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BY RACHEL JONES, in Caracas

BIOGRAPHY

Olga Sandoval, 29, Licensed Nurse, University Hospital (Hospital Clinico Universitario), Caracas, Venezuela

Nursing License, Central University of Venezuela (UCV). Worked for two years in the San Roman Urological Clinic and seven years at the University Hospital, including one year of intensive care training.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NUMBER of dangerous products reported to the European Union’s (EU) consumer safety hotline RAPEX in 2007 rose 56% compared with 2006, but that is not necessarily bad news says the European Commission. RAPEX was launched in 2004, and circulates non-food product safety alerts from EU governments to all 27 member states.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

PORTUGUESE auto workers who recently lost their jobs in layoffs are to receive Euro 2.42 million from the European Union (EU) in social assistance and retraining packages. The money will come from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, designed to help Europe cope with economic change brought by worldwide economic change.…

BY DINAH GARDNER

SINGAPORE may rank highly on global anti-corruption ratings league tables but it has been coming under considerable fire recently for its strict bank secrecy laws. Last October, in the wake of the brutal crackdown on protests in Myanmar, the island state was accused of being a money laundering hub for top junta officials.…

BY DANIEL PRUZIN, in Geneva

IMPROVING air traffic management, particularly in Europe, is the key to ensuring further near-term reductions in harmful greenhouse gas emissions around airports, top executives from the industry argued during a recent two-day conference on aviation environmentalism in Geneva.…

BY MARK ROWE

MALAYSIA’S paint and construction industries are going through a stabilisation phase, according to the government’s Department for Statistics. Figures released by the department show that the paint industry grew by 3% in both 2006 and 2007, and is projected to grow by around 5% each year from now until 2011.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) should not assume that future technological innovations slashing carbon dioxide emissions will emerge spontaneously, senior north American scientists have argued. Researchers form the USA’s National Center for Atmospheric Research; the University of Colorado; and Montreal, Canada’s McGill University say the panel has "seriously underestimated" the work required to develop such technology.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN utilities have often regarded themselves at the cutting edge of technological development worldwide, and now a new European Union (EU) institution is being launched letting them to test their mettle.

An EU regulation establishing the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) was formally approved last month, triggering preparations for launching this institution next year.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Damascus and Beirut, and HELENA FLUSFELDER, in Jerusalem

INTRODUCTION AND THE GULF

THE DENIM sector in the Middle East is as diverse as it is fragmented, with strong demand in the Gulf and Israel for major brand names and the latest trends, while in the less economically developed parts of the Levant international brands are of less importance than style.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo

JAPANESE society is going through some dramatic changes that will have far-reaching effects on the nation’s domestic consumption patterns in the immediate future, as well as over the longer term. Arguably one of the most susceptible to these changes will be the cosmetics industry, which will have to wrestle with rapidly changing demographics among its core customers.…