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BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, IN NEW DELHI

THE INDIAN apparel and textile industry needs to evolve and adapt quickly to overcome the changing demand patterns from its major export markets, delegates at the textile conference were told in New Delhi on Thursday.…

BY POORNA RODRIGO

The Maldives is streamlining its budding accounting sector, opening up opportunities to local and foreign accountants. A new bill to set up a legal body to regulate the accounting sector is due to be submitted to parliament soon.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) anti-fraud office OLAF is concentrating its resources, anticipating it will not receive additional spending from cash-strapped EU governments. Writing in OLAF’s latest annual report (on 2011), its director general Giovanni Kessler said: "Due to the general economic climate, the human and financial resources available to OLAF are not expected to increase in the future."…

BY POORNA RODRIGO

The South Asian archipelago of Maldives is known as an up market tourist destination. It has a population of 325,000 (2011 est.) and one third of its population live in the capital Malé, which fills one island.

The Maldives GDP stood at USD2 billion in 2011 and the economy grew by 7.5 % the same year.…

BY MARK ROWE

CROATIA has a strong tradition of knitting that features heavily in the traditions of the country’s rural hinterland and this could stand its knitwear sector in good stead for the country’s 2013 accession to the European Union (EU).…

BY ALAN OSBORN, IN LONDON, AND JULIAN RYALL, IN TOKYO

EUROPE’S carmakers are setting out tough pre-conditions to anticipated negotiations between the European Union (EU) and Japan over a free trade agreement (FTA). The two sides have just finalised a "scoping exercise" setting out goals for an FTA and the EU auto sector is laying down some red lines, worried about unfair competition if European tariffs on Japanese autos are lowered or scrapped in a free trade deal.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

THE LAST decade has seen significant developments, initiatives and legislation towards integrating biofuels and other environmentally-friendly fuel alternatives into transport and the aviation sector. But while renewable fuels are projected to have a significant stake in fuelling aircrafts going into the future, traditional kerosene jet fuel still maintains a tight grip on the industry.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

NANOMATERIALS have been finding their way into cosmetics and personal care products for years now, but until recently, the term meant different things to different manufacturers – and almost nothing to consumers. It is not until the European Commission came out with a common European Union (EU) definition for nanomaterials last October – materials whose main constituents have a dimension of between 1 billionth and 100 billionth of a metre (or 0.000000001 metre) – that cosmetics companies finally gained a clear guideline under which to define certain properties of their products.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

Implementing an ERP system is a crucial piece of the puzzle for food companies wanting to compete within the industry supply chain, going forward – this goes without question. The challenge, instead, when it comes to integrating ERP systems into the food industry, is not a matter of companies deciding whether to implement these systems or not, but what benefits they want from ERP, and what features they need from these systems.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

BEST practice regarding animal husbandry technology and veterinary science is to be shared between the European Union (EU) and China’s meat and livestock industries under a cooperation plan signed this week in Beijing. Initialled by the EU agriculture commissioner Dacian Ciolos and the Chinese agriculture minister Han Changfu, a Commission spokesman confirmed to the Meat Trades Journal that animals and animal products would be an important focus of "future joint activities to be launched and sustained under this cooperation plan."…