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BY ANDREW CAVE

WITH scientific evidence of global fish depletion, governments and the fishing industry worldwide might be expected find common cause around ensuring sustainable resources will still exist in future years.

That’s not exactly how the response to fisheries sustainability has been framed, however.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LARGE mining companies take the environment seriously today, maybe rather more than in times past. They are devoting significant resources to reducing or mitigating the environmental problems caused by mining. But what about the small and artisanal mines that pepper much of the developing world?…

BY ANDREW CAVE

SCARCELY a week goes by without volumes of newsprint or prime broadcasting slots being devoted to new and ingenious ways of mitigating climate change.

Global warming is now widely regarded the single most important issue the world faces, so it is no surprise that it is exercising the minds of the world’s most creative scientists.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NUMBER of counterfeit cigarettes seized at the external borders of the European Union (EU) fell 63% in 2007 compared to the previous year, the European Commission has concluded. Brussels said 27.1 million packets worth (20 stick equivalent) of counterfeit cigarettes were seized.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Addis Ababa

ETHIOPIA is trying to position itself as a sourcing destination for the textile and apparel industry, but government projections of a US$500 million-a-year turnover (IS THAT RIGHT – SURELY IT CANNOT BE EXPORTS?) sector by 2008/2009 are lagging way behind, with exports of just US$12.6 million in 2007.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi; SAEED AKHTAR BALOCH, in Lahore; and KEITH NOYAHR, in Colombo

THE SOUTH Asian knitwear industry is experienced mixed fortunes at present, with the impact of China’s production boom and the global liberalisation of the textile sector still changing sub-continental fortunes.…

BY MIRANDA L. LI , in Shanghai

AGE spots are the first signs of aging among Asian women, while Caucasian Europeans and Americans suffer much earlier from wrinkles. This was one of the main findings presented during a symposium on the latest research on skin aging, according to Eric Perrier, president of French luxury group Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH) Recherche, which organised the May 12 forum in Shanghai, China.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TRANSPARENCY International, the business and government openness campaigner, has attacked international oil companies for being secretive about commercial dealings. The body rated 42 leading oil and gas firms operating in 21 countries, finding a "lack of data on oil and gas revenues and how they are managed", fuelling mismanagement and possible graft.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Commission report has highlighted how China is expected to become an increasingly huge export market for food producers, already (in 2006) having a US$6.1 billion agricultural trade deficit.

With "imports are expected to grow faster than exports", this deficit (which includes non-food fibre crops) "is expected to grow over the next 10 years" financed by its huge trade surplus in manufactured non-food goods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has hailed as a model a Portuguese scheme that retrained 1,700 unemployed workers in computer, Internet and telecommunications skills after losing jobs from the country’s textile and clothing sector.

Vladimir Spidla, the European Union’s (EU) social affars Commissioner praised the system at a conference staged near Porto by CITEVE, a private high-technology textiles and clothing group.…