Search Results for: United Nations

BY WANG FANGQING

INDONESIA’S paint and coating market is expected to grow 10% from 2011 to 2012 after a previous average annual growth of 8% between 2006 and 2011.With the strong recovery from the recession in the domestic economy, the market – with an estimated value of US dollars USD1.1 billion – will grow robustly in the following years, according to market research company Frost & Sullivan.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) and the Indonesian government have launched a project to boost energy efficiency in the key Java tourist zone of Pangandaran. It includes introducing energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies in hotels and public buildings; integrating low-carbon goals into planning; plus seminars and workshops on energy efficiency.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LITTLE more excites the international auto industry more than the search for an alternative to fossil fuels, and an American company is now looking seriously into the idea of using a heavy element thorium to generate locomotive power.…

BY MONIKA HANLEY, LEE ADENDORFF, MARK ROWE, ALAN OSBORN, MINDY RAN, GERARD O’DWYER and MARTINA MARECKOVA

FOR an industry that generates energy, heat and maybe cooling, the European cogeneration sector has been operating on a decidedly low output in recent years.…

BY MARK ROWE

CO-GENERATION (or combined-heat and power – CHP) plants operate using a variety of technologies: gas turbines, fuel cells, Stirling engines, gas or diesel engines and combined cycle gas turbines. According to the Joint Research Centre (JRC) – the European Union’s (EU) scientific and technical research body – natural gas is currently the preferred fuel across Europe for co-gen, with combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) and gas turbine plants expected to become the predominant future technology for large-scale units.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

THE UNITED States garment industry is supporting a "yarn forward" rule of origin proposed by the US Trade Representative (USTR) during the latest round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement negotiations. Both the US and Vietnam want to join the TPP trade agreement, which currently includes Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore.…

BY MARK ROWE

SUPERFICIALLY at least, it sounds like an unlikely scenario: Russia, the 21st century’s face of fossil fuel sources, now wants to go green. The Russian Energy Agency last spring signed an agreement committing itself to help the country improve energy efficiency in industry and housing; develop a renewable energy market; and – the end goal – reduce greenhouse gas emissions.…

BY MARK ROWE

IT has to be the worst nightmare for professional nursing ethics imaginable. You work in a private clinic. And an armed group is harvesting organs from corpses who have died at the clinic. You may suspect they were actually killed so those organs can be removed, which means your own life could be at risk if you kick up a fuss.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

INDIA’S textiles ministry’s top official Rita Menon has predicted at a conference of Indian clothing exporters the country’s garment exports would rise to US dollars USD14 billion for the year to March 2012, 26% higher than the previous year.…

BY SERAJ ELALEM and JOSH MULL

ON February 17 as Libya’s revolt against the regime of Col Muamar Gaddafi began, Judith San Pedro, 52, reported to work as head nurse in the intensive care unit of Al-Jala Hospital in Benghazi, Libya.…