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As India’s general election approaches, private sector steel manufacturers have told Steel First of their deepening concerns about the country’s national steel ministry, even though forecasts predict growth in the sector this year.

Speaking to Steel First, some manufacturers have accused the steel ministry of failing to adequately protect their interests.…

AS foreign investors in the garments sector trickle into Myanmar, local research companies and the International Labour Organisation are undertaking a study that could prompt the country’s parliament to pass a minimum wage law by December (2014). The study, for which one local participant is the Myanmar Marketing and Research Development Co (MMRD), will look at how local factories are struggling to cope with a labour shortage, partly attributed to low available salaries.…

International companies with specialised logistics technologies able to improve the distribution of branded food products across India could secure significant business, especially those specialising in delivery to retailers, a Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) seminar has been told.…

WHILE the debate over British airport capacity and expansion has focused on the comparatively rich and crowded south-east England, regional airports across the UK have been increasing passenger numbers and footprint substantially. In each case, airport management has had to negotiate long-term expansion plans against the vagaries of the economic climate.…

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region ranks poorly in intellectual property rights protection and enforcement. While some countries, notably in the Gulf, are gradually improving, political and economic uncertainty in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings is hampering progress in much of the rest of the region.…

An alumni association has been launched at Botswana’s newest private university, with the aim of linking its staff and students to the country’s well-do-to resource-based economy. The Botho University Alumni Association was launched last Thursday (Feb 27) by Botswana’s former President Festus Mogae at its campus in the capital Gaborone.…

Indian academics and university students are fiercely defending their right to use copyrighted reading material for free as Indian publishers intensify their fight against the photocopying and organised counterfeiting of books.

“Legal action is initiated in one or two new [piracy] cases every month,” said Manas P Saikia, managing director of Feel Books Pvt Ltd and a founding member of the Association of Publishers in India (API).…

WHEN a company issues a motor vehicle recall, there are a number of short term and long term implications. The company must consider the costs of repairing the vehicles, any legal costs that might arise, and, of course, its reputation.

But Paul Nieuwenhuis, co-director of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research at Cardiff Business School in the UK, said companies often decide to cut costs when manufacturing a vehicle, calculating that the costs associated with issuing a recall as a result would be worth it.…

TECHNIQUES being developed to analyse ink offer significant benefits for examining questioned documents. Forensics has voyaged far since handwriting experts had just magnifying glasses and experience to underpin giving evidence as experts.

It has had to: high-quality inkjet and laser printers make it tougher to distinguish between photo-quality frauds and commercially printed, legitimate documents.…

REPRESENTATIVES from Europe’s food and drinks industry have backed an “ambitious and comprehensive” Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union (EU) and the USA However, they have asked negotiators to find creative ways to deal with technical trade barriers restricting EU-US food and drink commerce, including sanitary and phytosanitary rules.…