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BY MARK ROWE, IN BRISTOL

BRISTOL Airport, the largest in the south-west of the UK, plans to expand its annual passenger numbers from 6 million to 9 million by 2015. At the heart of the development is a 30-point plan, which includes reconfiguring the terminal building, with an extension to the east (6,700 square metres) and west (3,600 square metres) of the existing terminal to just over double its current overall floor area.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

THE NEW vice-chancellor of Bangladesh’s Asian University for Women (AUW) has told University World News how she plans to help her institution move forward after management disputes sparked negative publicity. Fahima Aziz was appointed four months ago and is focusing on securing quality academics and attracting more students to the university’s temporary campus in Chittagong.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s energy committee has rejected attempts to introduce a moratorium on offshore gas drilling in the Arctic, overruling a contrary vote by the EP’s environment committee last month. Instead, the committee proposed new amendments to a proposed law on European Union (EU) oil and gas exploration, ensuring that companies have ‘adequate financial security’ to cover liabilities from any drilling accidents in all EU waters.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

THE SEPTEMBER 2012 announcement by utility RWE npower it would close the 2,000 megawatt (MW) coal-fired Didcot A power station in southern England has highlighted the scale and speed of large coal plant closures in Britain. European Union (EU) environmental laws are being identified as a key culprit behind this trend.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, LEAH GERMAIN AND MARK GAO, IN BEIJING

A NEW trade dispute at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva between the USA and China over protective duties could actually be a battle in a long war for supremacy in world automobile markets, an auto industry expert has told wardsauto.com.…

BY POORNA RODRIGO

THE LEADERS of a project to set up a women’s university in Malaysia say that they have cleared land purchase problems that had been holding up construction. Representatives of the Asian Women’s Leadership University (AWLU) Project in Malaysia now say they are on a solid path to the institution opening in 2015.…

BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS

UNIVERSITY tuition fees cost more in England than anywhere else in Europe, according to a September 10 report from the European Commission, but the headline figures are not the whole story for students sizing up how to survive.…

IT is a curious irony that for an industry as technical as cogeneration that maybe the biggest handicap to its sustained growth in Europe is actually emotional. Both commercial markets and governments are swayed by sentiment as well as hard cash – and currently both influences are failing to pull in co-gen’s favour.…

BY MONIKA HANLEY, IN RIGA; ALICE TRUDELLE, IN WARSAW; CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS; EUGENE VOROTNIKOV, IN ST PETERSBURG; ROBERT STOKES, IN MALAGA; GERARD O’DWYER, IN HELSINKI; LEE ADENDOORF, IN LUCCA; ALAN OSBORN; MJ DESCHAMPS; AND KEITH NUTHALL

Such small plants have clear commercial applications and it could be – going forward – that market-based innovation, rather than government support, that will succour the sector in much of Europe during the ongoing financial and economic crisis.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WITH fraud becoming ever more prevalent, complex and electronic, governments worldwide have no option but to harmonise their anti-fraud laws, a holistic international business risk assessment company has told Fraud Intelligence. At an interview in their headquarters in Ashford, Kent, southeast England, executives of the Inkerman Group added that governments also need to be more proactive in ensuring companies have online protection technology defending against hackers.…