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MALAWI’S government is working furiously to win back international donor support suspended over a multi-million euro corruption scandal involving dozens of officials and ministers close to the country’s leader, Joyce Banda, southern Africa’s first female president. Bill Corcoran reports from Lilongwe.…

Although Hong Kong’s paint and coatings demand is modest, and with virtually all its production facilities having moved to mainland China since the 1990s, the city remains a sales centre for hundreds of paint manufacturers, exporters and buying offices, positioned as the gateway to the Chinese market.…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) should maintain its current implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) through EU law, and seek broader agreement between national and European interests when seeking to influence incoming IFRS standards, EU finance ministers have been advised.

The EU is currently reviewing how it interacts with IFRS and Philippe Maystadt, former Belgian finance minister and former president of the European Investment Bank (EIB) has been charged by the European Commission with looking at how the EU adopts IFRS standards and recommend ways to improve them.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission is to review its procedures for ensuring nuclear materials in European Union (EU) member states are not diverted from peaceful to military uses. It has released a tender for an expert to check its systems, which are coordinated by its directorate general for energy directorate E, based in Luxembourg.…

WHILE the European Union’s (EU) ban on sales of cosmetics with ingredients tested on animals was imposed as recently as March 2013, its impact has been felt as far away as east Asia.

Japan’s cosmetics firms, for instance, prepared well in advance for the change in legislation.…

AN INTERNATIONAL higher education conference has underlined the major progress made in building links between the universities of neighbouring countries in Latin America. But it also highlighted the significant remaining challenges facing Latin American higher education if it wants to be truly integrated with tertiary institutions worldwide.…

The European Commission this week opened the way for universities, research organisations and businesses to apply for a share of its massive Euro 80 billion Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme but questions have already been raised over whether the proposed selection procedures will be good enough to reduce complaints about awards, as Brussels hopes.…

High-tech textile companies have been asked to apply for European Union (EU) funded research projects associated with the new EU Horizon 2020 R&D programme spending around Euro EUR80 billion from January 1, (2014) and 2020.

In a first detailed call, the European Commission asked for study proposals on nanotextiles.…

TURKEY’S increasing focus on technical textiles is reflected in the programmes of two major international conferences that look set to be among the highlights of the country’s busy textile events programme in 2014.

A sixth International Conference on Future Technical Textiles (FTT 2014) will be held in Istanbul on October 15-17.…

A new on-line service was launched this week by the European Commission together with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), to help universities better understand their place in today’s market-oriented world by measuring how entrepreneurial they are. The initiative, HEInnovate, is a self-assessment tool enabling universities to assess their performance in seven areas: leadership and governance, organisational capacity, teaching and learning, pathways for entrepreneurs, university-business exchange, the internationalised institution, and impact measurement.…