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BY WANG FANGQING

Major Japanese dairy product manufacturer Meiji Holdings is planning to boost its south-east Asia sales to Japanese Yen JPY20 billion (USD244.5 million) from the current JPY9.7 billion (USD118.6 million) through a five-year investment plan (2011 to 2015) carried by its Bangkok-based joint venture CP-Meiji, with the Thai conglomerate the CP Group.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

European Union (EU) member states have been asked to approve extending import duties on US-made biodiesel after hearing evidence that US exporters had been evading special EU import tariffs imposed in 2009 by shipping via Canada or mixing it with weaker blends.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has told manufacturers of intermediate chemicals – including those used in the paint, coatings and solvent sectors – they may have to submit more information under REACH chemical control system. ECHA screened more than 400 dossiers of substances declared as intermediates and has said that 86% have not proved that this special status should apply – the agency requires less information on intermediates than standard chemical substances.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

INDIA’S multi-billion dollar ‘2G’ scam is a startling example of extreme arbitrariness and blatant disregard to rules during a tendering process to make illicit money. Raghavendra Verma in New Delhi explains how the manipulation in the government’s distribution of mobile telephony frequency became the country’s biggest ever financial scandal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has indefinitely delayed a planned April 29 end to European Union (EU) airport bans on carrying duty-free liquids, such as perfume, bought outside the EU onto connecting flights. International airports in all 27 member states were supposed by then to have sufficient screening to ensure such liquids were safe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRAZIL is the latest major emerging market country to have joined the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development’s (OECD) chemical safety data mutual acceptance system. It means regulators and cosmetics companies in Brazil will use OECD methods for non-clinical tests on their chemicals.…

BY JULIAN RYALL

NEARLY two months after northern Japan was shaken by a magnitude-9 earthquake and then inundated by a tsunami that in places reached a height of 38 metres and devastated the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the final toll has not been calculated.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

ON first impressions Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s two largest metropolises, seem a far cry from the fashion capitals of the world. Their wide boulevards overflow with heavy traffic and are mostly lined with small family-owned stores and restaurants, rather than well-known brands.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, KEITH NUTHALL and RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

THE INTRODUCTION of new global accounting standards through the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) which began some five years ago and will take 10 or more years to achieve is a massive undertaking which will revolutionise corporate bookkeeping and lead to an international standard matrix of values allowing for much greater transparency and facilitating country-by-country financial comparisons.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE PLANNED attempt this year by the European Commission to table a nanotechnology regulation that gives legal controls to this emerging science will be a tough task, a senior official has admitted to a Brussels conference. Henrik Laursen, from the Commission’s environment directorate general told the fourth annual European Union (EU) ‘Nano’ conference there was no emerging consensus on framing a legal definition of nanoparticles and nanotechnology, which is increasingly used in the paints and coatings sector.…