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‘LA TORRE PUIG,’ the 22-storey Puig Tower now being fitted out in the Plaza de Europa, of the Catalan capital, Barcelona, for Puig SL, the family owned fragrances and fashion firm, will be yet another landmark building for one of Europe’s most beautiful cities.…

THE ACRONYM ‘PIGS’ to mean Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain, was never very kind. It was abusive European Union (EU) jargon claiming that these countries were poor and their governments, profligate. Sadly, the international financial crisis showed that there was some truth in this and the four countries have since 2008 had to slash public spending to stave off national bankruptcy, and their collective road and public transport sectors have suffered.…

Not enough emphasis is placed on teaching as opposed to research in many of Europe’s top universities concludes an EU high-level group set up to improve higher education in Europe. Its central recommendation is that by 2020 “all staff teaching in higher education institutions should have received certified pedagogical training.”…

A PUSH by the G8 group of the world’s seven most industrialised nations plus Russia to improve extractive industry transparency and openness can help industrial minerals companies manage the payments they make in developing counties, as they will only have to follow one set of rules, according to Rio Tinto chief executive Sam Walsh.…

THE CANADIAN industrial minerals sector has told its government how it wants upcoming extractive industry transparency rules to be written. Its advice follows a promise by the country’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper to table legislation fighting mining industry corruption, made at the recent G8 summit in Northern Ireland.…

THE LEADERS of eight of the world’s leading economies have pledged to crack down on misuse of companies and legal arrangements to evade tax and launder money.

It raises the prospect of national registries of beneficial ownership for companies and trusts in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, USA, and in the UK, which had already announced plans to force registration of beneficial ownership at Britain’s Companies House registry.…

may be a big concept, but the road to making personal care product packaging greener is made of small incremental steps that can both provide green marketing benefits and reduce costs.

Recent innovations include reducing the size of containers, while maintaining the volume of product they hold, alongside innovations in using renewable resources and keeping packaging waste out of landfills.…

SUSTAINABILITY may be a big concept, but the road to making personal care product packaging greener is made of small incremental steps that can both provide green marketing benefits and reduce costs.

Recent innovations include reducing the size of containers, while maintaining the volume of product they hold, alongside innovations in using renewable resources and keeping packaging waste out of landfills.…

A EUROPEAN Commission-promoted pharma industry cooperation group has launched a series of initiatives devoted to boosting the supply of medicines across Europe. The ‘Platform on Access to Medicines in Europe’ has been created under a ‘Process on Corporate Responsibility in the field of Pharmaceuticals’ launched in 2010 by European Union (EU) industry Commissioner Antonio Tajani.…

UNIVERSITIES worldwide are developing so-called ‘massive open online courses’ (MOOCs) in pharmacology where students worldwide can work with researchers and academics in interactive learning and studies. The USA’s University of Pennsylvania has launched a fundamentals of pharmacology MOOC course; another American institution Vanderbilt University is operating a MOOC course in clinical research data management; Ireland’s Sligo Institute of Technology is helping run a mass online course in industrial pharmaceutical science; and Dublin Institute of Technology is teaching a pharmaceutical manufacturing technologies course online.…