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THE COLOMBIA government has launched a crackdown on illegal mining in its country, with agencies temporarily suspending the export licence of American coal giant Drummond and then permanently revoking the permits of 32 mine operators.

While the National Mining Agency (ANM) refused to tell the Mining Journal the names of the companies concerned while legal procedures were outstanding, it has said that 70% of the mines are for coal, and others were for gold and construction materials.…

THE EUROPEAN Parliament (EP) has backed budget cuts to the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) agreed last month by European Union (EU) heads of government and the move is expected to have a negative impact on EU livestock farmers. MEPs did not challenge the planned 11% reduction in the overall CAP spending for 2014-20 to a total amount of EUR373.18 billion, despite vocal opposition from some members when the budget deal was struck on February 8.…

MEXICAN pork processor Norson Holding has welcomed an investment of USD40 million from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank, which will help it expand production, while reducing its environmental footprint.

A note from Norson, a joint venture between Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer, and local investors, said the company was “proud to have been selected by an institution as prestigious worldwide as the IFC”.…

IF there is one crime condemned worldwide it is the sale and smuggling of counterfeit medicines. Sometimes close copies and sometimes dangerous substances – this crime kills on a grand scale.

Counting the number of its victims accurately is difficult, because of the subversive nature of the trade, but some think-tanks have tried.…

PART 1 – THE RAPID EVOLUTION OF MULTI-CHANNEL

The apparel retail world has been altered profoundly by technology over the last few years, and the fashion industry knows that to succeed marketing and sales must be undertaken though the many new channels that are now available. …

CHINA’S textile industry association is preparing for new demands from its government to introduce sustainable production in the sector, warning that companies failing to comply will be closed.

Yang Donghui, director of the China National Textile and Apparel Council, a state-owned Beijing agency, warned: “This is mandatory.…

INDIAN garment exporters have expressed relief after receiving the details of India’s annual central government budget for 2013, after a feared increase in indirect taxes was not proposed. Exporters worried about an increase in import duties for inputs and also excise duties on outputs that have to be reclaimed later for exports. …

AFTER years of promises, the Ghanaian government, with some help from Brazil, is ready to make good on its pledge to equip Ghana with a second international airport. Construction under the government’s USD174 million plan to upgrade Tamale Airport, in northern Ghana, to enable it to better handle the international traffic for which it was designated in 2008, should begin this summer, according to Bernard Nyavor, the passengers director of Ghana’s Kotoka International Airport (KIA), in the capital Accra.…

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) agriculture association has called for EU ministers to redouble efforts not to damage the competitiveness of European crop growers through the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), after heads of government cut EU farm spending by 13% for 2014-20.…

China’s steelmakers are set to face further financial pressure after the country’s ministry of environmental protection said it will impose new emissions rules on new mills as early as March 1. This comes after the government imposed pollution standards as recently as last October and the latest action is thought to have been inspired by the rash of urban fog problems that have hit Chinese cities this winter.…