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China’s move to elevate its State Food & Drug Administration (SFDA) to a ministry level entity aims to consolidate oversight of food safety issues under one umbrella and convince consumers the government is serious about tackling the country’s food safety problems. …

French branded food giant Danone has introduced a second infant formula brand to China, targeting its soaring imported infant formula demand. Aside from maternity stores, Danone has made Nutrilon available at Tmall, a business-to-consumer site run by China’s largest online shopping platform Taobao. …

EUROPEAN clothing suppliers flocked to this year’s Intertextile Beijing Apparel Fabrics 2013 show to explore China-based sales, but told just-style of concerns that excess domestic inventory might impede export sales in this key emerging market. This year’s show at the China International Exhibition Centre was notable for a year-on-year 36% rise in European exhibitors, including a similar expansion of companies exhibiting at the pavilion operated by Italian textile producer organisation Milano Unica.…

Emerging markets, with their major outsourcing sectors, offer an excellent marketplace for operational software vendors.

This is especially the case as American and European markets mature.

In China, textile and clothing manufacturers are not known for their heavy IT investment, but the financial crisis of 2008 has slowly pushed them into adopting management software such as ERP and PLM to cut costs through optimising their operations, said Patrick Hu, sales director at the Huansi International Group, a Hong Kong-based software vendor specifically targeting Chinese manufacturers.…

THE SINGAPORE government’s much lauded change of gears from running an economy known for its efficiency to one where innovation also plays a key role has been illustrated in a new education services export initiative, targeted at China.

The city state’s trade promotion agency IE Singapore (IE for international enterprise) signed in January a memorandum of understanding with seven local leading training and educational institutes and universities to form what it calls a Singapore Talent Development Alliance (STDA).…

A REGULATION aimed at ensuring the rollout of broadband networks across the European Union (EU) is achieved more cheaply and swiftly has been proposed by the European Commission. It tries to force member states to ensure new buildings are broadband ready, while telling incumbent telcos to give access to their physical networks to broadband service providers.…

China’s automobile industry analysts are assessing the impact of the country’s State Council (cabinet) last month deciding to swiftly impose the new China V emissions standard for vehicles in the capital Beijing.

It already applies to new diesel vehicles sold or registered in the city (from February 1), with gas counterparts set to follow suit as of March 1. …

Revised emissions caps imposed by China’s ministry of environmental protection on iron and steel-making projects will probably result in further consolidation of small works and mills, analysts have told Steel First.

These new standards, which came into force for new projects on March 1 and also apply to five other heavily polluting industries, will be enforced in 47 cities nationwide, according to a ministry note.  …

Money laundering takes place in the arts world and much of it at auctions, only the arts world doesn’t like to talk about it much. And anti-money laundering (AML) experts understand the methods used. At a Paris conference held last February (2012) by the Syndicat National des Antiquaires (the French national union of antique dealers) the director of the l’Institut de Criminologie de Paris, Philippe Conte, explained how launderers would put a work up for auction, to be bought by an accomplice in cash using dirty money.…

IF there is one crime condemned worldwide it is the sale and smuggling of counterfeit medicines. Sometimes close copies and sometimes dangerous substances – this crime kills on a grand scale.

Counting the number of its victims accurately is difficult, because of the subversive nature of the trade, but some think-tanks have tried.…