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BY HANA KAMARUDDIN, IN SELANGOR, MALAYSIA

UNIVERSITY partnerships with industry can be scaled up across national boundaries in a wider region to benefit communities, a conference on academic links with business and populations through Asia heard today (May 7) in Selangor, Malaysia.…

BY ANDREW GREEN, WANG FANGQING, PAUL COCHRANE, JONATHAN DYSON AND CARMEN PAUN

THE POLITECNO di Milano, one of Italy’s most prestigious universities, will teach and assess most of its degree courses and all its postgraduate ones entirely in English from 2014, UWN reported recently.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) police agency Europol has allied with 14 EU national police forces, EU judicial network Eurojust, Interpol and the Internet industry to fight a new cyber-crime – ‘police ransomware’. This malicious software defrauds Internet users by demanding payment of fake police fines, which go to organised criminals.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

INDUSTRIES with disposable products such as the personal care product sector have had to re-assess their packaging to meet national recycling quotas and help reduce unnecessary waste, especially in the European Union (EU) with its packaging and packaging waste directive.…

BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS

PAOLO Canonico, the chairman of the European Technology Platform for the future of textiles and clothing has told researchers and textile businesses he sees enormous opportunities for textile research and innovation in the Horizon 2020 programme proposed in December by the European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A RESTRICTIVE open skies agreement has been negotiated between the European Commission and Sri Lanka that incorporates existing bilateral civil aviation agreements struck with individual European Union (EU) member states. The agreement includes deals previously struck by Sri Lanka with Austria, Belgium, Britain, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Sweden.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A PAPER written by key European Union (EU) regulators has argued against releasing full datasets of clinical trials, arguing egotistical researchers might scan them for potential problems, generating health scares. The potentially controversial claims are made by the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) senior medical officer Hans-Georg Eichler, executive director Guido Rasi, and officials from the national pharmaceutical regulators in Britain, France and the Netherlands.…

BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS

THE EUROPEAN Commission has demanded that Mexico and Brazil provide a scientific explanation for a new ban on reproductive livestock material imports from the EU. The two countries have banned imports of genetic material from the EU over concerns related to the Schmallenberg Virus, which has been detected in livestock in Britain, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A MAJOR European Union (EU) research project is assessing the safety of common anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen and diclofenac. The ‘Standard Care versus Celecoxib Outcome Trial’ (SCOT), is being carried out by researchers in the UK, Denmark and the Netherlands, with 6,000 patients and 685 general medical practices participating.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

THE EUROPEAN Commission is considering the introduction of laws that would force European Union (EU) member states, consumers and producers to increase the amount of metal that is recycled and re-used from waste streams. These would include EU mandated taxation on waste; compulsory ‘pay-as-you-throw’ schemes charging consumers who fail to recycle metal waste; and enforced producer responsibility schemes, obliging manufacturers to support the costs of organising the collection and recycling of specific waste streams.…