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UNTIL now, much of Russia’s exploitation of lucrative Siberian gas and oil deposits has targeted the western sectors of this vast region, rather than the central heartlands or the distant east. The reasons are clear enough, as the abundant fields of western Siberia have fed strong demand from Europe.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

IF a man can make a better mousetrap than his neighbour, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, the American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson was (erroneously) quoted as having written in the nineteenth century. Solar power researchers in the USA and Canada claim to have built not just one, but two better ‘mousetraps’ by coming up with a paradigm-shifting approach to improving both the electrical and thermal efficiencies of thin-film hybrid photovoltaic thermal (PV/T) devices.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, IN MONTRÉAL

It is commonsense that a proper flight plan will take account, not only of the three dimensions in which a plane moves through the air, but also its speed – and the resulting time by which it should arrive from A to B.…

BY MARK GAO, IN BEIJING

A less than flattering catch-call has lately become attached to China’s Communist Party elite: ‘Luoguan’, literally "naked officials", refers to officials whose spouses and children have migrated to another country, spending Chinese money abroad, some of it dirty, or transferred illicitly.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

FOR multinational businesses, comprehensive and precise financial reporting is critical for a company’s success, and such good practice is also essential for companies striving for profits within emerging markets.

Earlier this year, the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) released a report ‘Being the Change: Inspiring the Next Generation of Inclusive Business Entrepreneurs Impacting the Base of the Pyramid’, which highlights the IFC’s ‘inclusive business models’ strategy.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, IN TOKYO

Masumi Natsusaka has global ambitions for Kanebo Cosmetics Inc., where he assumed the company’s presidency in June. And he has told Soap Perfumery & Cosmetics that he is impatient for brands that have previously only been for selected foreign and domestic markets to evolve into truly global brands developed to directly meet the needs of a new generation of consumers around the world.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A CLEARING house sharing safety information on civil aviation within the United States has been created by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), airlines and aviation labour unions. They will work with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to share summarised safety data through the USA Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing (ASIAS) Executive Board.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Medicines Agency (EMA) has launched a formal investigation into Roche Registration Ltd, probing allegations that the company failed to comply with pharmacovigilance obligations in relation to 19 EMA-approved medicines. The concern is that Roche did not alert EU regulators to data collected on patients using these medicines that could have thrown light on their safety.…

BY CARMEN PAUN IN BRUSSELS

THE EUROPEAN Commission is hoping that the recent overhaul of the European Union’s (EU) Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) will increase the flow of rare earth metals and aluminium oxide into the EU. Concerns persist about supplies of these important industrial minerals.…

BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS

THERE are no reasons for the European Union to restrict or even ban the use of crystalline silica or talc in workplaces across Europe, Michelle Wyart-Remy, secretary general of Industrial Minerals Association Europe (IMA-Europe) has said.…