Search Results for: China

BY GAVIN BLAIR, in Tokyo

THOUGH the number of academic specialists in commercial crime in the Asia-Pacific region may be fewer than in the US or Europe, many of the leading figures are both willing to work with corporate clients and have a great deal of experience outside the ivory towers.…

BY MARK GODFREY, in Hong Kong and Beijing

HONG Kong’s proximity and constitutional links to mainland China has ensured boon times for the local financial services industry, while also creating problems for local money laundering watchdogs.

The special administrative region’s central banking regulator the Hong Kong Monetary Authority in February announced that it would ensure a "major supervisory focus" on money laundering and terrorist financing during 2008.…

BY DOMINIQUE PATTON, in Beijing, RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi, and KEITH NUTHALL

TIME was when the Chinese clothing industry was all about exports. But the astonishing success of China’s export industry has inspired competitors, making life harder for its exporters.…

BY MARK GODFREY, in Beijing

METHANE recovery is a boom industry in China. A frenetic dig for coal to drive its economy means atmospheric concentrations of methane are growing. And this is a problem – methane is not only a greenhouse gas that retains 25 times more heat than carbon dioxide, it hangs around in the atmosphere a lot longer.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Tripoli and Beirut

THE MARKET for cosmetics and toiletries in North Africa has been growing annually by a steady 5-6% over the last five years according to market participants and official data. Overall market value for the five countries – Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco – combined is more difficult to come by due to a dearth of data, but reasonable estimates put it slightly above US$1 billion, less than half the value of the Middle East and Gulf markets.…

BY LUCY JONES, in Dallas; ALAN OSBORN, in London; KARRYN CARTELLE, in Tokyo; BILL CORCORAN, in Johannesburg; PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut; RACHEL JONES, in Caracas; MARK ROWE; and KEITH NUTHALL

WITH the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round being slow to proceed since its 2001 launch – and only this year approaching something resembling and end game – free traders wanting to encourage global commerce have looked to bilateral and regional trade deals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed lifting a definitive antidumping duty of 34.9% imposed in 2006 on imports into the European Union (EU) of tartaric acid from China, for a special variant used in the pharmaceutical industry. This follows CU Chemie Uetikon, a German importer, claiming type D tartaric acid was substantially different from other tartaric acid, and used differently (for medicine manufacturing chemical synthesis), while most tartaric acids help make food, drink and plaster.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the UK government that it intends to build a new generation of nuclear power plants stands out, not just because of the scale of the proposals, but because it is the first such comprehensive initiative in Europe for some years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered compulsory GM-free certification for a wide range of Chinese rice products, because of concerns unauthorised illicit exports of the genetically modified Bt63 have been sold into Europe. From April 15, only consignments tested by an official or accredited laboratory using a specific testing method and accompanied by an analytical report assuring they do not contain Bt63, can enter the EU.…

BY KARRYN CARTELLE, in Auckland; LUCY JONES, in Dallas, Texas; MONICA

DOBIE, in Ottawa; and BILL CORCORAN, in Johannesburg

NEW Zealand has long retained a position of prominence in the global butter products

industry, despite the fact that competitors are always looking to seize export markets in

what is an increasingly competitive market.…