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DESPITE China’s slowing economy in 2012, Chinese consumers still spent handsomely on beauty products. In December alone, for example, spending on cosmetics and personal care products (such as personal soaps, shampoo and toothpastes) increased 16% and 16.6% respectively from the same time a year ago, compared with 8.7% for clothing and 3.6% for jewelry, according to the China Nation Commercial Information Center, a Beijing-based government organisation tracking national retail statistics.…

INTERNATIONAL negotiators have concluded a global treaty aimed at reducing mercury mining, industrial use and pollution, which will be signed in Japan in October.

Following four years of talks coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the detailed convention tries to limit the exposure of humans and nature to mercury, from mining to waste disposal.…

INDIA’s auditors have had a difficult time in the court of public opinion since the revelations of the USD1 billion Satyam Computer Services scandal. A new Companies Bill might change that – although it will also inflict some pain on India’s auditors.…

NOONE has been hanged for fraud in England since 1811, but not every country is so advanced:  today the death penalty is still applied for people convicted of fraud in China, Iran and North Korea among others. And even below the ultimate sanction, deterrents to committing fraud can look frightening in many countries of the world.…

IT has been called the world’s most powerful bank. In their book ‘China’s Superbank Debt, Oil and Influence – How China Development Bank [CDB] is Rewriting the Rules of Finance’, Bloomberg journalists Henry Sanderson and Michael Forsythe describe how the “CDB’s system of local government finance has helped lift millions out of poverty and shielded the country from recession”.…

China told members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) today that it has fully complied with a WTO dispute ruling striking down Chinese export restrictions on various non-ferrous metal and inputs while officials from the United States (US), the European Union (EU) and Mexico said they were not completely satisfied with Beijing’s efforts.…

A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel has been established to rule on whether US bans on Argentine beef imports are legal under global trade laws. Argentina’s government says the restrictions are illegal under the WTO’s general agreement on tariffs and trade (GATT) and the WTO agreement on sanitary and phytosanitary measures.…

THE LEADERS of India’s 160-million plus Muslim community that dominates the country’s meat trade is complaining of persistent harassment by Hindu hardliners.

Zafarul-Islam Khan, president of the All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat (AIMMM), a Delhi-based religious organisation AIMMM, told globalmeatnews.com that on the pretext of saving cows, deemed sacred by Hindus, activists harass people working in buffalo abattoirs.…

THE USE of mercury in cosmetics and soaps will be phased out by 2020 under a global treaty aimed at reducing mercury mining, industrial use and pollution. To be signed in Japan, this October, following four years’ talks coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the convention agreed on January 19 limits the exposure of humans and nature to mercury, from mining to waste disposal.…

THE FEDERAL Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States has charged a man for participating in a conspiracy to intercept and steal USD330,000’s worth of L’Oréal haircare products. The FBI claimed the scam was an inter-state sting, with Reynaldo Tapanes, of Miami, admitting in court he conspired with others to divert a consignment of shampoo, mousse, and hair colour gels shipped from Ohio to Florida.…