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SOURCING in Asia has been a merry-go-round for many buyers in recent years. As the era of low-cost Chinese manufacturing draws more or less to a close, several countries have leveraged their low cost labour to capture a significant volume of the world’s lower end knitwear manufacturing, while others have sought to extend their reach into higher value-added manufacturing by investing in infrastructure and training.…

HEALTHCARE companies have until October 14 to apply for funding to deliver personalised health and care under the first call for proposals for the new European Union (EU) research funding programme Horizon 2020.

By partnering with universities, other research institutions and small and medium-sized enterprises, healthcare companies can choose to respond to one of the Horizon 2020 calls open since 12 December and for which the total budget has been set at EUR549 million.…

WHILE Turkey has beaten out China as the United States’ top cotton export market, the US industry does not expect the shift to last.

Turkey has received 1.68 million bales (about 0.38 million tonnes) and China 1.4 million bales of the USA’s total commitment (cotton already shipped plus contracts for cotton delivery not yet shipped) of 6.95 million bales for the 2013-2014 crop year, figures from the US Department of Agriculture show.…

BANGLADESH’S pharmaceuticals industry lacks a “level-playing field,” leaving multinationals to wade through a raft of regulatory restrictions which may not apply to locally-owned manufacturers, a top official of Novartis Bangladesh said.

“This is a very challenging market. There are lots of restrictions on multinational companies,” Sazzad Rahim Chowdhury, finance director at the Swiss drug giant, told Manufacturing Chemist.…

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) health Commissioner, Tonio Borg has welcomed a deal struck by member states over revising the EU’s clinical trials regulation.

Noting this was an “important text for people’s health and EU competitiveness,” he said the agreement by the EU’s Coreper committee of senior national government officials would enable the European Parliament to approve the law ahead of May’s elections.…

THE JAPANESE pharma sector may have previously lagged behind its counterparts in Europe and north America helping the very poorest people in the developing world, but the enthusiasm with which five of Japan’s biggest pharmaceutical companies have embraced the Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund indicates a sea change in policy.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has made available Euro EUR359 million this coming year for research projects which are designed to promote low-carbon energy technologies in Europe. A number of 22 calls for proposals targeting this issue were released on December 12 (2013) under the first round of funding opportunities offered by the new European Union (EU) research funding programme Horizon 2020, whose overall budget is around EUR80 billion, spanning 2014 to 2020.…

Canada’s higher education sector has welcomed a comprehensive strategy released by the Canadian government for recruiting more foreign students into its institutions.

Announcing a new International Education Strategy on Wednesday (Jan 15), the country’s international trade minister Ed Fast accepted that Canada could profit more from the lucrative global international student market.…

THE INSULATION of heated livestock buildings and replacing soya with rapeseed in animal feed are some of the measures livestock farmers can use to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, a European Parliament workshop heard this week (Tuesday) in Brussels.

“About 40% of the total GHG emissions of agriculture in France come from methane from ruminants and their manure,” Dr Sylvain Pellerin, research director at the French National Agriculture Research Centre (INRA) told members of the European Parliament (MEPs).…

THE EXPANSION of the Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz International Airport (PMIA) in Medina, Saudi Arabia, has long been overdue, with the facility having struggled to handle the spike in pilgrims visiting the two holy sites of Mecca and Medina. In a first for the Gulf region, the expansion is a public-private partnership, with Turkey’s TAV Airports Holding Company operating a 25-year concession that is expected to be rolled out elsewhere in the kingdom.…