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BY MARK ROWE

SINGAPORE enjoys an international reputation for rigour when it comes to implementing and adhering to industry standards, and its paint sector is no exception. This approach is being applied, or has already been applied, to all the key major international regulations, including the European Union’s (EU) VOC (volatile organic compounds) directive 2004/42/EC, International Maritime Organisation (IMO) coatings rules, the UN’s Globally Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, and the EU chemical control system REACH.…

BY JAMES FULLER

SMALL island states are always vulnerable in energy sustainability terms, but the growth in renewable energy technologies is giving them a better shot at security of supply. The Caribbean is a case in point, where green energy technologies are being explored across the region.…

By Emma Jackson

The University of Michigan’s library has partnered with Booksurge, the print-on-demand service owned by Internet retailer Amazon Inc., to make thousands of rare and out-of-print books available for one-off printing through digitisation.

Customers will be able to browse over 400,00 titles on Amazon.com,…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ITALIAN, Dutch, Israeli and German researchers are creating a database that can advise businesses and others on the potential health, safety and environmental impact of nanoparticles. This NHECD (Nano health-environment commented database) database is being financed with Euro 1.45 million of European Union research funds.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A COMPREHENSIVE report from a European Union (EU) think-tank has indicated that Britain’s new Pounds 2,000 old car scrappage scheme may not work, because of high levels of UK personal indebtedness.

The paper ‘Recent restructuring trends and policies in the automotive sector’ by the Dublin-based European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has shown how Germany’s scrappage scheme has been markedly successful – in contrast to those in other EU member states, such as France and Italy.…

By Leah Germain

Making beer is a hot smelly process, as any home brewer will testify. But what is to be done with the steaming left-over grains from a brew: turn it into energy and biogas of course – say German and Slovakian researchers.…

By Alan Osborn

EU agriculture ministers and officials will return to Brussels from their August summer break to push ahead with developing a plan l from the European Commission to create what amounts to a supranational agricultural research organisation for Europe.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THERE seems little doubt that European consumers are not only still hostile to the idea of buying products containing genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), they may actually becoming increasingly negative. They just don’t like the idea of applying creams or make-up from organisms containing genes from different and often unrelated species introduced to give them special qualities such as pest or disease resistance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

UNESCO recognises a split between knowledge spread through standard higher education systems, based on the formal western model, and knowledge rooted in cultures, passed on locally down the generations. It calls this ‘indigenous’ knowledge in reference to peoples whose culture was usually downgraded in the past if they were colonised or subjected to strong foreign cultural influences, especially from Europe and north America.…

BY MARK ROWE

AIRLINES and airports are perfect carriers for infectious diseases and have helped swine flu to spread around the world within a matter of weeks, to the extent that it is now classified as the first pandemic of the 21st century.…