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BY KEITH NUTHALL and DAVE YIN

THIS has been the year where the European Union (EU) considered imposing a draconian origin labelling law that would have been a major headache for knitwear manufacturers and retailers. In the winter, the European Parliament was seriously discussing insisting on a regulation forcing knitwear and crocheted clothes and accessories imports into the EU to carry country of origin labels.…

BY MINI PANT ZACHARIAH

India’s United Breweries (UB) has told just-drinks that its planned 2011 Indian launch of Heineken is still on schedule, despite widespread reports of delays to 2012. Indian newspapers have quoted unnamed trade officials citing upgrades at UB’s Mumbai brewery as preventing planned Heineken sales from October.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE

The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) Fujairah International Airport has selected Czech Republic and Slovakia-based IT company ALES for the supply of an air traffic control system and ERA (part of American technology and systems company SRA International) for a wide area multilateration radar to fully automate the airport’s air control centre, and implement an advanced surveillance solution.…

BY GERARD O’DWYER

DENMARK’S ambition to expand what it regards as sovereign territorial rights over mineral deposits in the Arctic regions around its Greenland and Faroe Islands dependent territories is certain to interest other northern countries, including Canada, the United States and Russia.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

IT is a no-brainer that factors such as age, diet, culture, and exercise all contribute to a person’s size; however, sizing research over the years shows that there is a link between how tall or wide a person is and the decade of their formative years.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE

DUBAI International Airport (DXB), in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is planning to launch a large-scale passenger flow measurement project to track the movement and activity of passengers from the second they enter the airport complex.

From the airport’s growth statistics, it appears the trial has not come a moment too soon; DXB is one of the fastest growing airports in the world and could become the busiest in the near future.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A JOINT venture run by the United Arab Emirates’ Masdar and Abu Dhabi Gas Industries (GASCO) has registered a gas flaring reduction device with the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism. The technology will be installed at Abu Dhabi emirate’s Asab and Bab gas processing plants and create 7,770 tradeable Certified Emission Reductions annually – each representing one tonne of CO2.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE

The return of economic growth in the Middle East – especially in the Arabian Gulf region – has prompted European aviation technology company AVTECH to establish a new subsidiary in Dubai.

AVTECH Middle East LLC opened for business on May 31, 2011, after more than three years of collaborations between AVTECH Sweden AB and local United Arab Emirates (UAE) businessman Dr Mohammed bin Saeed Al Badi (SPELLING CHECKED).…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

United States House of Representatives members linked to the textile industry are urging USA Trade Representative (USTR) Ron Kirk in a letter received yesterday (June 1) to ensure an proposed expanded multi-lateral Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement does not flood American markets with Vietnamese clothing.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

ONE of the most troublesome areas highlighted by the recent decision of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to review its standards is the section covered by Recommendation 6 on ‘politically exposed persons’, or ‘PEPs’ to quote the commonly used acronym.…