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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Organization for Standardization (ISO) (NOTE: It uses the American spelling for its name) is staging a meeting this October of a new technical committee charged with creating technical good practice standards for the seafood industry’s aquaculture and wild harvested arms.…

BY KARRYN CARTELLE
ASIA’S paint and coatings industry may be growing but South Korea’s share of the market is on the decline. Indeed, the South Korea sector’s annual sales of US$3 billion make a small contribution to the global industry, where demand is predicted to reach US$83 billion this year.…

BY MARK ROWE, in London
NANOTECHNOLOGY has huge implications for the oil and gas industry, according to leading scientists who attended a conference on the impact of this cutting edge science on the environment at the Royal Society in London. They stressed the technology offers the prospect of carbon emission reduction, resource use minimisation, hazardous chemical substitution, the chance to dramatically reduce fraud, and pollution reversal techniques.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Damascus
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) sponsored gas cooperation centre working with the Syrian government has called for a review of the value of gas in the region and the completion of the much-vaunted Euro-Mashreq gas pipeline.

The 1,300 kilometre 36-inch gas pipeline, which will link Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and eventually Europe, is 60% complete.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Abu Dhabi
HOW to better regulate the popular Middle East and south Asian alternate remittance system (ARS) known as hawala, which has been linked to money laundering, organised crime and terrorist financing, was the focus of the recent Fourth International Conference on Hawala at the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Abu Dhabi.…

BY MARK GODFREY, in Beijing
CIGARETTE counterfeiters have borne the brunt of recent Chinese government efforts to curb the country’s rampant trade in fake goods. However, Beijing’s recent efforts to rationalise and modernise the country’s cigarette industry – by some measures, the world’s largest – have unwittingly aided the counterfeiters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AMERICAN clothing and textile manufacturers will be watching for any surge in South Korean exports to the USA, following the recent trade deal agreed between Washington and Seoul, and they can invoke a special safeguard, allowing tariffs to protect US production if imports of particular lines proliferate.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A UNIVERSITY of Manchester study has found that the active ingredient in many common anti-fungal drugs is effective in killing the tuberculosis bacteria, a discovery that could result in significantly reducing the number of deaths from standard TB and tackling emerging drug-resistant strains of the deadly disease.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, ALAN OSBORN and PAUL COCHRANE
WITH the European Union (EU) securing around 25% of its gas from Russia and natural gas being an ever more important fuel for thermal power plants, the failure thus far of the European Union and Russia to agree a new long-term energy agreement has to be of concern to the electricity industry.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Dubai
CURBING the counterfeiting and smuggling of established companies’ goods has become a pressing concern for international businesses wanting to protect their brands in the growing economies of the Middle East.

Although certain sectors are suffering more than others, the issue has been deemed serious enough for leading multinationals to team together last year to create a Brand Owners’ Protection Group (BPG) in the Middle East to tackle the region’s part in generating the US$500 billion global counterfeit trade.…