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BY KEITH NUTHALL

Russian president Vladimir Putin has said he wants to significantly increase Russia’s nuclear energy production. At a meeting of the Moscow-based VALDAI Discussions Club, he said: "Russia gets only 16 percent of its energy from nuclear energy. We want to raise the share of nuclear energy in our energy production to 20-25 percent over the coming 15-20 years."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

UNIVERSITIES are set to benefit from a quantum leap in data storage that could see the pages of two million books copied onto electronic chips as small as a postage stamp.

The downsizing of digital memory and related computers, mobile telephones, iPods and other consumer durables has almost seemed like an inevitable progression.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved a list of priority projects under its 2007-13 trans European network (TENs) energy programme. Three of the 10 gas pipeline projects link Europe to Algeria, a key alternative source to Russia, and there are also priority gas pipelines to Libya and Turkey listed.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

CONTRARY to Islamic stereotyping, lingerie sales are extremely healthy in the Middle East, although the brand is not as important as the style.

Indeed, there is lingerie openly on display that in Europe would usually be confined to sex shops.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

OIL and gas companies working in the Caspian Sea will have to comply with a new environmental treaty from August 12, the first legally binding agreement signed by all five coastal states. Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan and companies working within them will henceforth have to follow the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

PUBLISHERS could benefit from a quantum leap in data storage seeing two million books copied onto electronic chips as small as a postage stamp.

The downsizing of such digital memory, and its access by laptop computers, mobile telephones, iPods, palmtops, datachips and other consumer durables has seemed inevitable.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

CONTRARY to Islamic stereotyping, lingerie sales are extremely healthy in the Middle East, although the brand is not as important as the style.

Indeed, there is lingerie openly on display that in Europe would usually be confined to sex shops.…

BY MARK ROWE

WHILE personal care product sales for the 15 countries that made up the European Union (EU) before 2003, plus Switzerland and Norway, increased by just 1% in 2005/2006 on the previous year – eastern Europe is a more enticing prospect for the industry, and has been singled out by major organisations and companies as a shining light for sales, investment and production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed re-imposing 52.6% anti-dumping duties on exports into the European Union (EU) of silicon carbide from China, while suggesting they are lifted for Russia and the Ukraine. Following a review into duties in place – at least formally – since 1986 – Brussels concluded for China, exporters were continuing to dump the processed mineral, and that "there is no reason to believe that this behaviour would change."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, will lend US$70 million over 10 years to independent Argentine oil producer Companias Asociadas Petroleras SA (CAPSA), which works within the southern province of Chubut. The money will finance capital expenditures, working capital requirements, and general corporate activities.…