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BY WANG FANGQING

THE GLOBAL recession has forced China, whose economy relies largely on exports, to turn to boosting its domestic economy with a budget as huge as four trillion Chinese Yuan – RMB (US$ 585 billion) being unveiled last November by the central government.…

BY JAMES BURNS

THE LAST jurisdiction to outlaw yellow margarine finally got in line with the rest of the world last July when the Quebec provincial government in Canada repealed a 21-year-old law forbidding the sale of yellow margarine.

This marked the end of North America’s official long-standing antipathy towards the popular fat.…

BY MARK GODFREY

THE BUREAUCRATS and engineers who run China’s booming hydropower sector will be in listening mode in April when the world descends on Beijing for the second International Conference on Hydropower Technology & Equipment. The theme of this year’s government-sponsored gathering – ‘Sustainable China Hydropower Industry’ – reflects worries about the environmental impact of recent massive hydropower projects in China.…

By Keith Nuthall

A major IT company has teamed up with a Canadian open university to establish a research centre that will create bespoke three dimensional virtual learning environments.

Sun Microsystems of Canada Inc. has announced the creation of a new Immersive Technologies for Education Centre of Excellence at Athabasca University, Canada’s Alberta-based open university.…

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.…

BY MARK ROWE

FOR the past 10 years, the message from the environmental movement has been "biofuels good, fossil fuels bad". And the search for alternatives has exercised many industries, not least the cosmetics sector, which widely uses mineral oils, but has increasingly been looking for ways to use bio-based oils and fats.…

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.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

A STUDY on a groundbreaking universal influenza immunisation programme in Ontario has concluded that mass flu shots dramatically reduce mortality rates and health care costs.

The research published in US-based Public Library of Science compiled hospital data from 1997-2004 from all provinces in Canada.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MEDICINE is not supposed to be tasty, or even tolerable to drink. But now scientists are suggesting that hypertension sufferers should proactively inhale one of life’s more unpleasant aromas – the common-or-garden fart.

Yes, researchers discover all manner of bizarre facts, and this has to be one of the weirdest.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE MIDDLE East and North Africa region (that economists like to award the acronym ‘MENA’) consumes 6% of the global vegetable oil market and sucks in 15% of global imports, with strong growth across the board on the back of rising per capita GDP and a burgeoning population.…