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UNIVERSITIES LINK WITH INDUSTRY REGIONALLY TO BENEFIT THE COMMUNITY
BY HANA KAMARUDDIN, IN SELANGOR, MALAYSIA
UNIVERSITY partnerships with industry can be scaled up across national boundaries in a wider region to benefit communities, a conference on academic links with business and populations through Asia heard today (May 7) in Selangor, Malaysia.…
RUSSIA WTO MEMBERSHIP COULD BOOST ITS OILS AND FATS EXPORTS IN THE LONG TERM
BY MARK ROWE AND KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD’S oils and fats exporters probably drew a sigh of relief when Russia secured agreement for it to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO) last December. The country has a history of using unpredictable and, some say, arbitrary bans on food imports to punish exporting countries with which it is unhappy.…
CRACKING THE CALYPSO CONUNDRUM - CARIBBEAN STARTS TO CLEAN UP ITS ASSET PROTECTION ACT
BY ROBERT STOKES
CARIBBEAN jurisdictions are stereotypically seen as information black-holes whose minimal filing requirements for companies and trusts facilitate fraud.
Think Stanford International Bank and Westbond International Bank, two Antigua based vehicles for high-profile Ponzi schemes. Also, the Madoff scandal in the USA led to the liquidators of Fairfield Sentry – a British Virgin Islands (BVI) domiciled hedge fund that was among Madoff’s main victims – unsuccessfully trying to claim back money from investors who had legally withdrawn money from Sentry.…
EU ROUND UP - BRUSSELS PLOTS FUNDING FOR BIOREFINERIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is preparing to release calls for research proposals commanding millions of Euros of European Union (EU) funding, offering opportunities for innovative liquid fuel and oil production. The initiative is the last batch of funding under the outgoing EU seventh framework programme on research, which ends next year.…
CASE STUDY: BIODIESEL PLANT & THE ELECTRIC JEEPNEY
BY HANA KAMARUDDIN IN SELANGOR, MALAYSIA
ASIAN universities are engaged in ground-breaking projects to counter waste, boost the use of alternative fuels, and reduce emission of greenhouse gases. Researchers at the Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) have collaborated with Azhar Food Industries, both being in the Malaysian state of Johor – to install a mini biodiesel plant in the latter’s factory
Azhar Food Industries makes potato chips and crisps for the local market.…
TOXICITY ON TEXTILE FINISHING CHEMICALS MIGHT BE TESTED ON HUMAN CELLS
BY CARMEN PAUN, in Brussels
THE TOXICITY of textile finishing chemicals could be tested directly on cells of human origin in future experts have told a European Parliament hearing in Brussels. The European Commission is assessing creating a European branch of the Human Toxome Project, mirroring work developed in the United States.…
USA MINERAL EXPLOITATION BILL MUST NOT BE DELAYED IN CONGRESS SAYS ITS POLITICAL SPONSOR
BY LEAH GERMAIN
THE US House of Representatives must prioritise a new bill designed to expedite the permitting process for the American rare earth mining sector a top priority, said US Congressman Paul Gosar. Last month [May], the House of Representatives’ Natural Resources Committee passed the Natural Strategic and Critical Minerals Protection Act in a vote of 27-10 but committee members are still waiting for the bill to be introduced to the full House of Representatives.…
RARE EARTHS SPECIALISTS WELCME NEW US CLEAN ENERGY BILL
BY LEAH GERMAIN
SENIOR American industrial minerals experts have welcomed a new Senate bill that supports clean energy innovation in the United States, which in turn could lead to a significant boost to the country’s blossoming rare earth mining sector. Proposed by Senate energy and natural resources committee chairman, Democratic Senator Jeff Bingaman, the Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 would tell the country’s largest utilities to sell a certain percentage of their electricity generated by clean energy sources.…
MOROCCO'S DECORATIVE PAINTS AND COATINGS MARKET FORECAST TO GROW
BY KACI RACELMA
WHILE the majority of north African paint and coatings markets have been disrupted by the wave of political and economic unrest brought on by the ongoing Arab Spring revolution, relatively stable Morocco has generated modest growth.
The country’s paint companies predict an increase in domestic paints and coatings production and sales in 2012, following sluggish sales since the international financial crisis hit in 2008.…
EU ROUND UP - CONFECTIONERY INDISTRY FIGHT PROPOSALS TO DELAY END OF EU SUGAR QUOTAS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPE’S confectionery industry is fighting rearguard moves at the European Parliament to delay the abolition of European Union (EU) quotas on EU sugar production. A report from French conservative MEP Michel Dantin on the new EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has proposed that the quotas stay until 2020 – they are currently to be phased out by 2015.…