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BY HANA KAMARUDDIN, IN SELANGOR, MALAYSIA

"NEVER in my wildest dreams did I ever expect to be a deputy vice-chancellor," says Saran Kaur Gill, who fulfils that elevated role at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) where she runs UKM’s industry and community partnerships.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

BILATERAL trade agreements between European Union (EU) and emerging economies have helped cushion EU plastics moulders and machinery suppliers as more important domestic markets have weakened in recession and the Eurozone crisis.

It is a two-way street: lower priced machinery from China and India has made inroads into EU markets for applications requiring less technologically sophisticated kit.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

A STROLL through Myeong-dong, one of Seoul’s busiest shopping districts, gives a good idea of the magnitude of the popularity of South Korea’s cosmetics and skincare industry: according to the Korea Tourism Organisation there are approximately 1,000 cosmetic shops and hundreds of skincare stores within this small quadrant, alone.…

BY WANG FANGQING, IN SHANGHAI

JAPANESE c-store chain Aeon is expanding business in Vietnam, Malaysia and smaller cities in China, last week (March 2) opening a new national headquarters in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s commercial capital. Speaking to just-food, a spokesman at the company’s Chiba, Japan, corporate-base said a new Aeon Vietnam subsidiary would control "all of our businesses in the country, including convenience stores, shopping centres and supermarkets."…

BY LEAH GERMAIN

THE USA’s Under-Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Francisco Sánchez has told just-style he is optimistic about the impact on the American textile and clothing sector of new bilateral trade deals struck by the Obama administration with South Korea, Panama and Columbia.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, IN BEIRUT; AND MOHAMMED YUSUF, IN NAIROBI

IN late January, oil production and exports came to a halt in South Sudan over a transit pricing dispute with its former overlord north Sudan. With no compromise in sight, the newly independent Africa country is mulling other transport options, but, even if production were to resume, it will be months – at best – before its oil sector gets back on its feet.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN ILLICIT flow into the European Union (EU) of dumped cut-price China-made molybdenum wire is being choked off by new antidumping duties of 64.3% that will henceforth apply to exports of this metal product from Malaysia. The EU Council of Ministers has been convinced that a sudden bloom of molybdenum wire exports from Malaysia to the EU – from zero in 2009 to six tonnes from April 2010 to March 2011 – was not because of the birth of a Malaysian molybdenum sector.…

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 KEITH NUTHALL

CONSERVATION group WWF has lauded six major British cosmetics retailers for doing all they can to monitor their palm oil-based product sourcing, reducing its environmental impact. Palm oil has long been a concern of environmentalists worried about clearances of natural habitat in Indonesia and Malaysia to make way for palm oil plantations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has imposed definitive anti-dumping duties on imports into the EU of certain fatty alcohols and their blends, used as pharmaceutical ingredients, made in India, Indonesia and Malaysia. Indian companies will be charged Euro EUR86.99 per tonne; Indonesian companies EUR80.34/tonne; and Malaysian companies EUR61.01/tonne, with some special lower tariffs for selected companies.…