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The all-electric version of Nissan Motor Co’s NV200 mid-size van has been launched in the Japanese market, with executives expressing optimism about sales, even though manufacturing will be based at Nissan’s Barcelona, Spain, plant.  

This is to bring supplies close to the large European market, but Takao Katagiri, the company’s executive vice president, has said he is confident that the e-NV200 will quickly command niche sales in Japan.…

The University of Rwanda is ramping up plans to increase future enrollment, planning to provide programmes for economic sectors that are growing within Rwanda, James McWha, its vice chancellor, told University World News.
“The mining industry is growing, and we need people with qualifications in geology and mining.…

NIGER is seeking to enhance its higher education services by opening four new universities, each specialising in a particular subject area key to the country’s development. And while the west African country’s higher education sector continues to face key challenges, experts are hailing the development as a boost to the country’s education system.…

TRANSPORT projects are a key focus of a major European Union (EU) investment programme announced last week – which is designed to inject EUR315 billion into the EU economy between 2015 and 2017. The plan, launched on Wednesday (Nov 26) by the European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB), is being rolled-out at break-neck speed in EU terms.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has highlighted a series of European Union (EU)-funded research projects aimed at making breast cancer treatments more effective through personalised medicine approaches. Notably, a communiqué stressed the value of the MINDACT trials, whose results will be available in 2015, assessing how genomic analysis can help physicians better target chemotherapy.…

AMERICAN apparel retailers, distributors and manufacturers are being hit hard by delays at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and concerns are intensifying as the festive shopping period approaches.

“Everybody is concerned,” said Kent Smith, the executive director of the LA Fashion District Business Improvement District (BID) organisation.…

More Danish pig farmers are testing their own herds after an analysis of pig herd screening tests, ordered by the ministry of food, agriculture and fisheries, found that swine-related ‘methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus’ (MRSA), is nearing epidemic levels on Danish farms. The country-wide investigation found that traces of MRSA have been found in up to 70% of pig farms.…

A sustained campaign by an influential textile lobby has persuaded the Pakistan government to revive a federal Textile Board advisory panel after it has lain dormant for eight years. The board has been charged with focusing on the key challenges now facing the industry.…

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Euro EUR50 million to Spanish pharmaceutical company Grupo Ferrer Internacional SA, to help it fund a EUR116 million’s worth of scheduled research and development. Studies that would receive financing if the EIB board of directors approves the plan includes medicines to treat central nervous system problems, infections and inflammatory diseases, oncology, diagnostics, plus cardiovascular, respiratory conditions.…

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the US government’s medical research agency plans to use novel hybrids of IT and living tissue to help pharma companies test the potential effectiveness of new medicines. “Scientists in the USD17 million project aim to perfect so-called ‘tissue chips’, miniature models of organ tissues built on transparent microchips lined with living cells and designed to act like specific organs.…