country has its own food and drink regulatory body or bodies: in the first place to ensure that its citizens eat safely and in the second to help safeguard its position in the rapidly-growing world food trade.…
CHINA WINE SECTOR PUSHING AHEAD AS GROWING MIDDLE CLASS DEVELOPS TASTE SOPHISTICATION
BY MARK GODFREY
BARRY Lee is probably typical of Chinese wine drinkers. The auto-sales accountant started off drinking a local Great Wall red at an office lunch, then got curious and went to a Beijing branch of the French Carrefour supermarket chain where he spent RMB78 (US$11.40) on a bottle of Chilean red.…
ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING IS BECOME A PROFESSION, BUT A UNIVERSAL MODEL IS FAR AWAY
BY ALAN OSBORN
A RELATIVE newcomer has joined the ranks of the world’s professionals in the financial services sphere – the anti-money laundering practitioner. True, not everybody would agree that he or she warrants a place up there with accountants, lawyers and the other traditional professionals.…
Roman Polanski case highlights the global politics of extradition
By Katherine Dunn
The travails of Roman Polanski in Switzerland this autumn have offered some lessons to the world’s wanted over extradition laws and how to deal with them. The Polish director has of course been living in France, with little fear of extradition, since 1978, when he fled the USA facing statutory rape charges.…
BOOM TIME FOR BANGLADESH KNITWEAR INDUSTRY
BY PAUL COCHRANE
BANGLADESH’S knitwear sector is undergoing unprecedented growth: averaging 24% per year over the past 12 years, and an astonishing 45% in the first three months of this fiscal year, with exports projected to reach US$10 billion by 2011.…
BANGLADESHI CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS EXPANDING FAST, DESPITE GLOBAL RECESSION
BY PAUL COCHRANE
BANGLADESH’S clothing and ready made garment sector is undergoing unprecedented expansion, registering an average growth of 20% year on year, and with plans to be one of the top three exporters globally by 2013.
In the first four months of Bangladesh’s fiscal year, from July to September 2008, the sector reported 45% growth in exports of woven and knitwear to US$3.35 billion, according to the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exports Association (BGMEA).…
EU-AUSTRALIA WINE DEAL EXPANDED AND SIGNED
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Australia have signed a wine trade agreement, having expanded its scope to protect Bulgarian and Romanian producers. Because these countries joined the EU in January 2007, they were excluded from the text of the agreement concluded later that year.…
EU-AUSTRALIA WINE DEAL EXPANDED TO PROTECT BULGARIAN AND ROMANIAN PRODUCERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has expanded the scope of the European Union’s (EU) wine agreement with Australia to protect Bulgarian and Romanian producers. Because these countries joined the EU in January 2007, they were excluded from the agreement concluded later that year.…
CONDUCTIVE PLASTICS RESEARCH CENTRE LAUNCHED IN AUSTRALIA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
HIGH technology plastics that act as conductors will be developed by a Centre for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE), which opened at the University of Queensland, Australia, this week (Mon Nov 17). The US$7 million purpose-built centre will bring together almost 40 scientists specialising in chemistry and physics.…
EU-AUSTRALIA WINE DEAL EXPANDED TO PROTECT BULGARIAN AND ROMANIAN PRODUCERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has expanded the scope of the European Union’s (EU) wine agreement with Australia to protect Bulgarian and Romanian producers. Because these countries joined the EU in January 2007, they were excluded from the text of the agreement concluded later that year.…