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BY JOHN PAGNI, IN HELSINKI, AND KITTY SO

When officially opened on May 8, Finland’s new 90MW Kymijärvi 2 power station will break ground in its novel energy efficiency and environment technology: a waste-to-energy combined heat and power (CHP) production unit using clean bio-gas as its fuel.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN

THE PAKISTAN-BASED Tethyan Copper Company (TCC) is moving forward with their legal proceedings with a Pakistan province following the denial of a mining lease and application. TCC, a joint venture project between Chilean copper producer, Antofagasta and Canada’s Barrick Gold, claims that the provincial government of Baluchistan unlawfully rejected its application to mine the massive Reko Diq project in Chagai Hills of southwest Pakistan.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, IN LONDON; JULIAN RYALL, IN TOKYO; AND LEAH GERMAIN, IN EDMONTON

TEXTILE recycling has come a long way since the days of the rag-and-bone man a generation or so ago, with particularly dramatic changes happening in some European countries over the past ten years.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN

A FORMER business associate of New York fraudster, Bernie Madoff, has had her assets frozen by the UK High Court while an investigation over her possible connection to the infamous Ponzi-scheme fraudster is considered.

Sonja Kohn, once the chairwoman of Austria’s Bank Medici AG, is accused of introducing new investors to Madoff and receiving at least US dollars USD56 million in return.…

BY MARK ROWE

IN the global push to make transport greener, the aviation industry is just beginning to take a serious look at how to ease the sector into using less fossil fuel. Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), like many other airlines, is currently looking into projects that scrutinise kerosene biofuel blends in the quest to make transportation more environmentally friendly.…

BY WANG FANGQING, IN SHANGHAI

WITH a growing interest in colour cosmetics amongst Chinese women, many companies are developing innovative and unique packaging that especially appeal to younger consumers.

Market research firm Euromonitor International has stressed in a report that international marketing has helped fuel this trend: women between the ages of 15 and 30 living in urban areas of China have been widely exposed to Western and Japanese makeup and are gravitating largely towards colour cosmetics because of this.…

BY EUGENE VOROTNIKOV, IN ST PETERSBURG

IF truth be told, the international image of Russia could so with some burnishing: the Georgia conflict did not help, and the western view is often one of a backward country kept afloat by a sea of oil and whose sails are filled by plentiful natural gas.…

BY MARK ROWE, IN LONDON; ZLATKO CONKAS, IN NOVI SAD, SERBIA; MIKE STEIN, IN PRAGUE; AND BLAKE BERRY, IN WARSAW

DURING the spring of 2011, the prevailing view throughout eastern Europe’s personal care and toiletries market was that while business was not exactly buoyant, the worst of the recession was over – then came the credit crises and the faltering Euro.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, IN BEIRUT

THE SYRIAN energy sector is currently reeling from the sanctions imposed by the European Union (EU) and the United States in the last quarter of 2011 in response to Damascus’ severe crackdown on protests that began in March of last year.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

THIS is a watershed year for futures and options trading in commodities, including bio-based oils and fats. In America, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the official watchdog, has just been implementing new rules intended to make it harder for the system to be exploited by financial speculators driven solely by short-term profit motives.…