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PORTUGAL’S Faro Algarve Airport may not be the first airport that leaps to mind when considering where to test-run the latest in air travel security equipment, but the airport is trialling a cutting-edge airport security system.

Located in the country’s southern Algarve region, it is a small airport with seasonal peaks and troughs of traffic that processed 5,672,377 passengers last year (2012) – the majority of whom arrived on budget carriers between June and September.…

WASTE -to-energy gasification is a game changer, experts say, because it offers renewable and low carbon heat and power, security of supply and short delivery times when energy prices are high.

Advanced thermal gasification, as opposed to combustion – burning waste in an incinerator to produce energy, is “clean, safe, very efficient, and being of a moderate scale is acceptable to local communities, because nobody wants a huge incinerator in their back yard,” stressed George Willacy, the chairman of Refgas UK, a Flintshire-based specialist in gasification fuelled by waste and biomass.…

The European Commission may act soon to help brand owners in their fight against parasitic copying but there are big hurdles in its path and it may be some years before any progress is seen in the UK, in particular, where retailers seem to have the upper hand.…

Alliance Boots’ key mainland China joint venture partner is planning to expand its distribution networks to reach the whole country, a London-based spokesperson for the personal care giant told Soap Perfumery and Cosmetics on Friday night.

The UK-based company sells cosmetics through certain Mannings stores in Hong Kong and would like to expand those sales to mainland China: “We would like to; we are still considering it.…

Drinks packaging design has always been about communicating with consumers – whether it is broadcasting a brand image or delivering information. And with new technologies aiding communication in many ways, interaction is a key theme with international beverage packaging designers today.…

WHISTLEBLOWERS are crucial to rooting out fraud in financial services, yet the vast

majority talk to a deaf ear when they first raise concerns at work, according to a new study. Fully 77% of first-timer whistleblowers are ignored according to the London based charity Public Concern at Work (PCaW).…

BRITISH police and banks have received a ‘could do better’ report in new research suggesting cybercrime costs small and micro businesses GBP789 million annually in the United Kingdom. Police responses to fraud and online crime needs to be improved, said the UK’s Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), in a survey based on replies from 2,667 members, 41% of whom were hit by fraud and online crime within the last 12 months, costing them GBP 4,000 on average.…

The Russian government is considering investing up to Russian Rubles RUB3 billion (USD90 million) to support its domestic book publishing this year, taking the money from a federal ‘Culture of Russia’ programme.

According to the Federal Press and Mass Communications State Agency, whichis coordinating this scheme until 2018, these funds will enable the publication of at least 550 new book titles, mostly by Russian authors.…

the wall for multinationals using current international tax laws to reduce their fiscal exposure. Speaking at the eighth meeting of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development) Forum on Tax Administration, hosted by Russia’s federal tax service from May 16-17, experts noted that public anger was building over cases such as the low level of taxes paid by Google, Amazon and UK energy company NPower.…

THE MOROCCAN Society of Tobacco (formerly Imperial Tobacco Maroc) has welcomed the launch of negotiations between the European Union (EU) and Morocco to forge a so-called ‘deep and comprehensive free trade agreement’ (DCFTA) between them. The deal would remove trade regulations and harmonise industrial standards, noted Ghassan Khaber, communications and institutional relations manager at the north African country’s dominant tobacco manufacturer.…