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BY ALAN OSBORN, IN LONDON, AND JULIAN RYALL, IN TOKYO

EUROPE’S carmakers are setting out tough pre-conditions to anticipated negotiations between the European Union (EU) and Japan over a free trade agreement (FTA). The two sides have just finalised a "scoping exercise" setting out goals for an FTA and the EU auto sector is laying down some red lines, worried about unfair competition if European tariffs on Japanese autos are lowered or scrapped in a free trade deal.…

BY POORNA RODRIGO, IN LONDON

THE London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games have helped to raise hopes of more joint venture deals between UK plastics recyclers and a range of food-grade plastics users keen to reduce their carbon footprints.

Management at ECO Plastics Ltd, has expanded its large and sophisticated plastics sorting facility in Lincolnshire, eastern England, through the May launch of its 10-year Continuum Recycling joint venture with Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd (CCE), making what it claims is the world’s largest recycled plastics processing plant.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, IN LONDON; AND KHRISTINA NARIZHNAYA, IN MOSCOW

A DEAL agreed between the 27 member countries of the European Union (EU) and Russia to help safeguard European sales of auto parts to that country is set to underpin the assault by the European motor industry on one of its biggest export markets targets.…

BY POORNA RODRIGO

Niyaz Ibrahim

* May 2011 to present – Auditor General of the Maldives

*May 2010 to present – member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)

*August 2010 to present – Lecturer Villa College, the Maldives

*March 2010 to May 2011 – Chief Internal Auditor – Maldives Ports Limited

*November 2008 to January 2009 and June 2009 to February 2010 – Deputy Director General of Audit – Maldives Auditor General’s Office (AGO)

*September 2008 to Nov 2008 – Assistant Director General of Audit – AGO

*July 2004 to Sept 2007 – Assistant Auditor – Audit Office

*October 2000 to Sept 2002 – Accounts Officer Trainee – Audit Office

*July 2004 to Sep 2007 – Manager – Gothic Construction Private Limited

*July 2004 to present – Private practising (Auditing, accountancy, financial and management services)

*January 2009 to June 2009 – ACCA Professional Examinations: (FTC Kaplan, Singapore)

*September 2007 to September 2008 – MSc.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

AS thousands of athletes and tourists flock to London this summer for the 2012 Olympic Games, some commercial customers of utilities and data centres based in the UK capital fear the inevitable strain that the event will put on the power grid.…

BY POORNA RODRIGO, IN LONDON

Demolition prices for older ships have fallen by a quarter in 2012, signaling a "historical drop" shipbroking, chartering and sale major Braemar Seascope’s research director told Steel First. He urged ship owners to scrap elderly candidates immediately and claim its "end of life bonus" as freight market would remain weak over the next two years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has told London airports they must comply with European Union (EU) rules on helping disabled passengers during the city’s oncoming summer Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. The Commission has released detailed guidelines on services for disabled passengers, saying they are based on its analysis of the EU regulation ‘concerning the rights of disabled persons and persons with reduced mobility when travelling by air’ (1107/2006).…

BY ROBERT STOKES

REDESIGNING the European Union’s emissions trading system (EU ETS) would save EUR 6.7 billion of precious taxpayers’ money per year and be much more effective in protecting hundreds of thousands of vital manufacturing jobs.

These are the conclusions of a six nation survey prompted by concern that manufacturers will shift business from the EU because of tougher policies to reduce industrial pollution.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, IN BRUSSELS;

The expansion of research assessment caused by obsessive measurement and monitoring is fostering a global "bean counting culture" in tertiary education that can detract from the real quality of university research, experts have warned.

Concern has been highlighted by a just-published report by the League of European Research Universities (LERU) authored by Dr Mary Philips, formerly director of research planning at University College London (UCL).…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

With ‘timeless’ fashion rarely on the minds of many multinational retailers, a successful style retail strategy is now often a race against the clock instead, as consumers’ appetites for a revolving door of apparel trends continues to grow in the era of ‘fast fashion’.…