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BY ANDREW SALMON

TO assess the state of financial sanctions and how they are affecting Pyongyang, capital of North Korea, the first man to ask is an unassuming-looking Englishman named Nigel Cowie. "We have not been affected [by the latest sanctions] in terms of the need for increased compliance," said Cowie, CEO of Pyongyang-based Daedong Credit Bank.…

BY MARK ROWE

SEQUENCING the human genome has brought widespread interest and the potential for treatment of diseases, but confectionery industry researchers are increasingly applying this technique to key components in the food chain. One of the most high-profile sequencing programmes gathers pace this year, as Mars continues the sequencing of the cocoa genome, a project it is working on with the US department of agriculture’s subtropical horticultural research substation and IBM.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, ANCA GURZU and DAVID HAWORTH

THE CONFECTIONERY manufacturing sector in the European Union (EU) has a new political boss in the shape of Romania’s Dacian Ciolo?, who became the EU’s latest agriculture Commissioner on February 10. Appointed amidst pledges he would be willing to use EU money to guarantee food production, he has promised to undertake a swift review of the EU’s reformed sugar regime.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

FOR manufacturers of cores, chucks, shafts and their accessories, these necessary pieces of converting machinery are not just basic equipment, resistant to change or innovation. As Emma Jackson reports, manufacturers across Europe and in the US have been innovating on all fronts – making greener, more efficient systems, increasing customer convenience, and embracing stronger and more resilient materials to make sure the equipment can withstand increasingly fast-paced converting processes.…

BY MARK ROWE and KEITH NUTHALL

THE RUSSIAN government is welcoming anticipated talks with the European Union (EU) to negotiate a nuclear partnership agreement that would facilitate nuclear trade and exchange of knowledge on safety issues. The EU’s executive arm, the European Commission was given a mandate to begin talks just before Christmas, and the new college of commissioners taking office for five years this month (February) will be responsible for moving the process forward.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

THE WORDS ‘boom and bust’ are often used to describe communities involved in petroleum exploitation. When the oil flows, the local economy benefits, but when wells run dry, the wealth can disappear too. However, this tale is, thankfully, not entirely true for Pennsylvania’s Oil Region National Heritage Area (ORNHA) – the birthplace of the world’s modern petroleum industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, EMMA JACKSON and MIRIAM ELDER

THE CANADIAN government has denied using its security forces to intimidate and terrorise a Russian immigrant, who later fled to Britain and committed suicide this week, jumping with his family from a Glasgow tower block.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED States is claiming victory in a trade dispute with China, after Beijing announced it would scrap subsidies for products including a key pharmaceutical ingredient – glycerol monostearate, a solidifier and control release agent in pharmaceuticals. Washington had argued these China-christened ‘famous brands’ handouts were export subsidies banned by the World Trade Organisation (WTO).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED Nations and Brazil are helping a small west African country fight against its exposure to organised drugs crime by funding and helping manage the construction of a new police academy. Since a civil war in the late 1990s, Guinea-Bissau – a former Portuguese colony – has seen weak governments under attack from international narcotics rings.…

BY GAVIN BLAIR, FRANCES WANG, RAGHAVENDRA VERMA and KARRYN MILLER

The Asian beer market, having overtaken Europe, is now the largest in the world, according to Japanese brewery Kirin. The region accounts for 31.7% of global consumption, compared to 30.8% for Europe, claims the annual report from the Kirin Institute of Food and Lifestyle.…