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BY KEITH NOYAHR, in Colombo

AIRLINE operators this week reviewed security at Sri Lanka’s Katunayake International Airport (KIA) days ahead of resuming night flights – suspended for two months since air attacks by the Tamil Tigers.

Its air defence has been made fully operational while Indian experts upgraded the radar system recently after the separatist Tigers in March dropped bombs from Czech-built ZLIN Z 143 aircraft on the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) base, adjoining the airport.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE

INDONESIA’S paint and coatings industry continues to develop, with growth in sectors being led by increases in exports of furniture, and the introduction of new coatings products and systems.

Overall increased domestic demand for paints and coatings in Indonesia has led some companies to expand.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) internal market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has welcomed the creation of regular cooperation between the EU and the Chinese government on introducing international accounting standards in China. Speaking after meeting Chinese officials in Beijing, he noted an EU-China joint statement where both sides "agreed to strengthen bilateral communication and cooperation on developing and implementing accounting standards".…

BY MARK ROWE, in Xian, China

THE FACE that China’s museum sector presents to the world might have looked very different had a farm labourer chosen another part of a remote field near the city of Xian in 1974 to dig a well.…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg, South Africa and DAVID HAWORTH, in Taiwan

TRADITIONAL health care systems do not always get a good press, being accused of incorporating superstition and poor medical practice. To some western public health advocates, they are akin to bringing back the leach.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

THE COSMETICS and toiletries market in the Middle East is booming with 12% growth expected this year in a US$2.1 billion sector. Market trends differ from country to country, but the general trend is rising demand for European cosmetics over local products in the wealthier Arab countries, largely due to aggressive marketing campaigns by the major brands, and high demand for unregistered, fake brand name perfumes in countries with sizeable low-income populaces, such as Egypt, Lebanon and Syria.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EU has abandoned plans to impose protective safeguard duties on imports from China of frozen strawberries. This follows the withdrawal of a complaint by Poland. Chinese strawberry producers however could now face an EU anti-dumping duty instead, following a replacement investigation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SPANISH consumer protection authorities have banned the import of a China-made toy novelty make-up set branded ‘Royal Make-up’ and ‘Geoffrey’. It has alerted the European Commission’s RAPEX unsafe product warning system that the set has unsafe mesophilic aerobic microorganisms, mould and yeast contamination counts, breaking the European Union cosmetics and toys directives and Spanish national rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has approved linking the European Union’s (EU) design protection system to that run globally by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). This will formally tie the EU’s design protection regulation to WIPO’s Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement concerning the international registration of industrial designs.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN researchers are helping build a biodiesel plant in Hangzhou, China. The universities of Milan, Jaen (in Spain), and Cordoba are working with China’s University of Tianjin and the University of Malaya to build a plant fuelled by locally available animal or vegetable matter.…