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BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

THE INDIAN government appears to be reassessing its nuclear energy policy following the Fukushima disaster and violent protests in India against a proposed nuclear plant with six 1,650 MW reactors at Jaitapur, Maharashtra.

Today (April 26) the government announced it would propose a new nuclear safety law to create an autonomous nuclear regulatory body in the country and it would invite the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) operational safety review team (OSART) to help with India nuclear industry safety reviews and audits.…

BY GAVIN BLAIR

THE JAPANESE food industry is making significant progress in recovering from the fourth largest earthquake ever recorded, and the ensuing tsunami which has been measured as reaching heights of 38 metres. "The situation is changing day by day, but food processing plants are almost back to full operation and major transportation networks are already mostly normalised, although there are still problems along the coastal areas," said Taneo Moriyama, managing director of food and retail market intelligence specialist Insight Inc.…

BY GAVIN BLAIR

JAPANESE brewers are working to get disaster-affected production back online in time for the summer months, halting sales of some brands to focus on core offerings. "The Kirin Sendai plant, which was hit by the earthquake and tsunami, suffered damage to storage tanks, but we have confirmed now that the main brewing equipment is functioning," said Kan Yamamoto a spokesman at Kirin’s Tokyo headquarters.…

BY JULIAN RYALL

IN the aftermath of the worst natural disaster in living memory, with the impact of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami on Japan’s economy being assessed closely, its government is conducting a rapid rethink of its energy priorities – and that could be good news for the biofuels sector.…

BY JULIAN RYALL

NEARLY two months after northern Japan was shaken by a magnitude-9 earthquake and then inundated by a tsunami that in places reached a height of 38 metres and devastated the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the final toll has not been calculated.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

JATROPHA, regarded as a great hope for the biofuel sector in the last decade, has lately been facing negative publicity due to low economic returns and failed commercial ventures in India. In July 2009 British Petroleum (BP) quit a two year old joint venture with British biodiesel producer D1Oils plc to develop bio-diesel through jatropha cultivation, thus casting more doubts about its potential.…

BY WANG FANGQING

Major Japanese softdrinks maker Itoen is pushing into the food sector, paying Japanese Yen JPY10 billion (USD12.2 million) to fully acquire Chichiyasu, a Hiroshima-based dairy product maker. ”We hope the deal will enrich our product line to meet the increasingly diversified market,” said a Tokyo-based Itoen spokesman.…

BY JULIAN RYALL

NEARLY two months after northern Japan was shaken by a magnitude-9 earthquake and then inundated by a tsunami that in places reached a height of 38 metres and devastated a nuclear power plant, the final casualty toll has not been calculated.…

BY MARK GODFREY

THE HEADLINES said it all. Chinese newspapers have recently been heavy with editorials and op-ed pieces largely favourable to nuclear power: among them ‘This Is Not the End of Nuke Power’ a half-page op-ed in the China Daily, the preferred conduit of China’s official thinking to foreign diplomats and executives.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A WORLD Bank-administered Japan-fund is financing the development of a domestically-operated silk yarn industry in Laos, to help boost the country’s valued silk manufacturing sector. Despite making distinctive quality silks, the south-east Asian country’s silk sector imports 80-90% of its silk yarn, a problem to be tackled by a US dollar USD1.8 million Sustainable Silk Production Partnership in Rural Lao PDR [people’s democratic republic] grant.…