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BY KEITH NUTHALL

CALLS have been made for major additional spending on European Union (EU) energy infrastructure, now a new European Commission team is in office.

The European Parliament’s industry committee has strengthened EU proposals to ensure member states have sufficient interconnected energy links to deal with any unexpected winter shortages.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, EMMA JACKSON, PAUL COCHRANE and JULIAN RYALL

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Professionalisation is a key trend in today’s drinks sector, particularly as export markets are growing fast in emerging markets. With brand loyalty up for grabs, it is critical for alcoholic drinks producers especially to maintain and raise quality.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

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There are signs around the world that the textile market is beginning to recover from the global economic crisis, and developing markets will be leading that recovery. Asia is, of course, at the forefront, but many countries in Latin America have also weathered the crisis and have come out in a surprisingly decent position, with their dynamic textile and apparel industries well positioned for future expansion.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN IMPORTANT step has been made towards guaranteeing the safety of electric and hybrid cars, with the adoption by the UN’s World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations of a new technical standard on this subject – a global first.…

BY MARK ROWE

MANY cosmetics sectors would consider themselves successful to have managed fractional increases in sales over the past 18 months. But one sector has apparently bucked the trend – men’s grooming.

While the global personal care market has slowed due to the recession, men’s grooming is one of the few bright spots, with 6% value growth from 2007 to 2008.…

BY MIRIAM ELDER

WHILE the government of the Russian Federation has made real efforts to fight money laundering – as documented recently in the Money Laundering Bulletin – the problem remains rampant in this resource-rich country, according to Russian and international experts.…

BY MUNZA MUSHTAQ

SRI Lanka is hoping to capitalise on its natural beauty to become a tourist hotspot, given that its three-decade long bloody civil war is now over. But Munza Mushtaq reports that because of ignorance on the part of local authorities, the country could become a hotspot for something far less welcome – commercial crime.…

BY MARK ROWE

RUSSIA’S near abroad appears to offer an A-Z of both money laundering activities – from low level corruption to more sinister opium-based profits – and of the wide spectrum of governmental attitudes towards tackling the problem.

"While Russian and Ukrainian gangs have a presence in a lot of the activity in the region, most money laundering is still done by indigenes," said Mark Galeotti, of the Centre for Global Affairs at New York University (NOTE – SPELLING IS CORRECT).…

BY MIRIAM ELDER

THE LUXURIOUS boutiques that line Stoleshnikov Pereulok (NOTE – SPELLING IS CORRECT), one of Moscow’s premiere shopping streets, stand eerily quiet these days. Stern-faced guards appear to spend more time chatting on their mobiles than swinging open doors for the Russian capital’s once teeming clientele.…

BY AHMAD PATHONI, ALYSHAH HASHAM, MARK ROWE and KEITH NUTHALL

GIVEN the constant flow of news about tougher tobacco industry regulations from all continents, tobacco executives could be forgiven for thinking there are no countries where they have a relative free hand to sell their products.…