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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN plant sector could benefit significantly from a new South Korea-European Union (EU) trade agreement, the European Commission has revealed. Duties on construction equipment made in South Korea and exported to the EU will vanish upon ratification of the agreement.…

BY KARRYN MILLER, KEITH NUTHALL and ALAN OSBORN

DESPITE following the global trend of increasing anti-smoking campaigns and placing stronger warning labels on cigarette packets, tobacco sales in South Korea are not declining. In fact, the industry has seen a slow but steady rise in total sales over the last few years.…

By Paul Cochrane

In an age of mass migration on a global scale, is it possible for governments to impose on the public, particularly immigrants, what they can and cannot wear? Take the diktats on women’s wear in France versus Iran.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPOL’s Organised Crime Threat Assessments have not always contained a wealth of detailed useful information – but its 2009 report shows how crime groups are adopting innovative technology and organisational skills: international business should take note. Keith Nuthall reports.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

MEDICINE is meant to treat disease, kill viruses and save lives, but the chemicals used to make pharmaceuticals can sometimes do more harm than good – when they are used to make illicit narcotics and psychotropic drugs.

Illicit drug makers have long targeted the global pharmaceutical industry to source their products’ ingredients to help manufacture illicit street drugs including cocaine, heroin, ecstacy and methamphetamines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

GENERAL Motors wastes Euro 9.8 billion’s worth of environmental and social costs compared to a notional industry average, a new international assessment on auto industry sustainability has claimed. This follows the largest such statistical exercise ever undertaken, carried out by experts from Queen’s University, Belfast, in Northern Ireland; the Euromed Management School, Marseilles, France; and the Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment (IZT), Berlin.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

‘OUT of sight, out of mind’ may have worked for chemical cleanups in the 1950s, but now Swiss researchers have discovered banned chemicals used more than 50 years ago are turning up in glacial lake sediments through climate change-induced glacial melting.…

By Emma Jackson

‘Out of sight, out of mind’ may have worked for chemical cleanups in the 1950s, but now Swiss researchers from several national institutes have discovered that long-banned chemicals are popping back into view – turning up in glacial lake sediments at levels not seen since they were in use over 50 years ago.…

By Katherine Dunn and Alan Osborn, International News Services

Has President Obama lost it? Many Americans are now saying so following the slump in his public approval ratings in recent months. Few presidents were elected with such jubilation as Mr Obama last November, and not just in America. He rode the crest of an unprecedented worldwide wave of acclaim to the presidency. Now the criticism and backbiting has begun.

Is it just the traditional end of the honeymoon, as all new American presidents have suffered? Or is there a more serious factor here – a chilling realisation that there was nothing much behind the hype?  

Obama’s popularity was ramped up to such an extent that the whole world – not just America – felt that something truly historical had occurred.…

 By Mark Rowe

As with the Arctic – where sea ice is disappearing faster than most scientists had anticipated - Antarctica is thought to hold fossil fuel resources, along with new drugs, industrial compounds and some commercial applications.