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BY WANG FANGQING

WHILE soybean oil still remains the main cooking oil of choice used in China, the country’s manufacturers have recently been experiencing a shift – with a growing demand for diversity in terms of cooking products in large and small cities.…

BY JULIAN RYALL

UNIQLO thinks big, talks big and has big ambitions – and analysts believe the company does indeed have what it takes to become the biggest clothing retailer in the world within the next decade.

It will clearly face a series of obstacles on its way to that title.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE WESTERN financial system is undergoing profound change, of weakened trust in the sector, heightened tax regulations, pressure to curb banking secrecy and tougher regulatory compliance. As a result, the owners of legal and extra-legal capital who are looking for a safe haven for their money are starting to consider destinations outside the established offshore jurisdictions – the less regulated financial centres of the Middle East and Asia.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

INDIA’s first ‘airport city’, Durgapur Aerotropolis, is to be up and running by the end of 2012 in the eastern state of West Bengal, (which could be soon renamed ‘Paschimbanga’ by its government). The 880-acre greenfield project will include airport infrastructure and urban development, and will employ 90,000 people.…

BY MARK GODFREY

ANYONE who has eaten croissants and Danish-style pastries smothered with mayonnaise, chopped sausages and pork floss will appreciate that Beijing bakeries have a style all of their own. Yet the unorthodox approach is popular with local consumers, judging by how bakery chains are growing here: aside from locally-owned chains such as Holiland and Weiduomei and there has been an influx of regional chains, for instance Kiss n Bake from Taiwan and Singapore’s BreadTalk.…

BY MINI PANT ZACHARIAH

FieldFresh Foods, a venture between India’s Bharti Enterprises and Singapore-listed Del Monte Pacific, has launched pasta sauces across India.

The venture has started to sell the products throughout India as demand for Italian food grows and producers vie for market share.…

BY MINDY RAN

ROTTERDAM is already Europe’s largest port and hence of importance for the import and export of waste materials from and to the European Union (EU) and this role is to strengthen.

For Rotterdam, the world’s fourth largest industrial port, behind China’s Shanghai and Ningbo, then Singapore, already utilises 26,000 acres, of which 12,500 acres are commercial sites and 13,500 acres water docks, rail lines, roads and pipeline zones.…

BY MARIANNE BROWN and KEITH NUTHALL

A CHINK of light in the gloom spread over the nuclear industry by Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster can be seen to the south, where south-east Asian governments seem keen to push ahead with their nuclear expansion plans regardless.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

THE UNITED States garment industry is supporting a "yarn forward" rule of origin proposed by the US Trade Representative (USTR) during the latest round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement negotiations. Both the US and Vietnam want to join the TPP trade agreement, which currently includes Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore.…

BY WANG FANGQING

Major Japanese oils and fats manufacturer Fuji Oil is to open two research centers in Bangkok, Thailand, and Guangzhou, south China, in August, targeting local bakery snacks manufacturers. "The two research centres will help our local clients develop new products through designing menus using our products, such as margarine and cream," said a Fuji spokesman, adding the two centres themselves would not develop final consumer brands.…