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BY ROBERT STOKES, IN MALAGA

SPAIN is agog at a wave of high-profile arrests in the busting of a Chinese-run money laundering ring estimated to have involved Euro EUR1.2 billion of dirty money. A key aim of the investigation was to stop the economy being distorted by the sale of cheap, fake designer goods through Chinese bazaars.…

BY MARK GODFREY

FOR sellers of eco-friendly automotive coatings in China, the future is looking bright: sales of 10 million cars a year are predicted to 2030, the Chinese government’s current 12th Five-Year Plan has not only given auto coatings special attention, it marks new materials and green cars as two of seven emerging industries that are garnering government favourtism.…

BY MARK GODFREY, IN BEIJING

FOR sellers of eco-friendly automotive coatings in China, the future is looking bright: sales of 10 million cars a year are predicted to 2030, the Chinese government’s current 12th Five-Year Plan has not only given auto coatings special attention, it marks new materials and green cars as two of seven emerging industries that are garnering government favourtism.…

COGENERATION, or rather trigeneration, units that cooled, heated and powered the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games won plaudits if no gold medals for the manufacturer – America’s GE – but neatly symbolised the spread of CHP into mainstream and niche applications.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN, CARMEN PAUN AND KEITH NUTHALL

PART I: Air Quality and Congestion

SWITZERLAND has always been a land of contrasts – Europe’s mountain hub has always combined an international outlook with intensely local democratic structures based on the country’s 26 cantons – and road transport policy is no different.…

BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS

THE EUROPEAN Commission, the European Union’s (EU) executive body, is handicapping Europe’s automotive sector with unrealistic carbon reduction demands, while risking more mid-market import competition with free trade deals, the chief of Europe’s auto industry has warned.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

Finally, the potential of small and packaged (as well as micro) CHP schemes to contribute to demand-supply balancing or to ‘virtual power plant’ networks of smaller units interconnected by electronic communications opens up the prospect of exciting new markets for seasoned technologies with added features that fit them for this emerging world.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

SLATED to be one of the fastest growing connectivity sectors over the next decade, the space for machine-to-machine (M2M) systems is evolving rapidly. The increasing ability to exchange key information and data between devices communicating end-to-end without human intervention is making it possible for operators to reduce costs, and improve efficiency and services to customers.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, IN KATO CITY, HYOGO PREFECTURE, JAPAN

JAPAN this week engaged with China at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over its restrictions on Chinese rare earth exports, but a Japanese electronics giant is taking matters into its own hands, with a major urban mining project.…

BY JONATHAN DYSON, IN BOLIVIA

THE INDUSTRIAL production of lithium carbonate and lithium-ion batteries in Bolivia has moved a step closer following the formation of a joint venture between Bolivia’s state-owned mining corporation Comibol and a South Korea consortium led by the country’s state-run mineral development corporation Korea Resources Corp.…