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BY JULIAN RYALL

JAPAN is being accused of trying to write its own official asbestos testing system into an international standard, because it knows it does not work and so will get its government off the hook for asbestos exposure cases.…

By Karryn Miller

Inter-racial marriages may be on the rise throughout Asia but they still hold a minority position. Homogenous countries like Japan and Korea are slowly adapting to the idea of mixed families but legally and socially there is room for improvement.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN ENVIRONMENTAL review of Japanese public policy by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) has said "more must be done to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and to achieve Japan’s climate targets…" The OECD noted Japan was far from its Kyoto Protocol goals, recommending a "mandatory cap-and-trade scheme in combination with a carbon tax."…

BY David Haworth

Too few universities teach about turning science into specific products to be sold on the markets and lack entrepreneurship departments which instruct ways in which ideas can be turned into money. Dr Bernd Huber, president of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, tells an audience of some 300 researchers attending a Brussels conference on the future of Europe’s science and technology.…

BY MARK GODFREY

Albert Ng, Ernst & Young

Managing partner and chairman of E&Y’s China business, Hong Kong native Albert Ng has over 25 years of professional experience in the accounting industry in China and Australia. That background will be valuable as he moves the firm on from an embarrassing settlement over its auditing of Akai Holdings, a bankrupted Chinese electronic manufacturer and retailer.…

BY HELENA FLUSFELDER, GERARD O’DWYER

A PLAN to install an electric car network has been approved by Israel’s government, making this small Middle East country a global leader in electric vehicle (EV) technology.

The project is a joint venture between Renault-Nissan, which will provide the electric vehicles, and a Silicon Valley, USA-based start-up project Better Place, which will operate the re-charging grid.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

AS the market for electric vehicles (EVs) picks up, the infrastructure for recharging them will inevitably have to keep pace – so, according to US-based consultants in global clean technology markets Pike Research (NOTE: CORRECT), there will be around 4.7 million EV charging units operating worldwide by 2015.…

BY WANG FANGQING

Japan’s Lotte Group’s new Polish subsidiary the Warsaw-based chocolate maker E.Wedel has confirmed the company is planning to expand in eastern Europe, following reports that it is to build five new plants in Poland. "With the acquisition of Wedel, the Lotte Group gained a toehold to secure production base in the European market for the future development and intends to expand this business throughout European market," Wedel’s spokesperson Marta Pokutycka-M?drala…

BY WANG FANGQING

Japan’s Morinaga &Co is to invest about Japanese Yen JPY10 billion (US dollars USD12.3 million) to build a new plant in Takasaki city, Gunma Prefecture, near Tokyo. It will replace its existing Tsukaguchi plant of Hyogo Prefecture, in southern Honshu, a major manufacturing base of Morinaga.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS, KEITH NUTHALL

THE KNITWEAR sector, especially at the higher end of the market spectrum, is a prey for organised counterfeiters. Sophisticated illicit manufacturers, especially in emerging markets, create copies of established brands, that can be high enough quality to fool, but poor enough to disappoint the consumer after a few wears.…