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BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE MULTI-BILLION dollar cosmetics and fragrances industry in the Middle East’s six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries has had a mixed few years in the wake of the global financial crisis, made more unpredictable by demographic change and purchasing behaviour shifts.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE KEY emerging technology of nanotechnology looks set to pose some tricky end-of-life questions for the packaging industry, with regulators considering legislation controlling how nano-materials are disposed of, recycled and reused.

What to do with a product and its packaging when it reaches the end of its working life attracts as much attention nowadays as its production and nanotechnology is already dramatically enhancing the recycling properties of everyday materials, and is already proving relevant to the packaging industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, EMMA JACKSON, MJ DESCHAMPS

IT is the classic chicken and egg scenario. To what extent do widespread networks of fuel filling stations need to be established offering compressed and liquefied natural gas (CNG/LNG) for a mass market of autos using these fuels to develop?…

BY MICHAEL MACKEY

A SPONSORSHIP deal with football giant Manchester United will help Boon Rawd Trading International make its Singha brand one of England’s top Asian beers, the Thai company told just-drinks. It will be the only lager-style beer sold at its Old Trafford stadium.…

BY MAKKI MARSEILLES, PAUL COCHRANE

CYPRIOTS are Europe’s heaviest smokers, according to figures from European Union (EU) pollsters Eurobarometer. For those living in the internationally recognised predominantly Greek Republic of Cyprus (RoC) portion of the island, consumption of consumers aged 15 and above during 2009 averaged 21.7 cigarettes daily, and those in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus 21.6.…

BY MARK ROWE

IN the truly global market of the paint industry, nowhere has the maxim of work local, sell local, been adhered to more rigorously than in southeast Asia. The region’s paint market is fiercely competitive, driven by developed nations such as Singapore and populous rapidly developing countries such as Indonesia and the Philippines.…

BY SHANNELLE LAMARE, KEITH NUTHALL

FOR the last five years the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), in partnership with the World Bank (WB), has been operating the Global Programme against Money Laundering (GPML) to boost Vietnam’s AML/CFT (anti-money laundering and combating financing of terrorism) systems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SIGNIFICANT benefits to tobacco and tobacco product companies will present themselves if a deal on the long-running Doha Development Round is clinched next year at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). And some diplomats at the WTO’s base in Geneva are asking if agreement is not reached next year, whether the current negotiations will be scrapped.…

BY Lawrence J. Speer

Israel may have transformed itself over the past decade into one of the world’s most vibrant economies, but innovation training is nonetheless sorely lacking in the nation’s universities, according to Milly Perry, director of The Research Authority at The Open University of Israel.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

TURKEY’S clothing and textile sector has rebounded this year on the back of strong sales to Europe and emerging markets, with clothing exports up 11% to US dollar USD9.5 billion as of August 2010, and textile exports reaching USD4.1 billion, up 23% on 2009.…