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SEVEN MACRO TRENDS IN THE TEXTILES AND APPAREL INDUSTRY 2008
BY LEE ADENDORFF
IF there was a year when long-term textile and clothing market forecasters missed by a mile, 2008 was it. Forecasts made in 2007 were dominated by looming concerns about trade restrictions, investment in technology, a potential slow-down of production and a consolidation of business investment but no one predicted what devastating effects an unexpected recession would have on the textiles and apparel sector.…
SRI LANKA LEAVING NO STONE UNTURNED TO ENSURE MAXIMUM SECURITY AT ITS AIRPORT
BY MUNZA MUSHTAQ
As Sri Lanka’s military makes its final thrust against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the country’s government is trying hard to ensure the safety of its only international airport and its passengers, because of an enduring risk of attack from the separatist group.…
INTRODUCTION - NUCLEAR ENERGY ANSWERS ITS CRITICS
BY KEITH NUTHALL, EMMA JACKSON and ALAN OSBORN
IN the early 1990s the nuclear power industry faced a bleak outlook. High profile accidents such as in Chernobyl and Three Mile Island in, Pennsylvania, the USA, had raised public concern about the safety of the industry to all time high.…
CHINA'S BOOMING HYDROPOWER SECTOR IS CAUSING SIGNIFICANT ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
BY MARK GODFREY
THE BUREAUCRATS and engineers who run China’s booming hydropower sector will be in listening mode in April when the world descends on Beijing for the second International Conference on Hydropower Technology & Equipment. The theme of this year’s government-sponsored gathering – ‘Sustainable China Hydropower Industry’ – reflects worries about the environmental impact of recent massive hydropower projects in China.…
CHINA SPEEDS UP NUCLEAR POWER PROJECTS
BY WANG FANGQING
THE GLOBAL recession has forced China, whose economy relies largely on exports, to turn to boosting its domestic economy with a budget as huge as four trillion Chinese Yuan – RMB (US$ 585 billion) being unveiled last November by the central government.…
CHINA WINE SECTOR PUSHING AHEAD AS GROWING MIDDLE CLASS DEVELOPS TASTE SOPHISTICATION
BY MARK GODFREY
BARRY Lee is probably typical of Chinese wine drinkers. The auto-sales accountant started off drinking a local Great Wall red at an office lunch, then got curious and went to a Beijing branch of the French Carrefour supermarket chain where he spent RMB78 (US$11.40) on a bottle of Chilean red.…
TANKER RECYCLING STILL A DANGEROUS AND DIRTY BUSINESS, DESPITE INTERNATIONAL ACTION
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi; and KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL conference took place this month in Hong Kong (May 11-15) and adopted a new International Maritime Organisation (IMO) convention on globally applicable ship recycling regulations for international shipping, including oil and gas tankers.…
SAUDI FIRM INVESTS IN PAKISTAN GAS PLANT WITH HELP OF IFC
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SAUDI Arabia firm committed to developing energy projects in the Middle East, north Africa and south Asia is investing in a Pakistan 585-megawatt gas-fired combined cycle power project with the help of the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation.…
GULF STILL A MAJOR MARKET FOR BIO-BASED OILS AND FATS, DESPITE GLOBAL ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
BY PAUL COCHRANE
THE MIDDLE East and North Africa region (that economists like to award the acronym ‘MENA’) consumes 6% of the global vegetable oil market and sucks in 15% of global imports, with strong growth across the board on the back of rising per capita GDP and a burgeoning population.…
BOOM TIME FOR BANGLADESH KNITWEAR INDUSTRY
BY PAUL COCHRANE
BANGLADESH’S knitwear sector is undergoing unprecedented growth: averaging 24% per year over the past 12 years, and an astonishing 45% in the first three months of this fiscal year, with exports projected to reach US$10 billion by 2011.…