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BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut
Lebanon’s cosmetics, toiletries and perfumery sector, excluding shaving creams and soaps, is estimated to be worth US$180 million a year, according to L’Oréal.

The sector was seriously affected by the month long war between Israel and Hizbullah last year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN today’s highly competitive global markets, utilities and their suppliers are always looking for an edge, especially in technology. So it can only be good news that the European Union (EU) will from this year until 2013 be spending Euro 2.3 billion on energy studies, Euro 1.8 billion on environmental research and a whopping Euro 9.1 billion on information and communications technology innovation.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in Westminster
A SENIOR American nuclear industry advisor has told a global energy conference of his optimism that a “nuclear renaissance” is now possible in the US after 27 years in which no new reactors have been ordered.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in Westminster
A SENIOR American nuclear industry advisor has told a global energy conference of his optimism that a “nuclear renaissance” is now possible in the US after 27 years in which no new reactors have been ordered.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
Brussels is to allow the continuation of state aid to the EU’s coal industries until at least 2010. At present nine EU members mine coal for the production of electricity, steel and heat, benefiting from a special exemption from regulations banning state aid.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Dubai
THE CLOTHING market in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is experiencing stellar growth on the back of rising consumer spending, a surge in tourists, and 145% growth in retail space as new malls and shopping centers spring up.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS concerns increase about the security of the European Union’s (EU) supplies of oil and gas, the European Commission has put in place a network of security experts charged with monitoring threats to the EU’s energy flows and raising alarms if necessary.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has suggested the European Union’s (EU) global positioning satellite network Galileo be built and put into orbit under public sector funding alone, abandoning its current private-public partnership scheme. Protracted disputes between contractors within the prospective consortium chosen to develop Galileo have made it highly likely the project will miss its 2012 launch deadline and the Commission is losing patience.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in Westminster
ENERGY experts, officials and politicians from around the word have told a senior London conference ‘The New Politics of Energy: Europe in a Global Context’ how with rapidly global energy markets changing rapidly at present, the European Union is becoming more disadvantaged in coping with the coming new realities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MANY lessons have been learned from the tragic deaths of 2,974 people in the World Trade Centre attacks of September 11, and one of the most important for the construction industry could be that fire insulation of steel structures need better protection against major impacts.…