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BY Karryn Miller

An innovative foreign higher education park scheme in South Korea is set to proceed, even though the worldwide recession has caused some overseas universities to postpone plans to locate branches at the Songdo Global University Campus.

Full report on University World News site.…

BY KENCHO WANGDI

HYDRO-ELECTRIC power is of critical importance to the tiny landlocked nation Bhutan, hidden deep in the folds of the Himalayas, with economic and military giants China to the north and India to the south. Indeed, its government regards hydropower energy as being instrumental in shifting the country from being recognised by the United Nations as a least developed into an emerging developing country in the south-east Asia.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

EGYPT’S garment export industry, worth US dollars USD2 billion a year, has been struggling to cope with the political crisis in its home country, with ports closed and factories working shorter hours, if at all. But factories are still producing clothing and textiles and international clients have yet to cancel orders.…

BY JULIAN RYALL

THE GOVERNMENT and private sector in Japan are amongst the strongest supporters of environment-friendly technologies and initiatives, and this include the civil aviation industry. In January 2009, a Japan Airlines (JAL) Boeing 747-400 was one of the first in the world to carry out a successful test flight using a biofuel made primarily out of non-food energy crop camelina – yet the country lags behind in the development of biofuels and, consequently, discussions on the large-scale introduction of green fuels and what that will mean for Japan’s airports.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

BY and large, European Union (EU) legislation aimed at helping nurses and other health professionals to work in European countries outside their own has worked well since the EU’s enforced mutual recognition of qualifications began in the late 1970s.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FEARS that the abolition of European Union (EU) milk production quotas in 2015 could flood markets with cheap milk and drive some producers to the wall will not be realised, the European Commission has claimed. In a food commodity forecast to 2020 released today, (January 13), the Commission concludes "quota abolition is projected to have a limited impact on milk deliveries at the aggregate EU level…" Indeed it says milk production should actually remain below the last 2015 quota cap, with production falls caused by the recent price crisis only being made up slowly.Brussels…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

OLIVE oil production in the Levantine counties of the Middle East has moved away from traditional methods to bolster exports and develop domestic sales. But where Syria has risen to be the fourth largest producer in the world, Jordan’s modernisation of the sector is being undermined by cheap smuggled olive oil from Syria, and Lebanon needs major investment to bring the sector up to speed.…

BY ANDY HOLDER

IT is a truism that fraudsters are most knowledgeable about fraud – and that to learn about the problem, the best people to learn from are those who actively obtain property through deception. But that is exactly what Britain’s Professor Martin Gill does.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

US tobacco industry concerned over ‘substantial equivalence deadline’

The Food & Drug Administration of the USA has told tobacco companies to prove that products launched or changed since 2007 are largely the same as those on sale before.…

BY ALYSSA MCMURTRY

However, not everyone is happy about the new law, especially those in the hospitality industry.

"It is awful, it’s the worst thing that has ever happened to my business," said Javier Garcia Simon, owner of Bar Café J.…