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BY PAUL COCHRANE

Egypt protests bring disruption and uncertainty to tobacco sector

The Egyptian revolution has left the tobacco sector guessing about its future in Egypt. Will the new government rein in planned smoking restrictions? Protests disrupted tobacco manufacturing in Egypt, but the sector has recovered.…

BY CRAIG HOWIE

SINCE a ban on smoking tobacco on American naval submarines was enacted on last December 31, the number of sailors turning from cigarettes to smokeless tobacco products has boomed, a naval expert has told Tobacco Journal International.

The ban proscribes the use of all combustible tobacco products anywhere on a submarine, a tall-order for smoking sailors, given boats are submerged for up to three months at a time.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

FROM greater ease-of use to less waste, to brilliant colours, there are many benefits to solid ink printers over laser jet ones – yet, printer and printing inks manufacturers have not rushed to jump on the solid inks bandwagon.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

BEING beautiful is a full-time occupation for many Brazilians, and clothing retail necessarily benefits from their dedication – as their country grows wealthier, its luxury clothing market can only grow.

In 2010, AT Kearney rated Brazil as the number one developing apparel market in the world, due to rising incomes and a youthful population (60% under the age of 30), unusually fascinated with fashion.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

Students resist Colombia university liberalisation plans

Pacifica Goddard

University students across Colombia are in an uproar over their government’s reform plans for the country’s reform of higher education, which would allow universities to make profits and encourage them to forge partnerships with the private sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

European Union (EU) ministers today agreed to launch a safety assessment of Europe’s 143 nuclear reactors, re-checking their safety in the light of the Fukushima nuclear accidents. Speaking this afternoon following an emergency meeting of the EU Council of Ministers (energy), the meeting’s chair – Hungary’s national development minister Tamas Fellegi – said the assessment should be underway before the end of the year, and would, it was hoped, cover countries neighbouring the EU.…

BY JOHN K AGUNDA

IF there was one African country where a business forum on ethics was most appropriate, it might well be Tanzania, given its immediate post-independence history of socialism and self-reliance.

Those purist 1960s and 1970s days of former President Julius Nyerere and his ‘ujamaa’ leftism are now history, of course, with Tanzania, very much part of the gloablised liberal capitalist mainstream.…

BY MARK ROWE

LEAKED NATO documents have indicated that the prime minister and senior officials in Kosovo have close links to organised crime. That presents a daunting challenge to law enforcement officials, but their task is made more problematic by the pervasive nature of corruption in the country.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

CLOTHING and accessory consumers are fickle at the best of times, and trying to nail down their desires in the growing eco-fashion niche market is proving especially difficult as the industry moves toward environmental responsibility.

On the one hand consumers, (especially young people in mature western markets), are increasingly aware of the environmental and social footprints of fashion and textile production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IT almost seems like yesterday when European policymakers were hailing biofuels as the practical green alternative to fossil fuels, so clean – cars, vans and trucks might as well have been running on water. However, with the growing and widespread acceptance that producing many biofuels (and burning them of course) produces substantial carbon emissions, those days are well and truly over.…