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BY KEITH NUTHALL

IT will come as no surprise to auto companies that generating sales in Japan is a tough task. Facing intense domestic competition, complex and unique regulations, high taxes and a culture that is very different from western models, foreign auto companies often struggle in Japan.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE PRESIDENT of the European Commission has indicated he favours a harmonised standard for European Union (EU) airport security that includes the installation of body scanners. José Manuel Barroso was speaking at the European Parliament on March 9, as Commission officials draft a proposed EU security response to the averted Christmas bombing threat over Detroit.…

BY WANG FANGQING

CHINA will continue to crack down money on laundering in the next two years with a heavy hand, according to the nation’s central bank and financial intelligence unit, the People’s Bank of China (PBC). The bank announced a new five-year anti-money laundering strategy, beginning in 2008 and running to 2012, at a conference held in Beijing at the end of December 2009.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) of the World Bank is considering backing an innovative development of an integrated fruit production and processing business in central Ethiopia. MIGA is looking at covering US$9.25 million in financing from the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa (IDC) and Africa Juice BV, of the Netherlands.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MEMBER states of the European Union (EU) have been attacked by MEPs for their lukewarm support of the ‘Europeana’ online library, museum and archive. In a report released at the European Parliament’s culture and education committee, they called for more governments to offer content and European Union (EU) budget funding from 2013.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) RAPEX consumer alert service has reported a spate of sales bans and withdrawals of clothes with drawstrings, because of concerns that they could strangle wearers. Last week RAPEX publicised sales bans in Bulgaria of China-made J.S.J.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE PROBLEM with diagnoses based on physical examination is that nurses, physiotherapists and doctors must often rely on what patients tell them about their problems. And of course, that information is not always accurate. Patients can be vague; exaggerate or underestimate their physical difficulties and shortcomings; can miss out important details; even gloss over accidents.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has teamed up with the European Union’s (EU) Joint Research Centre to develop a collaborative programme of studies into practical day-to-day issues facing the nuclear energy sector.

Under an agreement negotiated late last year – which they have called ‘A Practical Arrangement’, the two organisations are now committed to working together in developing science for nuclear energy planning, nuclear safety and nuclear technology.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

THIS April, the long-awaited carbon reduction commitment (CRC) scheme will commence in the UK, bringing in the first phase of a carbon emissions trading programme unlike any other in Europe.

The programme covers virtually everything the European Union’s (EU) emissions trading scheme (ETS) does not: any corporation, company or business – including transport and agriculture – which consumes more than 6,000 megawatt hours (MWh) per year.…

BY PHILIPPA JONES

WITH so much competition in design and price within the apparel and textile sector, manufacturers are always looking for an edge. One way in which they can steal a march on competitors is with fibre innovation. And with new technology allowing the incorporation of increasingly complex arrays of chemicals and particles, even on the nano-scale, the opportunities to develop a revolutionary new fibre or mix of fibres are maybe greater today than ever before.…