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BY EMMA JACKSON

ONLINE book giant is Amazon is preparing to set up a physical sales infrastructure in Canada, the Bookseller can reveal. The Canadian government has called in the proposal for a confidential inquiry, which will assess whether the move breaks Canada’s tough cultural protection rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CANADA – the world’s second largest country by geography – was created because of luxury clothing: the fur trade drove French and British explorers to its remote interior, creating ports and processing hubs, now major cities, such as Montréal and Toronto.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE SMARTER the authorities become at tackling money laundering via wire transfers and other electronic methodologies, the greater the attraction of physical cash as a means of secretly moving illicit money – or so one would suppose. Commonsense dictates that such a money laundering trend is ongoing at the moment, but nobody can be quite sure about the extent or the cause of it, not even those at the very top of the AML sector.…

BY MARK GODFREY

IT has not traditionally featured on prospectors’ radar but Mongolia is quickly emerging as an Asian oil exporter. Thanks to rising oil demand from China, the Petroleum Authority of Mongolia has inked production-sharing agreements on 12 oil fields with explorers from north America, Australia and China.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

CANADA’S 1,197-kilometre Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline has taken a major step towards being built, with a Canadian government joint review panel concluding it would be economically beneficial and "avoid significant adverse environmental impacts". Its recommendations make it more likely Canada’s National Energy Board will approve the Northwest Territories to Alberta link.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

WHEN Mexico’s economy faced a sharp decline last year, few industries were spared – tobacco included. A downturn in the world economy teamed with a slew of factors made a dent in the country’s tobacco sales. But in spite of this tobacco companies have remained positive.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA

INTRODUCTION

"INDIA can emerge as a leader in the global food processing industry," said Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in December 2009 while addressing a conference of food processing ministers of different Indian states in New Delhi, noting the country’s US$100 billion food processing sector grew by 14.7% in 2009.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

MUCH like the rest of the world, the cosmetics industry has been swept up in the push to provide green packaging, and the global recession does not appear to have stopped this market segment from performing healthily. In 2009 alone, environmentally responsible packaging sales were worth more than US$88 billion dollars globally, 20% of the total packaging market, according to US-based clean technology analyst Pike Research.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

A SWIFT rise in the price of south Asian cotton yarn has forced closures in Bangladesh’s US$6.43 billion knitwear export sector and pushed some manufacturers to the brink as the whole industry struggles to overcome the costing problem.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IF a global poll was taken to identify the best known international organisation, the Egmont Group would be lucky to get a mention, despite it linking 116 financial intelligence units (FIU) worldwide.

It is partly to raise profile that the group last June appointed its first chair, Luis Urrutia, who heads Mexico’s FIU.…