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THE SOUTH Korean cosmetics market, currently evaluated by Frost & Sullivan at USD12.4 billion and growing at 7% year-on-year, is leaving behind the negative effects of a de facto boycott by Chinese tourists. The travel freeze, sparked by Seoul’s decision to install a US-made anti-missile system to protect itself from North Korea, has been in place since early 2017.…

For the first time since Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain in 1980, the African country’s tobacco selling season opened on March 21 this year with long time ruler Robert Mugabe no longer in power.

Former President Mugabe resigned last November (2017), faced with impeachment proceedings from Zimbabwe’s lawmakers, with the country’s generals and his own ZANU-PF party having turned against him.…

RUSSIA’S oil and gas sector has been targeted in new USA sanctions rolled out on oligarchs and companies linked to a Russian government.

Seven Russian oligarchs and 12 companies they own or control; 17 senior Russian government officials; a state-owned Russian weapons trading company and its subsidiary, a Russian bank, will have their US-based assets frozen.…

WITH President Donald Trump angered by the Syrian government chemical weapon attack near Damascus, the US government has rolled out additional financial sanctions on oligarchs and companies linked to a Russian government that Washington blames for abetting such outrages in Syria.…

THE NONWOVEN adult incontinence market in Europe is offering hygiene product manufacturers and brands a chance to profit in a wider sanitary segment that has been and remains highly competitive.

Western Europe has a high per capita consumption in sanitary protection and a fiercely competitive retailing environment, according to Miles Agbanrin, an analyst for market researcher Euromonitor International.…

RUSSIAN airports are intensifying preparations for a flood of passengers in the run up to the 2018 FIFA World Cup from June 14 to July 15, having expanded their carrying capacities and modernised operations, according to Russian transport ministry officials and airport bosses.…

RUSSIAN airports are intensifying preparations for a flood of passengers in the run up to the 2018 FIFA World Cup from June 14 to July 15, having expanded their carrying capacities and modernised operations, according to Russian transport ministry officials and airport bosses.…

THE RUSSIAN government plans to allocate up to USD250 million on the design and production of technical textiles and nonwovens for the country’s military forces.

It is planning to fund production at facilities run by some of the leading Russian manufacturers in the next financial year (2018-19).…

IS the Caspian Sea a sea or a lake? A definitive answer may bring a resolution to the thorny issue of just who gets to access to which parts of its lucrative oil and gas reserves. And last December (2017), the Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov unexpectedly announced that an agreement had been reached.…

SINCE the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and the USA, the UK, Russia, France, China, Germany and the European Union (EU), foreign financial institutions have – in theory – been allowed to do business with Iran.  But the reality – as ever with relations with Iran – is proving to be a good deal more complex.…