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BY MARK ROWE

IS the recession’s worst over for the jet fuel aviation industry? Passenger traffic during this late spring and summer has risen sharply compared with flights year-on-year, giving hope to an industry that Giovanni Bisignani, director general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), described last year as "structurally sick".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and MARK ROWE

AS auto manufacturers start to realise the utility of incorporating parts and components using nanotechnology to improve their performance, the European Union (EU) is looking hard at special regulations to protect the public and the environment from nanoparticles.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MAJOR investment could be required by European Union (EU) gas utilities because of a new EU regulation insisting that member states have sufficient storage capacity to deal with supply crises such as the Russia and Ukraine dispute in 2008 and 2009.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A US Geological Survey expert has warned environmental difficulties could prevent Europe harvesting significant reserves of shale gas maybe in Britain, Germany, Sweden, Poland, France, Hungary and Austria. Research geologist Don Gauthier told a French Institute for Foreign Relations conference in Brussels the "high density" of wells required, including horizontal wells, could anger urbanised Europe.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

THE FOUNDER and CEO of Canada’s book retail giant Indigo Books & Music Inc Heather Reisman has told The Bookseller she firmly believes paper books will survive and thrive in an increasingly digitalised world of bookselling, despite predicting ebooks will take a whopping 20% of the book market in the future.…

BY WANG FANGQING

WITH the fast development of on-line shopping and increasing orders from overseas, the business of counterfeit perfumes is expanding in China.

Take taobao.com, Asia’s largest online shopping website resembling eBay, as an example. A simple search for J’Adore, a perfume by Dior of Paris-based LVMH (Moët Hennessy.Louis…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) researchers have taken a key step towards regulating nanoparticles that are of increasing importance in paint and coating manufacture. The Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission has recommended a clear definition that nanoparticles should be considered between 1 nanometres (nm) and 100 nm.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) researchers have taken a key step towards regulating nanoparticles that are of increasing importance in plastics products and packaging. The Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission has recommended a clear definition that nanoparticles should be considered between 1 nanometres (nm) and 100 nm.…

BY DINAH GARDNER

WITH its five thousand years of history, it’s unique Confucian-based social traditions and, more recently, a one-party state system, no one expects China to take on the western concepts of coaching without tweaking them a little. "The best coaches in China are those who can blend Western best practice with Chinese wisdom and social mores," says Frank Gallo, an American who offers business coaching in China via his own company, Calypso Consulting.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

DUTCH electronics corporation Philips is working with the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) to bring sustainable energy to African villages, where an estimated 560 million people are left in darkness after nightfall. The resulting restrictions on people’s activities can actually be serious – for instance children are unable to finish their homework.…