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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved a cooperation deal struck with the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), involving the UN agency and the EU working more closely together on aviation safety and security, air traffic management, and environmental protection.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project is plotting a standardisation of Chinese traditional medicine, so it can gain greater acceptance in Europe. The GP-TCM project has been allotted Euro EUR995,100 in Brussels money, with researchers from China, 13 EU member states, Australia, Canada, Norway, Thailand and the USA assessing the status of these medicines worldwide.…

BY MARK GODFREY

IF uranium suppliers are looking for reasons to feel confident that China will continue its hunt for nuclear fuel supplies worldwide, they should remember how deeply the country is invested in this process. Indeed, it has been a sign of how hungry China has become for uranium that even private firms in this officially communist country are being allowed to hunt for overseas uranium assets.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

At first sight the World Health Organisation (WHO) might be thought a tad hypocritical in waging a campaign against tobacco smoking through its Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) but leaving out of it any action against the smoke from open fireplaces in bars, hotels and restaurants.…

BY MARK GODFREY

China’s nuclear story began in Daya Bay, where two 944MW reactors designed and built by Framatone (now Areva) came online in 1993. By 2010, China had 9GW of installed nuclear power generating capacity. The government wants this figure to grow, but departments differ about how much is achievable and when.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF

For some it was a total disaster, for others a bump in the road, but the recession left no part of the clothing and textile retail sector unscathed. World Trade Organisation (WTO) statistics from 2009 show that while globally important manufacturing jurisdictions such as China and the European Union (EU) suffered 11% and 15% drops respectively in clothing exports, countries such as India, Vietnam and Bangladesh lost just a couple of percentage points and in India’s case, exports remained stable.…

BY MARK ROWE

FOR the cosmetics and personal care product sector, the provenance of their ingredients can be important for marketing, and this is particularly the case for bio-based oil and fats. With growing consciousness about the environmental impact of their production and the cultivation of their feedstocks, the personal care sector – a key client of the oils and fats industry – is looking hard at who supplies its ingredients.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CANADIAN government agencies have announced seven research projects on regenerative medicine and nanomedicine will received Canadian dollars CAD16 million (US dollars USD16.2 million) in public funding. The studies will be co-funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Canadian Space Agency – they will focus on multiple sclerosis, cancer, diabetes, spinal cord injuries, strokes and vascular diseases.…

BY MARK GODFREY

IT is a sign of how hungry China has become for uranium that even private firms here are being allowed hunt for overseas uranium assets. New to the uranium market, Sichuan-based conglomerate Hanlong Energy joined a string of state-run procuring companies late last year when it invested US dollars USD5 million in Australia’s Marenica to dig for uranium in Namibia.…

BY MARK ROWE and KEITH NUTHALL

A NANOTECHNOLOGY company claims to have produced anti-counterfeiting security devices so cheap, it has broken through the cost issue bedevilling the use of nanopatterns to prevent counterfeiters copying banknotes, theatre tickets and other valuable documents.…