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By Alan Osborn

FEW things say more about the growing enthusiasm for nuclear power than the rush of young students eager to make a career in the industry. It is happening mainly in America but other countries are now beginning to see the same development.…

By Paul Cochrane

The old dictum goes – ‘one man’s loss is another man’s gain’. Curiously, in a globalised world in the midst of a financial downturn, this saying is particularly true, with certain countries unexpectedly benefiting from an otherwise near universal crisis.…

By ALAN OSBORN

For long the Cinderella of the engineering industry, nuclear power appears to be regaining its popularity as a career choice with a surprising increase in university courses, mainly but not exclusively in the US. In some countries, like France, enthusiasm has never faltered and a clear career pattern in nuclear sciences has been established for years.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF, in Lucca, Italy; PHILIPPA JONES, in Paris; DOMINIQUE PATTON, in Beijing; KARRYN CARTELLE, in Tokyo; and LUCY JONES, in Dallas

Where is the best cutting edge research for the textile and clothing industry? Which are the best design schools, the best fabric developers and the best industrial innovators in the sector?…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

PLAYERS serving the US$900 million Bangladeshi tobacco market have contracted over the past several years from 15 companies to just seven – with Dhaka Tobacco and British American Tobacco (BAT) now joint number one companies in terms of quantity.…

BY RUSSELL BERMAN

THE US president-elect, Barack Obama, will take office later this month (Jan 20) having promised sweeping changes to America’s energy policy. This includes aggressive regulations on carbon emissions to combat climate change and substantially increased government funding for alternative energy with the aim of creating a new "green" sector of the American economy devoted to the development of renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean coal and other sources.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS world leaders gather in Washington for tomorrow’s key G20 meeting, key negotiators within the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round have suggested a deal could be struck by Christmas. The European Union (EU) and possibly the United States are expected pressure India, China and others to strike a Doha deal this year at the summit.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CHINA and the European Union (EU) have signed an updated memorandum of understanding on improving food product and ingredient safety cooperation and guarantees. Negotiated following China’s milk powder contamination scandal, the new agreement provides for joint enforcement actions where EU and China health inspectors carry out coordinated and simultaneous checks on particular food sectors to check product safety standards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ACCOUNTING systems of six major economies are equivalent to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) as adopted by the European Union (EU), the European Securities Committee has ruled. One aim of ensuring the USA, Japan, China, Canada, South Korea and India adopt common worldwide Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAPs) is to help detect fraud in multi-jurisdiction listed company balance sheets.…

BY MONIKA HANLEY

LATVIA’S textile and clothing industry is being hit hard in the recent reversal of the country’s economic fortunes, as competitors in the labour-intensive industry either close down or move production to cheaper locations.

In the first 10 months of 2008, the output of Latvian textile and clothing companies declined by approximately 7%-10%, most of it in the last few months, said the Latvian Association of Textile and Clothing Industry.…