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INDIA’S luxury apparel market poses huge challenges for western brands due to a local preference for ethnic designs, especially for dresses, according to the latest market intelligence revealed last week at the ‘CII-ET Dialogue on Luxury’, a daylong conference organised by the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) and India’s Economic Times newspaper, in New Delhi.…

THE EUROPEAN Research Council (ERC) will be able to recruit top young scientists from South Korea following an agreement signed by the European Commission and the South Korean government last Friday (Nov 8) in Brussels.

The agreement will make it easier for South Koreans to join research teams led by ERC grantees and be funded by the ERC for six to twelve months.…

THOSE who have spent some time walking Chinese supermarket aisles in the past decade will have noticed astonishing changes in the local diet. Increased sales of dairy products and meat are driving demand for soy as an animal feed ingredient, and demand for higher-end consumer products such as ice cream, and confectionery are increasing palm oil requirements.…

THERE are few brands as recognisable to Chinese consumers as the ‘Golden Dragon Fish’, the ‘Jin Long Yu’ in Mandarin, which adorns the tubs of cooking oil and bags of flour and rice in supermarkets across the country. The brand is owned by Singapore-based conglomerate Wilmar, a one-time trading house which has come to increasingly invest in downstream and upstream elements of the oil palm and soy industries.…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Canadian paints and coatings exporters are to benefit from a new free trade deal struck between the EU and Canada. Once the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) has been ratified (probably in 2015), it will lead to all existing non-food duties imposed on good traded between the parties being scrapped.…

THE PAINT and coatings sector will be able to bid for an increased pot of European Union (EU) funding for research projects under the new Horizon 2020 programme, which was approved in November. It has an overall budget exceeding Euro EUR78.6 billion and will run from January to 2020.…

OIL, gas and petrochemical companies can bid for an increased pot of European Union (EU) funding for research projects under the new Horizon 2020 programme, which was approved in November. It has an overall budget exceeding Euro EUR78.6 billion and will run from January to 2020.…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Canadian oil exporters are to benefit from a new free trade deal struck between the EU and Canada. Once the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) has been ratified (probably in 2015), it will lead to all existing non-food duties imposed on goods traded between the parties being scrapped.…

THE SIGHT of wind turbines in an offshore oilfield is nothing new. Operators in the Gulf of Mexico have for years used small wind turbines on oil and gas installations to power SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) computerised systems to keep fields operating.…

A SWITZERLAND and Greece-based pharmaceutical company Sellas Life Sciences has signed a Euro EUR388 million investment deal with China’s Fochon Pharma for developing and selling two novel molecules for treating type II diabetes and lung cancer. Under the deal, Sellas will acquire the worldwide rights, outside China, to sell the resulting medicines, having organised and funded the clinical trials, some in Greece.…