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CHINA and Japan offer two contrasting case studies in the punishment of fraud: while China is under pressure to dial down penalties from their past severity; in Japan, there have been moves to make punishments tougher.

Certainly China cannot get much tougher, given the death penalty is available to judges for fraud.…

WITH global cocoa prices continuing to rise and concerns growing that climate change will hinder efforts to boost production, the confectionery sector’s key Asia Choco Congress 2013 this year explored solutions to assure sustainable cocoa supplies.

Experts from industry giants such as Cargill, Mars and CAMOI joined with international cocoa specialists to assess ways of solving ongoing and potentially worsening market disfunction.…

MALAYSIA has joined the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development’s (OECD) Mutual Acceptance of Data in the Assessment of Chemicals system ensuring rich countries can import Malaysian textile finishing chemicals without safety concerns; an OECD note that Malaysian chemical safety test data “is of high quality and can be used for regulatory assessments” by OECD member countries.…

THE PAINT and coatings industry in Taiwan generally has an optimistic outlook, with the industry making the most of its close links to mainland China’s burgeoning manufacturing and domestic markets. It is just as well, given the island’s do-it-yourself (DIY) home painting sector remains weak, with such improvements traditionally a deeply unpopular concept.…

IRAN is under sanctions from the United States, the European Union (EU) and the United Nations, and last year the US tightened the screws even more. As President Barack Obama said following his re-election in November, 2012: “We’ve imposed the toughest sanctions in history.”…

WITH AREVA celebrating 30 years of operations in China in 2013 its head of operations in the country is hoping for an expansion of joint ventures as well as overseas collaboration with Chinese partners in uranium sourcing.

Speaking in Beijing, Rémy Autebert, senior executive vice-president for Asia, explained how he hopes to see a doubling in the number of joint ventures with Chinese partners, from the company’s current four.…

CENTRAL Asia has long been a focus of the European Union’s (EU) geopolitical efforts to wean itself off Russian oil and gas dependency and the European Commission has steadily wooed the nations in the region: first Kazakhstan, then Turkmenistan have been given audiences, trade agreements and social programme funding in return for opening channels for talks on energy.…

The European Commission wants an existing definitive anti-dumping duty of 24.7% imposed on imports into the European Union (EU) of some China-made stainless steel fasteners to be extended to similar exports from the Philippines. The concern is that Chinese exporters have illicitly used certain Filipino companies to export these stainless steel screws and bolts, including wood screws and self-tapping screws, to the EU as Philippines-made, to avoid the duty.…

New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra has highlighted its increasing focus on emerging markets, as the battle among global dairy companies for a share of markets in Asia, the Middle East and Latin America hots up. Just-food’s Jonathan Dyson spoke to Fonterra CFO Jonathan Mason as the company released its latest half-yearly results.…

Industrial minerals production in Malaysia is growing strongly, meeting increasing demand within the country driven largely by its rapidly developing economy. According to figures from Malaysia’s department of minerals and geoscience and the department of statistics, total industrial minerals production in Malaysia grew 10.7% to 207.6 million tonnes in 2011 – the latest year for which comprehensive figures are available – with the total value growing 16.5% to Malaysian Ringgit MYR3.3 billion (USD1 billion).…