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BY KARRYN MILLER

DESPITEthe global economic downturn of the last few years Vietnam’s paint industryhas continued to experience growth.According to Vietnam’s General Statistics Office234,000 tonnes of paint was produced in Vietnam between January 2010 and November 2010.In the same period last year production was at 181,200 tonnes.Sales…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

WITH sales of biofuels still very much in their nascent stage and concerns rising about the environmental impact of biofuels growing, research and development into ‘second-generation’ biofuels is going ahead apace. And a key element of this work is lowering CO2 emissions from fuel by using waste alternative sources of material for conversion to biofuel.…

BY BILL CORCORAN

IT would appear the South African government has been spurred into action to fight the threat of rising acid mine drainage (AMD), a poisonous side effect of underground mining. Faced with environmentalist claims that with no action, acidic water will leach from disused mines across South Africa to contaminate 80% of fresh water sources by 2015, the government established a ministerial task force to investigate the threat in late October.…

BY DANIEL PRUZIN

THE GLOBAL airline industry is spearheading a push for an overhaul of airport screening procedures which would use passenger profiling as a way to speed people through airport security checks, the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has said.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

THE FIRST major compliance deadline for the European Union’s (EU) chemical control system REACH has passed, and paint manufacturers, importers and suppliers are breathing a sigh of relief.

"Overall, I think it has been quite challenging for both industries and ECHA [the European Chemicals Agency based in Helsinki, Finland], but I think we are both relieved to have the first deadline past, and I think it was quite successful on both sides," said Laurence Hoffstadt (NOTE: NAME IS SPELLED CORRECTLY), a scientific officer with ECHA, which governs and administers Europe’s chemical registration programme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, ALAN OSBORN, MJ DESCHAMPS, MARK ROWE, RENDAN DE BEER, MAKKI MARSEILLES

IT has been a real slog – persuading the European Union’s (EU) 27 member states to implement detailed plans to manage their water resources on a river basin basis, rather than artificial political boundaries bearing little relation to hydrology.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) has staged a Global Forum on Environment: Sustainable Materials Management, urging the greening of resources sectors, such as oil and gas. The OECD’s heard calls from the think-tank for governments to use public procurement with environmental criteria for resource purchases; to back eco-labelling; and insist on producer responsibility regarding product waste.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

MORE than 13 million passengers per year use Auckland International Airport – indeed according to Richard Llewellyn, senior communications manager for the airport : "More than 70 per cent of all visitors to New Zealand arrive or depart through it."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, DEIRDRE MASON

IF there is a philosophy driving the European Union (EU), it surely is that everyone must rub along together and cooperate for the general good. For a continent as diverse and as previously fractious as Europe, that is neither unsurprising nor unworthy.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

WHILE cuts and bruises from angry patients are nothing new to nurses, there are growing concerns that there is a link between physical assaults and long-term musculoskeletal symptoms.

The mental and emotional consequences of nursing violence have been on the radar of health institutions for a long time, but a recent study published in the UK-based international academic journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine is the first to make the connection between physical violence and chronic health problems.…