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BY KEITH NUTHALL

PREPARATORY work for mining a major cobalt-copper deposit in Russia, could be funded by the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD). The bank has released plans for an equity investment of US$21 million in Isle of Man-registered Imperial Mining Holding Limited, whose subsidiaries explore base and precious metal resources in Russia and Mongolia.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

SYRIA and Iran are both designated by the US state department as sponsors of terrorism, while the countries’ major state-run banks are blacklisted by the US Treasury Department, which places the banks under scrutiny and prevents them from dealing with the American financial system.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

OVER the past five years Egypt has cemented its position as a fashion hub for European and American high street brands, with average annual garment exports earning the country US dollars USD2 billion, yet domestic labels are generally not exported and high-end clothing manufacturing is still very niche.…

BY MARK ROWE

Recession forced eastern European smokers to ditch premium brands for cheaper smokes

Tobacco majors have long targeted eastern Europe as a soft emerging market for premium brands. But times got tough during the recession, when smokers swapped aspiration for economy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Energy Agency (IEA) has praised the Czech Republic for energy reforms made since a previous IEA assessment in 2005. The country had "strengthened its energy policy, further liberalised its electricity and gas markets and made laudable efforts to enhance oil and gas security," said the agency.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, WANG FANGQING

AUTO dealers in Britain will certainly see the affect of the European Union’s (EU) recent signature of a free trade deal with South Korea. Once ratification procedures have been cleared, the EU’s import duties on cars made in South Korea (mostly 10%) will disappear within 60 days.…

BY Cristina Muntean

The rector of the Czech Republic’s second largest university has told University World News he plans to fight to protect planned public investment into expanding its campus, while his country’s government plans severe austerity cuts.

The centre-right coalition government of prime minister Petr Ne?as…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening legal action at the European Court of Justice against Belgium, the Czech Republic and Greece, for not implementing European Union directive 2008/112/EC on the classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures. It mandates safety labelling and collating information to protect the environment and human health from chemical mixtures, including cosmetics, soaps and their ingredients.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has released details of its plan to create a centralised registry for emissions trading permits by January 2013, and security will be a paramount consideration. Earlier this year, security controls were reviewed in existing national registries after a major theft of data from the Czech Republic’s register.…

BY JULIAN RYALL

BEFORE September 8, few people anywhere had heard of Zhan Qixiong or his battered fishing boat. However, since the Chinese fisherman and his 14-strong crew were taken into custody by the Japan Coast Guard on September 8, Zhan has found himself at the centre of an escalating geopolitical row that has already put planned discussions over gas and oil deposits between Beijing and Tokyo on hold and is ratcheting up broader tensions in the region.…