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BY LUCY JONES

A new kind of executive is cutting an impression in the traditionally male-dominated brewery boardrooms. They are dedicated, tough and often young – and being female, a rare breed in the drinks environment.

As the beer business expands and perceptions change, women are increasingly rising to the top of the industry.…

BY DAVID EIMER, in Beijing

TO be beautiful in China is to be fair-skinned and for cosmetics companies, that’s an opportunity to tap the world’s largest emerging market for whitening creams. According to Chinese government figures, China’s beauty and cosmetics market was worth between 42 and 46 billion Yuan (US$5-5.5 billion) last year and a third of that total was spent on whitening products.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

CALIFORNIA has become the first US state to formally declare secondhand smoke a toxic air pollutant, aligning it with diesel exhaust, arsenic and benzene. The California Air Resources Board voted unanimously to change tobacco’s smoke status based on a report that found a sharp increased risk of breast cancer in young women exposed to passive smoking.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE LITHUANIA government has formally requested permission to recoup VAT from the purchasers of waste and scrap metal, (both non-ferrous and ferrous), rather than taxing the suppliers, which is the mandatory practice under European Union (EU) law. Vilnius wants however to exploit EU directive 77/388/EEC’s special rule allowing governments to request special exemptions to prevent tax evasion and avoidance: the European Commission has now asked the EU Council of Ministers to approve the change, which it is expected to do.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IF there was ever a region where a mining company could build an open cast gold mine without being bothered by environmental activists, it surely has to be deepest Siberia. Lightly populated, full of scrappy forest, and often scenically uninspiring, this vast region almost seems designed for industries deemed undesirable by wildlife-loving urbanites.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THE MEDIA rush to pick up on the revival of nuclear energy as a serious UK option, made plain in the Department of Trade and Industry’s recent Energy Review consultation document, has diverted attention from which tail will, in practice, be wagging the UK energy dog over the coming months.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITAIN has been given a generally positive report on its environmental performance by a detailed and long-term European Environment Agency (EEA) report. Overall, the EEA said that the UK was "fortunate to have implemented a series of structural economic changes in the recent past that have brought environmental improvements".…

BY MARK ROWE
WEATHER forecasting at sea has evolved beyond the age-old fisherman’s approach of licking a finger and holding it up to the prevailing wind, and the oil and gas industries have been reaping the benefits. Improvements in numerical models, faster computers, and access to more and better data (from, for example, buoys and satellites) mean that forecasts are more accurate today than 10 years ago.…

BY MARK ROWE AND PAUL COCHRANE

INTRODUCTION

JUST as chocolate sells well in cold countries, so do soft drinks flourish in hot countries, which would suggest that North Africa and the Levant presents an inviting face to the international drinks market.…

BY TAMARA VANTROYEN, in Hong Kong

BEIJING’S museums have been hit by Olympic fever. China’s capital currently has 118 museums and by 2008 that figure is expected to have increased to 150. A total of US$854 million is expected to be spent on the building and renovating of museums prior to the Olympic Games.…