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BY LEE ADENDOORF, ALYSSA MCMURTRY, MAKKI MARSEILLES, and KEITH NUTHALL

GLOBAL olive oil manufacturing is on a roll, with the International Olive Council (IOC) saying 2009-10 world production was 3.02 million tonnes, a season-on-season increase of 354,500 tonnes (+13%). This would be the second best olive oil production year ever, next only to the record of 3.17 million tonnes produced in 2003/04.…

BY JULIAN RYALL

THE GOVERNMENT and private sector in Japan are amongst the strongest supporters of environment-friendly technologies and initiatives, and this include the civil aviation industry. In January 2009, a Japan Airlines (JAL) Boeing 747-400 was one of the first in the world to carry out a successful test flight using a biofuel made primarily out of non-food energy crop camelina – yet the country lags behind in the development of biofuels and, consequently, discussions on the large-scale introduction of green fuels and what that will mean for Japan’s airports.…

BY WANG FANGQING

Major Japanese brewer Kirin Brewery Company is to test the American market its non-alcoholic beer ‘Free’ in March. Priced between US dollars USD3 to USD5 per bottle (334ml), ‘Free’ will be initially sold in over 1,000 restaurants in west coast cities, notably Los Angeles, with motorists a key target.…

BY KENCHO WANGDI

HYDRO-ELECTRIC power is of critical importance to the tiny landlocked nation Bhutan, hidden deep in the folds of the Himalayas, with economic and military giants China to the north and India to the south. Indeed, its government regards hydropower energy as being instrumental in shifting the country from being recognised by the United Nations as a least developed into an emerging developing country in the south-east Asia.…

BY GEORGE STONE

MOZAMBIQUE expects to start exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) in 2018 after major gas finds by Milan-based Eni and American firm Anadarko Petroleum in the waters of the Rovuma basin in the north of the country. The finds mean Mozambique is on course to be a leading LNG supplier to Asia, particularly Japan and rival the region’s leading gas exporters Nigeria and Angola.…

BY MARK ROWE

Czech government pushes aggressively against high smoking rates

The Czech government is using tax increases and smoking restrictions to reduce smoking. It has particular concern about high youth smoking rates. However, the Czech Republic remains a stable and high value market for tobacco majors.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, BY VÉRONIQUE NARAME AND BY SEYDOU TRAORÉ

North Africa’s tobacco market opens to the world

North Africa’s tobacco markets have long been dominated by state-run companies and monopolies. But change has slowly come to the region through increased economic liberalisation, enabling international brands to gain market share.…

BY WANG FANGQING

AS e-commerce continues to boom in China, increasingly Chinese women are buying their favourite beauty products online. Internet sales of beauty and personal care products in China reached (China Yuan Renminbi) CNY1.3 billion (US dollars USD195.3 million) in 2010, and are expected to double in 2015, according to London-based research firm Euromonitor International.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

Kurdish Iraq tobacco market is Middle East black market hub

International tobacco companies entered Kurdish Iraq after the US-led invasion. But political instability has made this a tough market to operate in. Black market trades thrive. And there are a wide variety of brands from around the world available.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

ATTEMPTING to symbolize the Indian essence of Toyota’s latest sedan made for India’s burgeoning auto market, a Japanese dancer performed classical Indian dance at a special launch concert in the IT hub of Bangalore. The Japanese auto giant will be hoping that the ‘Etios’ will marry high tech and Indian consumer preferences, as a culmination of a four-year-long development process that cost US dollars USD700 million and involved more than 2,000 engineers.…