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BY KEITH NUTHALL

PAINT and coatings companies using nanoparticles in the European Union (EU) will not have to contend with a special nanotechnology environmental health law after the European Commission opposed creating such legislation. This follows a long review, where some environmentalists have pushed the idea, citing the unusual behaviour of nanoparticles, notably how they migrate within consumers’ bodies.…

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 RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, IN NEW DELHI

Indian business leaders have pushed their government to ban the export of bauxite over concerns that local alumina refineries are being starved of supplies. The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has written to the ministry of commerce and industry in New Delhi arguing that if a ban is not imposed, some Indian refineries could close.…

BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) auto sector risks experiencing the meltdown that hit the American industry in 2008-9 if EU political institutions keep imposing detailed new regulations and free trade deals, Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne told a Brussels conference yesterday.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN

AMERICAN poultry and livestock producers may be facing a jump in animal feed prices if the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decides to adjust portions of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), a new study has argued. The RFS, which was established by congress in 2007, stipulates a certain percentage of fuel must be made from renewable sources, like corn-based ethanol.…

BY CARMEN PAUN IN BRUSSELS

Urban mining being carried out in the European Union (EU) today brings more benefits to Chinese traders than to European metal buyers, Guy Thiran the secretary general of the European association of non-ferrous metals industry Eurometaux has claimed.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF, IN ITALY

WHILE trade fairs remain the primary channel for finding suppliers for any kind of fabric, the sourcing of luxury fabrics and fibres has seen a small revolution over the last decade – thanks in large part to the development of web-based technologies that have integrated face-to-face contact with online services.…

BY TENZING LAMSANG IN THIMPHU

BHUTAN is a small Himalayan nation striving to strengthen its financial infrastructure and transparency while pursuing happiness as an economic policy goal for some 710,000 inhabitants living in a parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

For a perspective on progress, Accountancy Futures talked to Jigmi Rinzin, a hugely influential Bhutanese and Asia accountancy voice as: a member of the Bhutanese parliament serving on several economic committees including the Public Accounts Committee (PAC); former chief auditor at Bhutan’s Royal Audit Authority (RAA); and secretary general of the Asia Regional Association of Public Accounts Committees (ARAPAC).…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS, IN CALGARY, AND PACIFICA GODDARD

But while the USA offers a degree of complexity within its states, drinks companies face much sterner logistics challenges in Latin America, Marcelo Nascimento, spokesman for leading New Zealand-owned but international system supplier of carton packaging and filling machines for beverages, SIG Combibloc, which has been focusing on Brazil.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, IN NEW DELHI

05 September 2012

THE lengthy ban on iron ore mining in the Indian state of Karnataka has been partially lifted by the country’s Supreme Court, a decision that could eventually increase annual supply in the domestic market by 4.5 million tonnes and soften prices.…