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BY DEIRDRE MASON

RECYCLING products as large as motor vehicles; or encouraging public authorities to buy environment-friendly autos seem such good ideas, laws insisting this happens is surely just commonsense? Not so in Europe, it would appear, where a string of countries are in trouble for not implementing the European Union’s recent (EU) green procurement directive; and one – Italy – is facing potential legal action for flouting the EU’s end-of-life vehicles (ELV) directive, even though these was approved in the year 2000.…

BY MARIANNE BROWN and KEITH NUTHALL

A CHINK of light in the gloom spread over the nuclear industry by Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster can be seen to the south, where south-east Asian governments seem keen to push ahead with their nuclear expansion plans regardless.…

BY WANG FANGQING

LARGE Japanese retailer Aeon Group is to invest about Japanese Yen JPY200 billion (USD2.5 billion) from 2011 to 2013 for its expansion in Asia, including China, Malaysia and Vietnam. "As the Japanese economy slows down, we are actively looking for opportunities in other countries," said a Chiba-based Aeon spokesperson, adding fast developing Asian countries not only offer great opportunities, but also "are close to Japan geographically and share a similar culture, which is certainly an advantage for communication," she said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has indefinitely delayed a planned April 29 end to European Union (EU) airport bans on carrying duty-free liquids, such as perfume, bought outside the EU onto connecting flights. International airports in all 27 member states were supposed by then to have sufficient screening to ensure such liquids were safe.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

THE ASSOCIATION of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) covers 10 distinct countries, each with a unique culture, mirroring the personal care product markets of the European Union (EU). However, these nations do share some similarities – and maybe more than northern, southern and eastern Europe, especially when it comes to what ASEAN consumers have inside their cosmetics cabinets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has delayed the planned April 29 end to European Union (EU) airport bans on carrying duty-free liquids bought outside the EU onto connecting flights. International airports in all 27 member states were supposed by then to have sufficient screening technology and procedures to ensure such liquids were safe.…

BY WANG FANGQING

Major Japanese dairy product manufacturer Meiji Holdings is planning to boost its south-east Asia sales to Japanese Yen JPY20 billion (USD244.5 million) from the current JPY9.7 billion (USD118.6 million) through a five-year investment plan (2011 to 2015) carried by its Bangkok-based joint venture CP-Meiji, with the Thai conglomerate the CP Group.…

BY AHMAD PATHONI

INDONESIA’S paint and coating market has grown by about 3-4% annually by average over the past decade. Indeed, consumption rose to 688,863 tonnes in 2010, from 646,700 the previous year, according to the Indonesian Paint Manufacturers’ Association.

And a mini-boom could be approaching.…

BY WACHIRA KIGOTHO

CLASSIFIED as a failed state, Somalia is one of the world’s poorest countries, but oil production could change its fortune. Indeed, politically fractured Somalia is being touted as a potentially rich oil and gas producer. Given security, Somalia is increasingly regarded as economically strategically-located, a view fuelled by recent interest by Chinese and western nations’ oil and gas investment companies.…

BY GEORGE STONE

MOZAMBIQUE expects to start exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) in 2018 after major gas finds by Milan-based Eni and American firm Anadarko Petroleum in the waters of the Rovuma basin in the north of the country. The finds mean Mozambique is on course to be a leading LNG supplier to Asia, particularly Japan and rival the region’s leading gas exporters Nigeria and Angola.…