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During a news conference on January 1, Hiroaki Nakanishi, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, hinted at a bleak future for Japan’s nuclear energy industry – it is a gloomy view that is hard to contest, when examining the facts, despite the Japanese government’s continued backing for the sector.…

With their large financial services industries and open economies, the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland are conspicuously exposed to money laundering (ML) and terrorist financing (TF) risks.

Tough anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) policies are at the heart of their respective financial services regulations, yet both countries are regularly forced to fend off criticisms that they are not doing enough to tackle these problems.…

IF evidence was needed that India’s consumer food market was becoming increasingly open to foreign tastes, Godrej Nature’s Basket, a premium fresh and fine foods store with an online and offline presence across India, claims 40% of its sales come from international food lines, mostly imported.…

ANNOUNCEMENTS made at the Routes Americas conference for 2019 have demonstrated how the region’s civil aviation sector is expanding and providing more business to airports.

New Canadian low-cost carrier Jetlines, for example, unveiled plans to put conference host Quebec City on its route network when it begins operating later this year.…

THE UK government has released consultatory green paper on broadening its powers over air space allocation as it looks ahead to a post-Brexit future after March 29. Aware that air space congestion, especially in the densely populated south-east of England, will worsen, the government wants to ensure airports work together to maximise the efficiency of their air space utilisation.…

INDIAN Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone of a newly approved greenfield airport at Hollongi, south of Itanagar, the state capital of Arunachal Pradesh, north-east India. The ministry of civil aviation cleared the proposal in December (2018), which will see Indian Rupees 9.5 billion (USD133 million) being spent to build an airport with a terminal of 4,100 square metres and a peak handling capacity of 200 passengers per hour.…

Regulatory change is encouraging solar PV self-consumption in Spain, but politics could yet dim the prospects of this growth.

The prospect of many more homes and businesses in Spain being able to affordably generate power for their own use from solely- or joint-owned solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies has brightened considerably.…

IN a world increasingly hungry for natural gas, recent foreign investment in liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects has raised the likelihood that the substantial gas reserves of some sub-Saharan African nations will make it into global markets in the decade ahead.…

THE CANADIAN dairy industry has been left concerned by a change in Canada’s federal government dietary advice to consumers which damps down previous encouragement for them to eat dairy products. The change comes in the new Canada Food Guide (CFG), which has been updated for the first time in more than 10 years by the relevant ministry, Health Canada.…

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) personal care product industry will face a major change in manufacturing, if proposals being released by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to ban the use of microplastics, including microbeads, are approved.

Industry association Cosmetics Europe has pronounced that it is unhappy with the proposals, which it deems an overreaction that ignores some key scientific evidence.…