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China pharmaceutical industry investors want to help sub-Saharan African countries meet growing domestic demand for medicine in return for tax breaks and private-public partnership initiatives. But there are difficulties – including product quality and standards issues that impede the flow of Chinese Yuan into African pharma production.…

Indian breakfast cereal maker Bagrry’s India Ltd is starting a fast food chain, with its first quick service restaurant to open in February within New Delhi. A key focus will be take-out: “We will offer healthy food items which are well packaged and convenient to take on the move,” Aditya Bagri, Bagrry’s India director told just-food.…

MILLENNIAL CONSUMERS ARE SHAKING UP INDIAN MARKET

The emergence of the millennial generation – those born between 1980 and the early 2000’s – is going to drive how consumption, including that of food, takes place in India, according to retail and manufacturing heads at the India Food Forum, which was held in Mumbai between January 19 and 21.…

THE USE of tamper proof holograms on spirits bottles to control sales of counterfeit product in the Indian states of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh has had little effect, a research report released in New Delhi on January 15 (Friday) claimed. Indeed, regarding spirits counterfeiting in these states and elsewhere in India, “the complexity and degree of menace has continued to rise sporadically,” said the paper.…

PROGRESS made by Bangladesh’s knitwear sector in improving its health and safety standards will come under scrutiny this spring, through the Bangladesh Sustainability Compact. A second stock-taking meeting of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), European Union (EU) and United States-led ‘Compact for Continuous Improvements in Labour Rights and Factory Safety in the Ready-Made Garment and Knitwear Industry in Bangladesh’ was to be held on January 28.…

Companies are turning to more aggressive cyber security tactics to protect themselves against attackers. After a flourish of data breaches and cyber attacks against big global companies such as Fiat Chrysler and Target in 2015, traditional security strategies of building a virtual wall or perimeter around a network are increasingly being replaced with ‘proactive’ defence methods, which use technologies to detect and respond to breaches in progress.…

THE AMOUNT of fraud committed in the UK appears to be rising, according to a detailed report from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) – although the agency accepts the many difficulties in gathering reliable data on the topic. A headline figure generated by the ONS based on data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), UK fraud reporting body Action Fraud (which feeds information into the crime survey), plus industry bodies Cifas and Financial Fraud Action UK (FFA UK) suggest that in the year ending September 2015, 604,601 fraud offences were recorded in England and Wales – 11 offences per 1,000 population.…

The European Union’s (EU) Energy Roadmap 2050 project is certainly ambitious – looking to decarbonise Europe’s energy sector – and it anticipates that carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology will play an important role. Yet, it is clear that this technology is far from ubiquitous and significant efforts will be required to enable CCS to play a key part in Europe’s CCS future.…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) gave the telecoms sector a Christmas present, or a lump of coal, depending on the point of view, this past December 15: two major pieces of data protection legislation. A reform package was agreed in principle by the EU’s two legislators, the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament, and the EU executive the European Commission.…

Five years since the start of the Arab uprisings in 2011, instability is still impacting cosmetics sales in the Levant and north Africa. Last year saw a slight improvement on overall sales in 2014, the year the Islamic State spread through northern Iraq and Syria, but figures are down on 2013, and the growth projected in 2010, according to figures from market researcher Euromonitor International and estimates from cosmetics companies.…