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BY JULIAN RYALL, IN TOKYO

THE JAPANESE government is staging a diplomatic campaign aimed at boosting its beef exports worldwide, through securing international recognition for its beef as having "negligible risk" of BSE. It has already filed an application with the Office International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation to confirm the safety of Japanese beef when it next general session meets in May.…

BY MARCAS GAO, IN TIANJIN

The chief of one of China’s most ambitious beef processing companies has told globalmeatnews.com how his plans are being frustrated by a shortage of cattle, even as demand for beef surges in the country’s urban centres.…

BY ANDREW GREEN, IN KAMPALA; AND BILLCORCORAN, IN CAPE TOWN

THE TRIPLING in the size of Africa’s middle class over the last 30 years to what the African Development Bank estimates is now 313 million people coupled with increased urbanisation, are driving the growth of the continent’s cosmetics industry and markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s energy committee has rejected attempts to introduce a moratorium on offshore gas drilling in the Arctic, overruling a contrary vote by the EP’s environment committee last month. Instead, the committee proposed new amendments to a proposed law on European Union (EU) oil and gas exploration, ensuring that companies have ‘adequate financial security’ to cover liabilities from any drilling accidents in all EU waters.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN

THE CHINESE government is fighting a fresh major outbreak of avian influenza virus H5N1 in southern China, according to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). It says the outbreak was first reported on September 11 at a duck farm in the city of Zhanjiang, in Guangdong province.…

BY WANG FANGQING IN SHANGHAI

China’s clothing and textile industry – already undermined by rising costs and competitors snapping at its heels – is especially vulnerable to fallout from a World Trade Organisation dispute (WTO) brought last week by Mexico.

It claims that Chinese government subsidies and tax-breaks for its textile and clothing sector break WTO agreements – and if a disputes settlement panel, Beijing will be under pressure to end these.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

UTILITIES in Australia and the European Union (EU) could soon be allowed to buy and sell carbon units from each other’s emissions trading system (ETS). A proposed mutual recognition arrangement between the Australian government’s ETS and the EU-ETS is expected to benefit industries on both sides of the globe and to lower carbon prices long-term.…

BY LEE ADENDOORF, IN LUCCA; MINI PANT ZACHARIAH, IN MUMBAI; WANG FANGQING, IN SHANGHAI; AND LEAH GERMAIN

DESPITE the financial storm clouds that have disrupted Europe’s economy over the past few years, the continent’s luxury apparel sector has proved remarkably resilient, with global demand for their products rising.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF, IN ITALY

WHILE trade fairs remain the primary channel for finding suppliers for any kind of fabric, the sourcing of luxury fabrics and fibres has seen a small revolution over the last decade – thanks in large part to the development of web-based technologies that have integrated face-to-face contact with online services.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, IN NEW DELHI

"A NEW and superior urban form of living," is how India’s first airport city, Durgapur Aertropolis, in West Bengal, is being defined by its promoter and main contractor, Changi Airports India Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Singapore-based Changi Airport International.…