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BY KARRYN MILLER

TAKE a stroll through any of South Korea’s Lotte department stores on the weekend and you could be mistaken that the recession has ended. It is here you’ll see droves of affluent consumers inspecting the latest in luxury fashion before snapping it off the shelves.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

ANDREA Perrone talks of when he was a child, and his father – a lawyer and the CEO of Brioni Retail – used to bring home customers from South America for lunch or dinner at the family’s residence in Abruzzi, Italy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS the Scottish government prepares legislate for a referendum in 2010 on whether Scotland remains in Britain, it has released a detailed report arguing gaining powers over oil reserves would be a key benefit. "Most responsibility for…energy market regulation and exploitation of oil and gas, is reserved to the UK government, leading to Scottish interests being disadvantaged," it said.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

ALL is not well with the European Union (EU)’s ambitious ‘water framework directive’ (WFD). The 2009 timetable has slipped. The 27 EU member states were required to establish their first river basin management plans (RBMPs) for all 110 river basin districts in the EU by the end of this year and include specific measures to ensure that all EU waters reach "good" status by 2015.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and GEORGINA OLIVER

ACCORDING to Jean Castarède, author of a lay-reader’s guide to the luxury industry published in 2008 in the popular ‘Que sais-je?’ (What do I know?) paperback series, France’s couture and high-end ready-to-wear sector then represented one third of the world’s Euro 30 billion luxury fashion market.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

HUMANS have long dreamed of having robots do their grunt work, and researchers have already created and commercialised robotic vacuum cleaners – such as the iRobot that scoots around carpets and under sofas picking up dirt and hair.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have approved lifting special cod conservation administrative controls from 88 Spanish boats fishing for hake with bottom trawls off the west of Scotland. The move is permitted under the EU’s (EC) No 1342/2008 regulation for long-term cod controls, which generally insists on fishing boats taking special care to note and control cod bycatches in conservation areas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has asked to approve new revised fishing quotas affecting British fleets following talks on the management of north Atlantic stocks. These have involved officials from the EU, Norway, Russia, Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.…

By Emma Jackson

After years of collaboration between Queen’s University Belfast and renewable energy company Aquamarine Power, the Oyster wave energy converter has been named top innovation at the 2009 British Renewable Energy Awards.

The Oyster, now in its first stage of deployment at the European Marine Energy Centre off the coast of Scotland’s Orkney Isles, uses the movement of passing near-shore waves to activate its oscillator, pumping high-pressure sea water through a pipeline to a seaside converter where it is made into hydroelectric power.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and MONICA DOBIE

CANADIAN single malt whisky producer Glenora Distillers is celebrating victory in its long legal battle with the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) over its trademark ‘Glen Breton’. Canada’s Supreme Court yesterday (June 11) rejected a SWA application to appeal against a lower court ruling allowing Glenora rights to the name.…