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BY CRAIG HOWIE

THE POPULAR television programme Sex in the City famously glamourised New York’s luxury clothing culture, and Los Angeles’ high-end boutiques were given the star treatment in the 1990 film Pretty Woman. And America has long been the world’s largest market for high-end clothing.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, EMMA JACKSON, PAUL COCHRANE and JULIAN RYALL

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Professionalisation is a key trend in today’s drinks sector, particularly as export markets are growing fast in emerging markets. With brand loyalty up for grabs, it is critical for alcoholic drinks producers especially to maintain and raise quality.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) are starting to roll out joint projects after signing a major cooperation deal late last year.

The UN agency and the JRC’s Institute for Energy have agreed a ‘Practical Arrangement’ which outlined five main areas of joint work.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

VIETNAM has worked hard to convince foreign companies they should look past neighbouring China for their knitwear needs. Through an increasing commitment to quality, along with strong government support, Vietnamese knitwear firms are starting to see the fruits of their labour and tags ‘made in Vietnam’ are becoming more common both domestically and abroad.…

BY MIRIAM ELDER

WHILE the government of the Russian Federation has made real efforts to fight money laundering – as documented recently in the Money Laundering Bulletin – the problem remains rampant in this resource-rich country, according to Russian and international experts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CHINESE-made ‘Garfield’ socks have been recalled from sale in Germany because they contained banned levels of azo dyes, the European Union’s (EU) consumer alert service RAPEX has reported. It added there has been a voluntary withdrawal and destruction of India-made ‘Tiger’ scarves from Denmark because of banned azocolourants, notably benzidine.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE ISLAND Gulf Kingdom of Bahrain has embarked on a US$4.7 billion (Euro 3.45 billion) expansion of its one and only commercial airport, the Bahrain International Airport (BIA), to handle rising passenger traffic and regain its position as an aviation hub in the region.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LEGAL clarity on the amount of processing that an imported metal must receive, to become a new product for the purposes or re-exporting has emerged from a European Court of Justice (ECJ) case regarding Chinese silicon metal.

Germany’s Hoesch Metals and Alloys GmbH was challenging a decision by the Aachem customs office over whether silicon metal it was importing from India should have been regarded ‘made in India’, where it has been separated, crushed, purified, sieved, sorted and packaged.…

BY ANCA GURZU

ALTHOUGH the economic effects of recession can be felt in different sectors of the German converting industry, its companies have been busy launching new innovations, equipment and technologies aimed at energy-saving, waste-reduction and increased productivity. The printing sectors were notably active in 2009.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MEMBER states of the European Union (EU) have been attacked by MEPs for their lukewarm support of the ‘Europeana’ online library, museum and archive. In a report released at the European Parliament’s culture and education committee, they called for more governments to offer content and European Union (EU) budget funding from 2013.…