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BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE SULTANATE of Oman has earmarked billions of dollars to build six new airports and expand its existing international airports of Muscat and Salalah.

This Arabian country of 3 million people has the least developed aviation sector of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states and this dramatic increase in capacity forms part of a diversification strategy away from energy – which accounts for an estimated 75% of government revenues.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, EMMA JACKSON and ALAN OSBORN

FEW things say more about the growing enthusiasm for nuclear power than the rush of young students eager to make a career in the industry. It is happening mainly in America but other countries are now beginning to see the same development.…

BY MARK ROWE, ALAN OSBORN, CRISTINA MUNTEAN and KEITH NUTHALL

BRITAIN has long been something of a laggard when it comes to district heating. The only significant growth was mainly oil-fired network in local authority housing during the 1960s and 70s.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF

ITALIAN agricultural associations and olive oil producers have greeted new compulsory European Union (EU) olive oil origin labelling regulations with mixed reactions. This is maybe no surprise. Olive oil forms the basis of the Italian diet and so is a touchy subject.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, EMMA JACKSON and ALAN OSBORN

IN the early 1990s the nuclear power industry faced a bleak outlook. High profile accidents such as in Chernobyl and Three Mile Island in, Pennsylvania, the USA, had raised public concern about the safety of the industry to all time high.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

GIVEN the preoccupation of the auto industry these trying days to merely survive past the next quarter, it is refreshing to learn of an international project dealing with the environmental effects of a road transport sector actually projected to grow and grow in the long term, as the developing world gets richer and more mobile.…

BY RUSSELL BERMAN

USA treasury secretary Timothy Geithner has unveiled a sweeping overhaul of financial regulations including additional controls over finance companies, but economic analysts took note of one glaring omission from the Obama administration plan: any mention of the raging debate over fair value accounting rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE DEPENDENCE of the European Union (EU) on imports to meet oil supply needs will rise to 95% by 2030, a European Parliament report has claimed. This will expose the EU to strategic dangers through buying oil from unstable or potentially hostile countries in the Middle East and from Russia, it warned.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes has laid down policy for the review of the European Union’s (EU) auto sector block exemption from standard European competition rules. Importantly, she has given a "cast-iron guarantee" that a new system would guarantee the rights of independent repairers to "access to technical information and alternative brands of spare parts."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has backed a review of the EU’s European Action Plan for Organic Food and Farming, which listed 21 actions to promote environment-friendly production. Speaking in Nürnberg, Germany, she favoured a "mid-term evaluation" of the 2004 plan.…