Search Results for: United Nations

SPORTS medicine has traditionally been the domain of doctors and physiotherapists. But it is not any more, experts say. Two major sporting events in Britain – the Olympics 2012 and the upcoming 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow have inspired nurses to consider working in sports.…

Leading European offshore wind companies are examining how reducing the steel in turbine foundations could help to reduce by 40% the cost of power from this renewable energy source.

Denmark’s DONG Energy revealed late last week that it has been the lead industry partner since August 1 for PISA (Pile Soil Analysis), an 18-month offshore wind cost-reduction R&D project involving an academic consortium of three leading European universities.…

The senior official at Bangladesh’s labour and employment ministry has told just-style he hopes the government’s recruitment of an additional 200 factory inspectors will hasten the planned inspection of 5,600 apparel units. Mikail Shipar, the labour and employment secretary, said he now hopes the assessments will be completed by December, maybe placating a United States administration that in June suspended some trade benefits for Bangladesh.…

When Australia’s recently deposed Prime Minister Julia Gillard decided to announce that there was to be a challenge in the ruling Labor Party on her leadership, she did it in a one-to-one interview with Sky News Australia – and not with ABC 24 News, Australia’s publicly-funded, round-the-clock news channel.…

ISLAMIC banks are big business in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, but not thus far in sub-Saharan Africa. The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC), however, recently took a USD5 million, 15% equity stake in Kenya’s Gulf African Bank (GAB) to support corporate finance and lending to small and medium businesses – its first in the sub-Saharan Islamic bank sector.…

TURKEY’S textile sector has been struggling to export its products to India, but it is finding the south Asian giant a useful source for importing dyeing and finishing machinery, yarn, fabric and cotton, industry experts have told WTiN.com.

Indian dyeing and textile finishing machinery is increasingly popular in Turkey, as its quality has risen while prices remain competitive: “In past three years we have sold 50 machines to the textile companies in Turkey,” said Mr K Venkat Reddy, managing director of Gujarat-based Kusters Calico Machinery Ltd.…

Calls to streamline and coordinate the myriad initiatives taken to prevent another factory fire or collapse in Bangladesh dominated a two-hour debate on the aftermath of the Rana Plaza disaster in April held by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development last month (June  26-7).…

CONSUMERS in Asia and the Middle East are continuing to grow the market for halal cosmetics – until now, a relatively overlooked industry in halal certification – but suppliers are struggling to keep up with demand. Meanwhile, non-Moslems in the west are starting to buy these products, attracted by their natural and mild ingredients.…

The 9.5MW J920 FleXtra gas engine formally installed in May this year by the municipal utility Stadtwerke Rosenheim, in Bavaria, Germany, ticks off a number of important innovations. The largest gas engine yet developed by the Austrian company GE Jenbacher, the unit is seen by the company as an illustration of the role distributed energy is now playing in Germany’s ‘Energiewende’ – the country’s policy to halt all nuclear power by 2022 and replace it with natural gas, renewable energy, and greater use of energy efficient technologies.…

JAPAN’S paint and coatings industry has enjoyed steady growth over the last couple of years, with demand growing both at home and abroad, although some of the biggest names in the industry here remain concerned about the longer-term outlook for the sector.…