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BY KEITH NUTHALL

IN business, traditional security is all about keeping the bad guys out – stopping them stealing your money and property: intellectual and physical. And so it has been with telecommunications and Internet security. Companies have tried to protect their computers, telephones and other electronic communications devices from cybercriminals, unit by unit.…

BY ANDREW MCEWEN

ASK a school supplies business owner in Beijing why she loves a certain knitted cashmere line and her response might make you blush.

"Thermal underwear, great!" laughs Liu Qiao, 47. "I bought a pair of cashmere long johns for my husband last year and he loves them.…

BY AMELIA SMITH

THE DIRECTOR of a civil aviation safety company has warned an international conference on rebuilding Libya that improving its airport sector poses significant difficulties. Speaking at a London conference in November ‘Libya, The Future 2’, UK-based Advanced Aviation Technology chief Kim O’Neil said Libya was suffering from an "underlying cultural deficit" typical of many wealthier Middle East countries – importing large amounts of expatriate labour for key jobs, upon which they are "highly dependent", with locals lacking technical training and experience.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A MAGISTRATES court clerk in London has been imprisoned for six years for accepting bribes to not register motoring convictions. The case against Munir Yakub Patel was the first brought under the 2010 Bribery Act, under which he received three years’ jail.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

SOUTHWARK Crown Court, in London, has granted a four week adjournment to December 20 in the case of Kweku Adoboli, a trader at Swiss bank UBS charged with fraud and false accounting associated with USD2.2 billion trading losses.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, IN BEIRUT; AND AMELIA SMITH, IN LONDON

THE NEW authorities in Libya are optimistic about the future of oil production and the role of international oil companies (IOCs) in the rebuilding of the country, now the Gaddafi regime has been destroyed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Institute for Environment and Development has warned energy biomass demand growth could spark forest clearance in developing countries with weak property rights and environmental controls. It could also reduce food cultivation through "growing pressure on land access… in some of the poorest countries," the London-based group warned, stressing biomass already feeds 77% of world renewable energy.…

BY MARK GODFREY

THOUGH it remains the world’s key manufacturing powerhouse, gobbling up raw materials, China’s demand for imported metals scrap is currently slack. There are several reasons for the conundrum say local and international scrap players, among them exchange rate volatility and weak Chinese prices for scrap.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UK’S Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has launched its first prosecution under the 2010 Bribery Act, agreeing charges against a court clerk alleged to have offered to influence criminal proceedings against a traffic offence defendant for a GBP500 bribe.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

EUROPEAN manufacturers are increasingly turning to developing countries for the precious metals and minerals needed to make mobile phones, computers, electric cars and more. However, a European Parliament vote backing a raw materials strategy that highlights the potentials of ‘urban mining’ might help create a more self-sufficient European mining industry.…