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BY MICHAEL KOSMIDES, IN GREECE AND GERARD O’DWYER, IN HELSINKI

MINERAL experts in Greece and Nordic countries have agreed with the verdict of the European Geosciences Union’s recent annual meeting in Vienna that the European Union (EU) should exploit rare earths reserves in Nordic countries and Greece to improve its supplies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has extended until December 2014 the right of non-European Union (EU) countries’ companies and public bodies to issue within the EU accounts that clash with international financial reporting standards (IFRS). Brussels has to be convinced their governments are moving towards using IFRS, and the move follows the expiry last December 31(2011) of a previous exemption for such accounts issuers – the new exemption has been backdated until then.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN

AS a British nurse, the opportunities to work in other countries are eased by professional agencies helping foreign nurses relocate. Yet, US nursing sector experts fear their country may be overlooked by internationally-educated nursing candidates planning on relocating because long of wait times for working permits and visas.…

BY KITTY SO, IN OTTAWA

The Canadian minister of the environment has established a three-member review panel to assess, for the second time, the environmental impact of a proposed project at one of Canada’s largest undeveloped gold-copper deposits.

Its probe will consider a proposed 20-year development of the New Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project in British Columbia, located north of Vancouver about 125 km southwest of Williams Lake, by Vancouver -based mining company Taseko.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS, IN OTTAWA

FOR a stranger living in a strange land, Louise Penny does not feel so out of place – the Toronto-born, Anglophone writer cannot imagine calling anywhere home then Québec’s Eastern Townships.

Penny, the author behind the successful Chief Inspector Armand Gamache mystery series (set primarily in the fictional Québec village of Three Pines) has drawn on her own experience as an Anglophone living in a primarily Francophone community to paint a backdrop for the majority of her works.…

BY ROBERT STOKES, IN MÁLAGA

JUST like El Dorado, the never-was city of gold, Latin America’s 390 million Spanish speakers, are a siren call to Spanish publishers, whose domestic market numbers just 46 million souls. There is even a side bet on 190 million Portuguese speaking Brazilians

Some publishers, lured by these big numbers, have tried and failed in the past, foundering on the reefs of censorship, economic and currency volatility, and the local business culture, though taking forever to get paid – if at all – should not have come as a shock to Spanish firms.…

BY JONATHAN DYSON, IN CANCÚN

SIGNS are emerging that Mexico’s textile and apparel industry is reclaiming a growing proportion of the US market as it benefits from an increasing focus on higher-value products and greater diversification. Mexico’s share of the US market, which accounts for around 55% of its textile exports and 95% of its apparel exports, dropped sharply following China’s entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2001 and its subsequent domination of the global textile and apparel market.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD AND JONATHAN DYSON, IN LIMA

SOME of world’s most coveted fibres, Vicuña, Guanaco, Alpaca and Llama, all hail from rugged Andean region in South America. Vicuña fibre, known locally and in the trade as the "gold of the Andes" and "the fabric of the gods" is a key part of the global high-end luxury market for rare and superfine fibres.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN

THE UNITED States Trade Representative (USTR) has joined forces with the European Union (EU) to press Indonesia to simplify its licensing for meat and livestock imports. The US and Canada, with the support of the EU, Brazil, New Zealand, Japan and Switzerland, have complained to the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) import licensing committee, claiming that Indonesia’s tough licensing for meat and livestock imports could seriously damage trade.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN AND MARTIN FOSTER, IN TOKYO

MOLYCORP Inc, the key United States rare earths producer, has welcomed a new partnership between the US and the Japanese government that seeks to diversify the global supply for rare earth metals. On April 30, President Obama met with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda to discuss the development of a joint critical minerals and development project – an alliance between the two countries, where they will share new technology used in the production and recycling of rare earths.…