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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is signing a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese government, which will see Brussels spend money on helping China’s coal-fired power stations install emissions capture and storage equipment. It is being initialled by European Union (EU) energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs at the sixth EU-China energy conference, held in Shanghai this week (20-21 Feb).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROBAROMETER FOOD POLL

WHEN EU consumers think of food, more associate it with "taste" – 31%, than with "pleasure" – 29%, "hunger" – 27%, "health" – 19% and "necessity" – 15%, said a new opinion poll from EU survey organisation Eurobarometer.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE COUNTRIES of eastern and southern Africa pose two particularly serious challenges for the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the world’s leading anti money laundering agency, according to Alain Damais, the organisation’s executive secretary. In an interview with the Money Laundering Bulletin, he also discussed developments in money laundering typologies, the progress made by China towards becoming an FATF member and EU legislation designed to thwart laundering.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IF there was ever a region where a mining company could build an open cast gold mine without being bothered by environmental activists, it surely has to be deepest Siberia. Lightly populated, full of scrappy forest, and often scenically uninspiring, this vast region almost seems designed for industries deemed undesirable by wildlife-loving urbanites.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

PARIS (ICIS News)–The European Union (EU) Council of Ministers has imposed definitive 34.9% anti-dumping duties on imports of tartaric acid originating in China. One company will be exempted from the duties, because European Commission inquiries found its dumping levels to be slight: Hangzhou Bioking Biochemical Engineering Co.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THE MEDIA rush to pick up on the revival of nuclear energy as a serious UK option, made plain in the Department of Trade and Industry’s recent Energy Review consultation document, has diverted attention from which tail will, in practice, be wagging the UK energy dog over the coming months.…

BY DAVID EIMER, in Beijing

TO be beautiful in China is to be fair-skinned and for cosmetics companies, that’s an opportunity to tap the world’s largest emerging market for whitening creams. According to Chinese government figures, China’s beauty and cosmetics market was worth between 42 and 46 billion Yuan (US$5-5.5 billion) last year and a third of that total was spent on whitening products.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney

RECENT positive advances in the paint and coatings industry symbolise general satisfaction with Malaysia’s business outlook. It might not have the cheapest labour in Asia but the workforce is skilled, productive and highly competitive. Access to infrastructure (especially ports) for exports is also reported to be good.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

OUT of 60 recommendations made in a report last December by the European Parliament on strategies to prevent human trafficking only one specifically mentioned money laundering and even there the message was essentially "carry on as before" and "keep your eyes open".…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THEY may take a few years to come into effect, but binding international rules now under discussion, to cover ship recycling will "green" the dirty and unacceptable face of an unregulated industry notorious for environmental damage and appalling working conditions.…