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BY MARK GODFREY

CHINA poses tricky challenges for personal care product packaging executives. While the country’s mass market is often influenced by fads – such as a current green-is-good phase – its consumers are suspicious of manufacturers and want to be reassured about quality.…

BY JULIAN RYALL

UNIQLO thinks big, talks big and has big ambitions – and analysts believe the company does indeed have what it takes to become the biggest clothing retailer in the world within the next decade.

It will clearly face a series of obstacles on its way to that title.…

BY WANG FANGQING

IN July, the monthly export value of textile and garments from China hit a record new US dollar USD25.9 billion, up 25% year-on-year, according to China Customs. It was not a surprise given that China earned USD122.7 billion in the first half (H1) of 2011, almost equivalent to the whole amount it made in 2005.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

IN the event of a mining accident, first responders trying to rescue trapped miners are usually thrown into dangerous – and sometimes deadly – situations. With this in mind, robotics engineers worldwide are beginning to develop both remotely controlled and autonomous machines to help eliminate some of the dangers of mining operations and rescues.…

BY MARK ROWE

WANTED: experienced, international oil majors to overhaul overlooked and possibly underplayed reserves in the Caspian. Apply to the government of Turkmenistan. An announcement to that effect emerged over the summer by the Turkmenistan government, in a move that suggested that the gas-rich country was finally looking to establish the depth of its oil reserves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has requested information from nine oil and gas fracking service companies about the construction, design and operation of 350 oil and gas wells that were hydraulically fractured from 2009 to 2010.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

INTELLIGENCE agencies by their very nature are secretive. So too are budgetary expenses and the ways in which agencies finance operations, especially in foreign jurisdictions and where they carry out so-called ‘black ops’. The techniques to quietly transfer funds do not in fact differ that widely from organised crime or terrorist groups, using banking services, front companies, charities and the like.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

FINANCIAL fraud in India is just as common as other countries with a fast emerging economy; however, it is the attitude of Indian companies’ management towards fraud detection and follow-up actions that hinders the detection of fraudsters in India.…

BY MARK ROWE and MJ DESCHAMPS

IN Russia, politics is everything, and politics invariably means what the state’s two figureheads – Dmitri Medvedev, the president, and Vladimir Putin, former president and prime minister – determine.

So when noises are heard coming from the Kremlin signalling a change in attitude towards green energy, the wise betting is that there is political weight behind such moves.…

BY MARK GODFREY

ALTHOUGH it has two reactors generation 5% of its electricity needs, South Africa is, like China, a developing country where energy needs exceed capacity. China’s emerging nuclear power giant China Guangdong Nuclear Power Co (CGNPC) has been trying to persuade Johannesburg officials to install its ‘CPR1000-plus’ reactors, derived from French technology.…