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BY MJ DESCHAMPS, ALAN OSBORN, IN LONDON, LEE ADENDORFF, IN LUCCA, ITALY; MICHAEL KOSMIDES, IN ATHENS; DAVID HAYHURST, IN PARIS; ANDREW KURETH, IN WARSAW; AND JOHN PAGNI, IN HELSINKI

THE POTENTIAL of micro-CHP (combined heat-and-power) for industrial businesses, residential complexes and individual homes is becoming increasingly clear across Europe.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, IN TOKYO

Masumi Natsusaka has global ambitions for Kanebo Cosmetics Inc., where he assumed the company’s presidency in June. And he has told Soap Perfumery & Cosmetics that he is impatient for brands that have previously only been for selected foreign and domestic markets to evolve into truly global brands developed to directly meet the needs of a new generation of consumers around the world.…

BY ALAN OSBORN AND KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) steel industry hopes that the proposed free trade agreement between the EU and Japan could open up Japan’s notoriously tough non-tariff barriers to steel imports. In announcing the start of negotiations this week (Thursday) the European Commission said it had set "a very ambitious agenda covering all EU market access priorities."…

BY ALAN OSBORN AND KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) meat industry federation believes that a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) with Japan, whose talks were authorised last week (Thursday), could safeguard and could even increase Europe’s share of the Japanese pork market.…

BY WANG FANGQING, IN SHANGHAI

Suntory’s Pepsi Special

Category – soft drink, Japan

Available – From November 13

Location: Japanese retailers

Price: JPY150 (USD1.90) per bottle (490ml)

Distribution-Suntory Holdings Limited

Suntory has introduced a Pepsi Special (PS) product in Japan to meet the growing demand for healthy foods in this market.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, IN TOKYO

THE JAPANESE government has signalled that it will relax its rules on beef imports in the early part of 2013.

After hearing the opinions of a 13-strong expert panel, ministers said they would raise the age limit on livestock used to source beef imports to 30 months from the present 20 months.…

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 CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS

THE EUROPEAN automotive industry has welcomed a ground-breaking initiative announced today by the European Union’s (EU) executive that future planned EU free trade agreements would be assessed for their potential damage to Europe’s auto sector, before negotiations begin in earnest.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

THE INCREASING use of broadband-connected devices has led to exponential growth in mobile subscriptions and data traffic, and has also challenged operators, especially in providing improved customer experience regarding speed, coverage and availability.

So, with operators now moving beyond 2G and 3G networks, and towards 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) systems -to keep up with the scale of capacity and coverage – the trend towards implementing self-organising networks (SON) is also growing, with promises to speed up network deployment dramatically, while reducing operational efforts.…

BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) auto sector risks experiencing the meltdown that hit the American industry in 2008-9 if EU political institutions keep imposing detailed new regulations and free trade deals, Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne told a Brussels conference yesterday.…