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BY MARK GODFREY

A COLLAPSE in demand for premium baijiu, China’s fiery clear rice wine-based spirits, may suggest investments already made by multinational drinks firms were ill-timed. A battering for China’s export-driven economy has badly dented sales at premium producers like Wuliangye and Maotai.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

UPDATED detailed guidelines have been issued for Arctic oil and gas exploration and extraction projects taking into account the region’s punishing, yet delicate environment.

They have been released by the Arctic Council, which represents countries with Arctic territory: Canada, Denmark (through its Greenland dependency), Iceland, Finland, Russia, Sweden, Norway and the USA.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

WITH a quarter of the world’s reserves the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the most influential member of OPEC and able to put an extra two million barrels of oil on the international markets within days. But the kingdom is notoriously opaque about its oil policy and reserves, with decisions made at the highest level by the ruling House of Saud.…

BY MARK ROWE

The expansion of the European Union (EU) continues eastwards – and the food and drink industry of the existing EU will inevitably be affected by the new competition, as will companies in the new member countries.

The next few years are likely to see several countries accede to the EU.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, LUCY JONES, RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, JULIAN RYALL, and KARRYN MILLER

THERE are 108 recognised Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) throughout the world and more are being created every year as the fight against international money laundering becomes ever more global.…

BY DOMINIQUE PATTON

China is coming under growing pressure to make its graduates more employable as it faces its biggest unemployment crisis in decades.

More than 6 million students will graduate this summer, joining more than 1 million of last year’s class who are still unemployed and several million more workers who have lost jobs since the slowdown of the global economy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CORRUPTION begets fraud and fraud begets corruption, and there are few harder crimes to tackle than complex frauds rooted in institutionalised and culturally tolerated corruption. As a result, the work of international organisation Transparency International has been key in fighting fraud worldwide, especially that linked to corruption.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH

IT is the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) which usually finds itself in headlines it doesn’t want, but the Luxembourg-based European Union (EU) Court of Auditors often manages to do good anti-fraud work almost by stealth and almost completely without notice or recognition.…

By Bill Corcoran

Confirmation that critical portions of the new Seacom 17,000km undersea fibre optic cable linking Africa to Europe and India have been completed marked a momentous occasion for people involved in tertiary education in South Africa.

As universities around the world have become used to fast and affordable internet access that handles large volumes of data, South Africa’s higher education institutions have been left to languish in the connectivity dark ages due to a lack of telecommunications infrastructure.…

BY ESTRID STROLL, in Leingarten, Germany, and KEITH NUTHALL

JAPAN and Germany are maybe the world’s top ranking electrical engineering companies, so it is no surprise that the Baden-Württemburg-based and Japanese-owned Hosokawa Bepex GmbH has a solid reputation for producing confectionary manufacturing machines.…